and recovery efforts. This policy brief presents the views of a non-representative sample of 151 youth organisations from … 72 countries, including 100 youth organisations based in 36 OECD countries, on how young people have been experiencing …

for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey or were temporarily absent from such work. Therefore NEET youth …

Participation in employment, education or training is important for youth to become established in the labour market … and achieve self-sufficiency. Record high unemployment rates in a number of countries have hit youth especially hard. This … has resulted in many youth unable to find work and in other youth withdrawing from the labour market entirely, becoming …

Promoting a smooth transition from school to work, and ensuring that youth are given the opportunities to move on in … people have borne much of the brunt of the recent jobs crisis. The youth unemployment rate is approaching 20% in the OECD … area, with nearly 4 million more youth among the unemployed than at the end of 2007. The initial experience in the labour …