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The fight against youth
unemployment in the region
Rivierenland
Dordrecht 28 October 2014
Pim Kalkman
Region
Rivierenland
(Province of
Gelderland)
10 municipalities
250.000 inhabitants
The hard facts
• Level of education is relatively low
• 56 % of the unemployed youth has no level of basic
qualification
• Employment rate 5,4 %; youth employment rate 12 %
• From 2015 till 2030 : 25 % of the regional workforce
retires
• Quantitative replacement is possible; qualitative
replacement is a problem
• Job prospects mainly in technical area, logistics and
transport, horticulture and business services
• More temporary jobs and less permanent jobs
Consequences
Is likely to become more serious the
longer unemployment of youngsters
continues
Raise risk of future unemployment
and/or protracted period of unstable
employment
Valuable work experience is not
acquired and professional skills may
fade away
Effects more severe for youth
entering the workforce with
education level below tertiary level
Is likely to result in wage scars that
continue to depress employment and
earnings prospects
Consequences
of youth
unemployment
Youth are increasingly employed in
non-standard jobs, including
temporary employment and parttime work
Analysis
• Two key challenges: long-term and short-term
• Structural youth unemployment (long-term) affects 7 – 9% of young
people ( the most disadvantaged)
• It is good to form partnerships to support young people with
complex needs
• The shortage of jobs (short- term) means prepare for tomorrow’s
jobs
• Focus on qualifications and employability skills
• Inform young people in a realistic way about the labour market
• Invest in a gradual transition from education to work
• Make job opportunities and work-experience available to young
people
• Stimulate entrepreneurship
Focus in approach
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Personal coaching of youngsters
Connection education- labour market
Commitment of employers
Arrangements between local authorities,
education and trade and industry
• Sustainable employability
• Further research
Personal coaching of youngsters
• Two services:
– Work training portal (advice, testing)
– Employers advice centre ( active approach of employers)
• Community coaching
– With volunteers from the region
• Starters grants
– Six months training programme
• Prevention of early school leaving
• Care component in special education
– Sheltered workplacements with help of specialized youth care
– Custom courses in different branches
– Advice on job carving
Connection education labour market
• Vouchers for work placements in
– Technical area
– Logistics and transport
• General vouchers for work placements
• Centre for young entrepreneurship
Commitment of employers
• Regional social agreement
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Cooperation on a regional level
Employers are responsible for the labour market in the region
Local authority facilitates
1 st target : 200 jobs,workplacements
2nd target: 10 jobs for people with a distyance to teh labour
market
• Ambassadors
– Offer workplacement
– Preferred supplier for other ambassadors
– 5 x5 x5
Arrangements between local authorities,
education and trade and industry
• Fort Asperen
• Toegerust uit de startblokken.
Sustainable employability
– MBO investeringsfonds
( MBO Vocational Investment Fund )
Fund to help vocational education to realize a
better connection between education and the
labour market
students are responsible for their own future
enterpreneurship
employability skills
Further research
• Work security before job security
• Labour market more and more flexible
• The effects of ageing tend to benefit the labour market
later than expected
• The vacancies for jobs hardest to fulfill are for jobs we
hadn’t even heard of ten years ago
• Only 30 % of people with higher education work in the
field they were educated in
Platform Education Labour Market
• Strategic platform
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10 municipalities
Respresentation of employers
Trade unions
Education
PES
• not only labour market policy, but also economical
development
• serves as a basis for the new participation law
Participation law
(social agreement)
• Starting from 2015 municipalities, employers and labour
unions are responsible in their region for inhabitants with
reduced earning capacity
• To realize that each of the 35 labour market region installs
a business company
• The PES indicates which kind of work is appropiate. This
directly affects the ammount of the benefit and any wage
supplement.
Exchange of information
• PES gives information on
– Figures en statistics
– Development labour market in the region
– Youth, education and work
• Integrated systems
– Duo, SUWI, PES
• Province of Gelderland
– Economical development and development labour market
• Newsletters
• Grey economy
Accounting for succes
• Strong infrastructure
• Commitment of employers
Bottlenecks
• Lack of coherence
• Hard to get all relevant information
• Too many different approaches
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Ministery of Social Affairs
Province of Gelderland
Social agreement
European Social Fund
MBO Vocational Investment Fund
Don’t just plan- try to improve
Improvement and key concepts for
the future
• Cross sectoral education (e.g. IT, engineering and care)
• Life long learning
• New concepts in mobility (flexpools)