| Title |
Employment and entrepreneurship |
| Authors |
Acienė, Elvyra ; Rauckienė-Michaelsson, Alona |
| DOI |
10.15804/YPS.9788381805544.08 |
| ISBN |
9788381805544 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Youth participation and solidarity : handbook for students and teachers of social professions.. Toruń : Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2022. p. 74-80, 172-173.. ISBN 9788381805544 |
| Keywords [eng] |
employment ; entrepreneurship ; youth and labor market ; European solidarity ; emigration ; equal opportunities |
| Abstract [eng] |
The general decline in labor market engagement among young people has continued in the past years. That is partly because young people are spending more time in education, which is helping ensure that the future labor force will be better skilled and able to cope with the transformations in the world of work brought about by new technologies. However, it also reflects a significant degree of labor under utilization as approximately one-fifth of young people worldwide are not in employment, education, or training. Other challenges requiring a strong policy response include persisting gender gaps in the labor market, the prevalence of informal employment, which affects more than three-quarters of young workers, and working poverty, which affects almost one-third. The fact that millions of young people worldwide would emigrate permanently, if they had a chance, highlights the urgent need for policy-makers to tackle the labor market barriers and precarious conditions at work faced by young people in many countries. |
| Published |
Toruń : Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2022 |
| Type |
Book part |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2022 |
| CC license |
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