While the unemployment rate for young people has always tended to be well above the average, this tendency has been greatly accentuated in recent years. There is a large turnover in the youth labour force, and the employment of experience of those between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five has...

Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A review of the record -- 3 A look at the future -- 4 Seasonal patterns -- 5 The dynamics of the market: short-term flows and transition probabilities -- 6 Has the structure of unemployment rates changed? -- 7 On the causes of high youth...