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The Role of the Welfare State for NEETs: Exploring the Association between Public Social Spending and NEET in European Countries
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Minjong Youn; Chungseo Kang – SAGE Open, 2023
This study explores the role of the welfare state in reducing young people not being in education, employment, or training (NEET)s across 15 European countries. Using data from the Survey of Adult Skills in the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) in combination with the Social Expenditure Database, we conducted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Welfare Services, Young Adults, Out of School Youth
Socioeconomic Status, Economic Deprivation, and School Misconduct: An Inquiry into the Role of Academic Self-Efficacy in Four European Cities
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Demanet, Jannick; Van Houtte, Mieke – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
Strain theories expect socio-economically disadvantaged students to be overrepresented among perpetrators of school-deviant behavior. Empirical research, however, is inconclusive about the SES-deviance relationship. Recently, strain theorists argued that economic deprivation, rather than a socio-economic status (SES) index is related to…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Disadvantaged Youth, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior
Intercultural Competence for Youth Workers
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Dixon, Daniel; Tahmaz, Onur – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Intercultural Competence for Youth workers (ICY) was a project co-funded by the European Union Erasmus+ programme that ran for 14 months, from spring 2019 to spring 2020, and involved four organisations from Finland, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Engaging youth workers and young people with fewer opportunities, the project helped youth…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Youth Programs, Athletics, Computer Mediated Communication
In Which Countries and Schools Do Disadvantaged Students Succeed? PISA in Focus. No. 80
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OECD Publishing, 2018
PISA 2015 data show that, on average across OECD countries, as many as three out of four students from the lowest quarter of socio-economic status reach, at best, only the baseline level of proficiency (Level 2) in reading, mathematics or science. While in Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong (China), Ireland, Japan, Korea, the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Long and Winding Roads: Educational Decision-Making of Youngsters at Risk of Early School Leaving in Flanders
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Van Praag, Lore; Boone, Simon; Van Caudenberg, Rut; Nouwen, Ward; Timmerman, Christiane – Educational Studies, 2020
Increasing numbers of youngsters are at risk of early school leaving. In this study, we examine educational decision-making of inner-city youth during their educational trajectories and how this could contribute to the decision to leave school without an educational qualification. Based on interviews with 34 youngsters in a Flemish city (Antwerp,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, At Risk Students, Foreign Countries, Educational Attitudes
How Do Schools Affect Inequalities in Political Participation: Compensation of Social Disadvantage or Provision of Differential Access?
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Deimel, Daniel; Hoskins, Bryony; Abs, Hermann J. – Educational Psychology, 2020
Both direct and indirect influences have been assumed to impact the transmission of political orientations within families. A lower socioeconomic status is related to lower intended political participation of adolescents. Within this context, schools play a crucial role in political socialisation, as citizenship education is assumed to either…
Descriptors: School Role, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Socialization