students. Unemployment is high and the school-to-job transition process does not work well. Spending on education and active … because of the high level of long-term unemployment, more emphasis should be placed on activation policies, particularly on … disadvantaged pupils. Developing work-based vocational education would also facilitate the transition from school to work. This …

struggling to emerge from the crisis. Reflecting the weakness of this traditional sector, which is labour intensive, unemployment … construction sector.<p> To tackle high and persistent unemployment and thus stave off social exclusion, Ireland needs to further … enhance product-market competition, improve innovation efforts and ameliorate the quality of education, which are key to …

Unemployment in South Africa is extremely high and unevenly distributed, being concentrated among young less … which produced the extreme levels of unemployment, but more could have been done to unwind those legacies and other policies … implementation of employment protection legislation could also help reduce unemployment. Efforts to tackle crime could help reduce …