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Five Characteristics of Youth Unemployment in Europe: Flexibility, Education, Migration, Family Legacies, and EU Policy
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O'Reilly, Jacqueline; Eichhorst, Werner; Gábos, András; Hadjivassiliou, Kari; Lain, David; Leschke, Janine; McGuinness, Seamus; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Nazio, Tiziana; Ortlieb, Renate; Russell, Helen; Villa, Paola – SAGE Open, 2015
Current levels of youth unemployment need to be understood in the context of increased labor market flexibility, an expansion of higher education, youth migration, and family legacies of long-term unemployment. Compared with previous recessions, European-wide policies and investments have significantly increased with attempts to support national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unemployment, Youth, Labor Market
Occupation Structure and Career Choice vs Education Development and Training Level: A Presentation of Theoretical Approaches
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Pafili, Efrosini; Mylonakis, John – International Education Studies, 2011
The employment of individuals, in all societies and all times, was the focal point of social structures. The economic theory provides the ability to understand the economic laws that are running in a society and gives us much knowledge how to significantly alter the economic structure of society or to bring about the desired changes. There is a…
Descriptors: Social Structure, Career Choice, Educational Development, Educational Attainment
The Relation between Unequal Access to Higher Education and Labour-market Structure: The Case of Greece.
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Gouvias, Dionysios – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1998
Provides an overview of the inequalities of access to higher education in Greece at the national level showing patterns of differentiation between the scientific disciplines and between occupations in the labor market. Offers the "Indices of Educational Opportunities" to show the patterns of student distribution in universities and other…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Degrees (Academic), Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change
Going Away to College and Wider Urban Job Opportunities Take Highly Educated Youth Away from Rural Areas.
Gibbs, Robert M. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1995
Rural high school graduates are less likely to graduate from college than their urban counterparts, mostly because they are less likely to attend college. Half of rural college attendees leave home and do not return by age 25. Those that do return are drawn largely by home ties and intervening life choices rather than local job opportunities.…
Descriptors: College Attendance, College Graduates, College Students, Educational Attainment
Econometric Investigations of Determinants and Returns to Schooling, Training, and Experience. Final Report.
Griliches, Zvi; Freeman, Richard – 1977
A set of three studies focused primarily on an indepth analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey ("Parnes") data tapes, concentrating particularly on the experience of young men and young women, but collating them also with data on experience and background of other family members available in the parallel surveys. Research was…
Descriptors: Blacks, College Graduates, Cross Sectional Studies, Educational Background
Securing the Future: Investing in Children from Birth to College. The Ford Foundation Series on Asset Building.
Danziger, Sheldon, Ed.; Waldfogel, Jane, Ed. – 2000
Noting that the human capital of a nation is a primary determinant of its strength, this book reviews what is known about the processes that affect child development and how public and private investments in children might be increased to promote their well-being and to enhance the economic productivity of the next generation in America. Based on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Development