Young people in Europe

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.

Introduction Jacques van Hoof and Harriet Bradley; Part I: The reconstruction of youth citizenship: Youth in the labour market: citizenship or exclusion? - Herwig Reiter and Gary Craig; Social protection policies for young people: a cross-national comparison - Gill Jones; Part II: Changing labour markets: Inclusion and exclusion: Young people and their contemporary market values - Wim Plug and Manuela Du Bois-Reymond; Youth unemployment and job-seeking behaviour in Europe: - Jose Luis Alvaro and Alicia Garrido; Winners and losers: young people in the 'new economy' - Harriet Bradley; Young people in the labour market in Hungary and Slovenia: problems and perspectives - Klara Foti, Martina Trbanc, Miroljub Ignjatovic; Excluded youth or young citizens? Ethnicity, young people and the labour market in three EU countries - Gary Craig, Hans Dietrich and Jerome Gautie; Activation or alienation? Youth unemployment within different European welfare communities - Jan Carle and Torild Hammer; Part III: Policy options: Vocational education and the integration of young people in the labour market: the case of the Netherlands - Jacques van Hoof; Young people's transitions between education and the labour market: the Italian case - Francesca Bianchi; Integration into work through active labour market policies in different welfare state regimes - Ira Malmberg-Heimonen and Ilse Julkenen; Conclusion: Fractured transitions: the changing context of young people's labour market situations in Europe - Harriet Bradley and Jacques van Hoof.