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Research in Social Change
Volume 12 (2020): Issue 2 (May 2020)
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Is youth unemployment in EU countries structural?
Darka Podmenik
Darka Podmenik
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Maruša Gorišek
Maruša Gorišek
| Jul 21, 2021
Research in Social Change
Volume 12 (2020): Issue 2 (May 2020)
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Published Online:
Jul 21, 2021
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2478/rsc-2020-0010
© 2020 Darka Podmenik, Maruša Gorišek, published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Figure 1
Comparison of the average job vacancy rate and youth unemployment rate (15–29 years) in the EU, 2008–2018Source: Eurostat database 2020
Figure 2
Structural youth unemployment trend in selected EU countries (for which long-term data are available), 2008–2018, %, Comparison of the Job Vacancy Rate The job vacancy rate (JVR) is the number of job vacancies expressed as a percentage of the sum of the number of occupied posts and the number of job vacancies. (JVR) and Youth Unemployment Rate The unemployment rate (YU) is the number of unemployed persons as a percentage of the economically active population (the total number of people employed and unemployed = the labor force) based on the International Labor Office (ILO) definition. (YUR) in Index= YUR/JVRSource: Eurostat database 2020
Figure 3/1
Youth unemployment (15–29 years), unemployment rates (in %), 1996–2018, six Northern and Western EU countries
Figure 3/2
Youth unemployment (15–29 years), unemployment rates (in %), 1996–2018, southern EU countries
Figure 3/3
Youth unemployment (15–29 years), unemployment rates (in %), 1996–2018, Eastern EU countriesSource: Eurostat database 2020
Figure 4
Long-term youth (un)employment’s interconnectedness with social sub-systems
Figure 5
Perception of people’s lives by age group Percentage of people noting they are happy or very happy in their lives and percentage of people who evaluated their life satisfaction and control over their own lives with numbers 7, 8, 9, or 10 (on a scale 1–10 where 1 means dissatisfied/no control at all and 10 means satisfied/a great deal of control).Source: European Values Survey 2017