Young people in Europe : labour markets and citizenship / / edited by Harriet Bradley and Jacques van Hoof

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824532503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol, UK, : Policy, 2005
• ISBN: 1-4473-0437-3; 1-281-15955-7; 9786611159559; 1-84742-125-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Altri autori (Persone): BradleyHarriet; HoofJ. J. B. M. van
• Disciplina: 362.94
• Soggetti: Youth - Employment - Europe; Youth - Services for - Europe; Youth - Europe - Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jan 2022).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; YOUNG PEOPLE IN EUROPE - Labour markets and citizenship; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction; The structure of the book; Part One: The reconstruction of youth citizenship; ONE - Youth in the labour market: citizenship or exclusion?; TWO - Social protection policies for young people: a cross-national comparison; Part Two: Changing labour markets: inclusion and exclusion; THREE - Young people and their contemporary labour market values; FOUR - Youth unemployment and job-seeking behaviour in Europe; FIVE - Winners and losers: young people in the 'new economy'SIX - Young people in the labour market in Hungary and Slovenia: problems and perspectives; SEVEN - Excluded youth or young citizens? Ethnicity, young people and the labour market in three EU countries; EIGHT - Activation or alienation: youth unemployment within different European welfare communities; Part Three: Policy options; NINE - Vocational education and the integration of young people in the labour market: the case of the Netherlands; TEN - Young people's transitions between ; education and the labour market: the Italian case; ELEVEN - Integration into work through active labour market policies in different welfare state regimesCONCLUSION - Fractured transitions: the changing context of young people's labour market situations in Europe; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In a period of rapid social and economic change, labour markets are undergoing major transformations. This book explores the changing fortunes of young people in Europe's flexible and precarious labour markets, and the range of policies that are being developed to help them deal with the problems they face.