Youth Unemployment in Mediterranean Countries

Werner Eichhorst and Franziska Neder ()
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Franziska Neder: IZA

No 80, IZA Policy Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: In all Mediterranean countries youth unemployment has reached alarming record levels. This paper analyses the current situation in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. In all countries school dropout rates are high, returns to education are low and the transition from education to work is problematic and difficult. This is due to a poor working vocational training system, the dualization of the labor market and minimum wages that are set too high. The Great Recession deteriorated the situation of young people, but youth unemployment is mostly structural. To overcome this crisis the overall performance of the labor market has to be improved.

Keywords: youth unemployment; Mediterranean countries; Europe; vocational training (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J23 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2014-03
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Published - published in: IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2014, 265-271

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