Scarpetta, Stefano; Sonnet, Anne; Manfredi, Thomas - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2010
The global economic crisis has hit youth very hard. In the OECD area, the youth (15-24) unemployment rate rose by 6 percentage points in the two years to the end of 2009, to reach almost 19%. There are currently nearly 15 million youth unemployed in the OECD area, about four million more than at...