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In all employment systems in the world the integration of young people into the
labour market is an important task. Statistics (e.g. on all OECD countries) show a
higher rate of youth unemployment compared to the overall unemployment rate.
Even minor economic crises make the youth unemployment rates grow faster, in
the light of the actual economic depression youth unemployment is rapidly
growing all over the world.
Even when specific factors to tackle youth unemployment are varying highly in
different economic and social circumstances, one can name the main problems.
On the one hand we see different views from expectations of young people from
the labour market and its reality. These different views come from gender role
models (e.g. in Austria approximately 50% of young women want to work in only
5 occupations like hairdresser or secretary). But there are also different
expectations, like many prefer to earn money at the time instead of thinking of
long term career development. Most European countries face a lack of personnel
in technology and natural sciences, but have a lot of students in human and
social sciences.
New forms of labour promise individual and flexible working conditions. But most
of them lack social safeguarding for young people on the labour market.
Individualisation and flexibilisation is often followed by “precarisation”, which
means a high economical risk through only day-to-day jobs.