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Is youth unemployment in EU countries structural?

Darka Podmenik

Darka Podmenik

Institute for developmental and strategic analysisLjubljana, Slovenia
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Maruša Gorišek

Maruša Gorišek

Institute for developmental and strategic analysisLjubljana, Slovenia
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Jul 21, 2021
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Published Online: Jul 21, 2021
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rsc-2020-0010
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Comparison of the average job vacancy rate and youth unemployment rate (15–29 years) in the EU, 2008–2018Source: Eurostat database 2020
Comparison of the average job vacancy rate and youth unemployment rate (15–29 years) in the EU, 2008–2018Source: Eurostat database 2020

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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
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

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Youth unemployment (15–29 years), unemployment rates (in %), 1996–2018, six Northern and Western EU countries
Youth unemployment (15–29 years), unemployment rates (in %), 1996–2018, six Northern and Western EU countries

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Youth unemployment (15–29 years), unemployment rates (in %), 1996–2018, southern EU countries
Youth unemployment (15–29 years), unemployment rates (in %), 1996–2018, southern EU countries

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Youth unemployment (15–29 years), unemployment rates (in %), 1996–2018, Eastern EU countriesSource: Eurostat database 2020
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
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
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
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