In most European countries, the youth unemployment rate is much higher ? at least double but in some countries also triple ? than the adult unemployment rate. The NEET group (young people ?neither in employment, education or training?) is also particularly large. The 2008-09 financial crisis,...

In most European countries, the youth unemployment rate is much higher ? at least double but in some countries also triple ? than the adult unemployment rate. The NEET group (young people ?neither in employment, education or training?) is also particularly large. The 2008-09 financial crisis,...

This paper assesses the impact of the crisis on the NEET rate and on the youth unemployment rate (YUR) of the EU regions. It begins with a review of the literature and presents some descriptive statistics on NEET and YURs. We use Eurostat's data for the period 2000-2011 concerning the NUTS-1...

The latest crisis has exacerbated two negative macroeconomic phenomena, particularly in Southern Europe. The size and persistence of youth unemployment has become unacceptable after 2010. Stagnation in labour productivity instead goes back to the ‘90s, but it has not improved since then and...

Youth unemployment is a serious problem in many European countries. In the first part of the paper, we consider the aggregate trends in some EU countries and in Russia; we especially investigate the recent period after the global crisis and the Great Recession. We then consider the different...