Introduction -- Some Stylised Facts -- The Youth Experience Gap -- The Mainstream Approach to the Causes of Youth Unemployment -- Weaknesses of the Mainstream Approach -- The Interventionist Approach -- A Classification of School-to-Work Transition Regimes. .

Some stylized facts -- The youth experience gap -- The mainstream approach to the causes of youth unemployment -- Weaknesses of the mainstream approach -- The interventionist approach -- A classification of school-to-work transition regimes -- Discussion and summary remarks