Youth Work Market and Employment Policies

Abstract

The youth unemployment rate is one of the most distinctive characteristics of the new situation that most industrialized economies have known since 1973. In the present article we will discuss the causes and consequences of the worst situation the youth is enduring on the work market. The causes are to be found in the general economic situation as well as in the work market rather than in the individual characteristics of the young. The consequences influence the concept of youth itself as well as the idea of integration of this youth into society. We will also discuss the philosophy on which the youth politics are based.