Massimilliano Mascherini - A European Youth Guarantee
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A possible way out:
An European Youth Guarantee?
Massimiliano Mascherini
[email protected]
Youth unemployment rate Nov. 12
23.7% ≈ 5.7 million
NEETs
Not in Employment Education or
Training
7.5 million aged 15-24
6.4 million aged 25-29
14 million = 7 Member States
Consequences of youth disengagement from labour market have a cost for the
individual and the society!
2011
Foregone Earnings and
unpaid taxes
Excess of welfare
transfer
€ 153,013,053,902
≈ 1.2% of EU GDP
Source: Eurofound
EU Member States actively engaged in designing and implementing measures
aimed at re-integrating young people into labour market.
MEASURES WHICH
INTERVENE BEFORE RISK
FACTORS OCCUR
Measures aiming
to prevent early
school leaving
(ESL)
MEASURES WHICH AIM
TO GET YOUNG PEOPLE
BACK INTO EDUCATION /
TRAINING
Measures aiming
to reintegrate
early school
leavers
MEASURES TO
FACILITATE THE
TRANSITION TO
EMPLOYMENT
Measures to
facilitate the
transition from
school to work
(TRAINING) MEASURES
WHICH AIM TO
ENHANCE YOUNG
PEOPLE'S
EMPLOYABILITY
Measures to
foster
employability
among young
people
Evaluating effectiveness is challenging
Hard to indicate most successful approach.
MEASURES TO HELP
GROUPS AT A SPECIFIC
DISADVANTAGE ON THE
LABOUR MARKET
Measures to
remove practical /
logistical barriers
and employer
incentives
Youth Guarantee
General agreement on value of youth guarantee in integrating young people into
labour market, avoiding long-term consequences of unemployment
Finnish Youth Guarantee
Tailored Approach:
PES to carry out a needs
assessment and develop a
personal development plan
for the jobseeker
The guarantee:
Offer of a job, a study place
or another activation
measure
In 2010 the intervention was successfully delivered to approximately the 80%
of participants.
Youth Guarantee
Typically provides tailored services that help young people to make more
informed decisions about their transition to work. The guarantee is
targeted on the needs of the jobseeker.
Encourages immediate action to address youth unemployment, before
disengagement ‘sets in’
Young people are not left alone and it is helpful to re-build young people’s
trust in institutions
The time of intervention is crucial and it has been found to be more
effective with those ‘ready-to-work’
The need to place young people on long term pathways, avoiding shortterm solutions
Youth Guarantee
Youth guarantee alone does not solve the structural problems of labour
market access of young people
The success of youth guarantees is highly dependent on other public
policies in place, i.e. apprenticeships, traineeships, and on the
infrastructure of the public employment services and their capacity of
delivering ad-hoc tailored support to young people.
This is essential in the framework of an European Youth Guarantee
Transferability of Youth Guarantee
Cost
Estimating the cost of the implementation of the Youth guarantee is very hard and
depends on the level of readiness of the country
Tailored Approach: re-organization of the
infrastructure of Public Employment Service,
Implementation of new services for youth.
Delivery of the guarantee: re-organization and
improvement or implementation of new
education/training places; apprenticeships and
internships.
I.L.O. estimation is 21 billion. Eurofound will conduct an exercise on the
transferability of youth guarantee for few countries later on this year.
Steps Forward
153billion Euro/14 Million: This is the cost of inaction.
15% of NEETs
23 billion Euro
Essential to learn good practices one from each other.
Member States should adapt good practices to their national context when
thinking to the transferability of these policies.
An investment on youth guarantee is a long term investment.
Whose returns goes beyond the economic dimension and includes the
social dimension, having a positive impact on the future of our societies
Time to Act!
What happens if we fail in re-integrating young people into the labour
market? We cannot afford to lose a generation!
Our recent publications
NEETs – Young people not in employment, education or training:
Characteristics, costs and policy responses in Europe
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2012/54/en/1/EF1254EN.pdf
Youth Guarantee: Experiences from Finland and Sweden
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2012/42/en/1/EF1242EN.pdf
Effectiveness of policy measures to increase the employment participation of young people
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2012/60/en/1/EF1260EN.pdf
Recent policy developments related to those not in employment, education and training (NEETs)
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/erm/tn1109042s/tn1109042s.pdf
Active inclusion of young people with disabilities or health problems
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2012/26/en/1/EF1226EN.pdf