Youth Labor in Transition

Exacerbated by the Great Recession youth transitions to employment and adulthood have become increasingly protracted precarious and differentiated by gender ethnicity and socioeconomic status. <em>Youth Labor in Transition</em> examines young people's integration into employment alongside the decisions and consequences of migrating to find work and later returning home. The authors identify key policy challenges for the future related to NEETS overeducation self-employment and ethnic differences in outcomes. This illustrates the need to encompass a wider understanding of youth employment and job insecurity by including an analysis of economic production and how it relates to social reproduction of labor if policy intervention is to be effective. <p/>The mapping and extensive analysis in this book are the result of a 3�-year European Union-funded research project (Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe or STYLE; http: //www.style-research.eu) coordinated by Jacqueline O'Reilly. With an overall budget of just under 5 million euros and involving 25 research partners; an international advisory network and local advisory boards of employers unions and policymakers; and non-governmental organizations from more than 20 European countries STYLE is one of the largest European Commission-funded research projects to exist on this topic. Consequently this book will appeal to an array of audiences including academic and policy researchers in sociology political science economics management studies and more particular labor market and social policy; policy communities; and bachelor's- and master's-level students in courses on European studies or any of the aforementioned subject areas.<br>