Handbook Contents
Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe
Jacqueline O’Reilly, Mark Smith, Tiziana Nazio and Clémentine Moyart
Introduction: young people’s attitudes and values
Jacqueline O’Reilly and Clémentine Moyart
Do you have an invisible cape?
Sharon Dodua Otoo
Who do young people trust and why?
Niall O’Higgins and Marco Stimolo
Are young people’s work values changing?
Gábor Hajdu and Endre Sik
‘One step forward’: resilient strategies supporting the aspirations of vulnerable young people in foster care
Young people partners: Ross, Jaymi, Sunneka, Amy, Matt, Sitara, Raija, Rosa, Katy, Chloe, Lorna, Laura, Sam, Katarina and Lefteris; Academic authors: Angie Hart, Claire Stubbs, Stefanos Plexousakis, Maria Georgiadi and Elias Kourkoutas
What matters to young mums?
Emma Mckay and Emma Feasey
Are young people outsiders and does it matter?
Alessandro Arrigoni and Emanuele Ferragina
The STYLE SQUAD @ European Parliament: European Youth Event (EYE)
Clémentine Moyart and Jacqueline O’Reilly
Getting involved in politics
Edward Badu
Youth voice at the ballot box and in the economy: Lost or unheard?
Mark Smith and Genevieve Shanahan
Music as a platform: Grime cuts through
Stuart Hedley
Getting your message across: How can a press agency help?
Natalie Sarkic-Todd and Irene Marchi
Emerging policy lessons from research on youth attitudes and values
Angie Hart, Niall O’Higgins, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser and Endre Sik
Introduction to comparing country performance
Kari Hadjivassiliou
What drives youth unemployment?
Kari Hadjivassiliou, Laura Kirchner Sala and Stefan Speckesser
What policies are effective in combatting youth unemployment?
Francisco J. Gonzalez Carreras, Laura Kirchner Sala and Stefan Speckesser
Comparing youth transition regimes in Europe
Werner Eichhorst, Kari Hadjivassiliou and Florian Wozny
Policy overview of school-to-work transitions
Kari Hadjivassiliou
Introduction: What are the barriers to and triggers for policy innovation?
Maria Petmesidou and María C. González Menéndez
Policy learning, networks and diffusion of policy ideas
Maria Petmesidou and María C. González Menéndez
Gender inequalities in the early labour market experience of young Europeans
Gabriella Berloffa, Eleonora Matteazzi, Alina Şandor and Paola Villa
Policy-making and gender mainstreaming
Fatoş Gökşen, Alpay Filiztekin, Mark Smith, Çetin Çelik and İbrahim Öker
Ethnicity and gender differences of being employed in the UK: Policy implications
Carolina V. Zuccotti and Jacqueline O’Reilly
What works? Exploring a database inventory
Kari Hadjivassiliou
Learning from the Dutch case: innovating youth (un)employment policies in Amsterdam, Eindhoven and Tilburg
Marc van der Meer, Ruud Muffels and Sonja Bekker
What have we learnt about policy innovation and learning?
Maria Petmesidou, María C. González Menéndez and Kari Hadjivassiliou
Introduction: Skills and education mismatch
Seamus McGuinness
Is there a role for higher education institutions in improving the quality of first employment?
Seamus McGuinness, Adele Whelan and Adele Bergin
Are student workers crowding out low-skilled youth?
Miroslav Beblavý, Brian Fabo, Lucia Mýtna Kureková and Zuzana Žilinčíková
How different are youth and adult labour market transitions?
Vladislav Flek, Martin Hála and Martina Mysíková
What are the drivers of overeducation?
Seamus McGuinness, Adele Bergin and Adele Whelan
Skills and education mismatch: Policy themes
Seamus McGuinness, Lucia Mýtna Kureková and Vladislav Flek
Changing patterns of migration in Europe
Mehtap Akgüç and Miroslav Beblavý
East2West and North2North: Youth migration and labour market intermediaries in Austria and Norway
Christer Hyggen, Renate Ortlieb, Hans Christian Sandlie and Silvana Weiss
Four stories of migration
Christer Hyggen, Renate Ortlieb, Hans Christian Sandlie and Silvana Weiss
What happens to young people moving to Germany, Norway and the UK to find work?
Janine Leschke, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser and Thees Spreckelsen
How well integrated are young EU migrants in the UK workforce?
Thees Spreckelsen and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
Gender and migrant workers’ fragile transitions from education to employment
Fatoş Gökşen and İbrahim Öker
Return Migration to CEE after the crisis: Estonia and Slovakia
Jaan Masso, Lucia Mýtna Kureková, Maryna Tverdostup and Zuzana Žilinčíková
Emerging policy lessons for youth migration
Lucia Mýtna Kureková and Renate Ortlieb
Introduction: How do families matter in helping young people find work?
Tiziana Nazio and András Gábos
Does families’ working behaviour affect their children’s school-to-work trajectories?
Gabriella Berloffa, Eleonora Matteazzi and Alina Şandor
Workless parents, workless children?
Gabriella Berloffa, Eleonora Matteazzi and Paola Villa
What a difference a mum makes
Mark Smith and Genevieve Shanahan
Is any job better than no job?
Marianna Filandri, Tiziana Nazio and Jacqueline O’Reilly
The luck is in the family: Continued financial support after leaving the nest
Marianna Filandri and Tiziana Nazio
Leaving and returning to the parental home during the economic crisis
Fatoş Gökşen, Deniz Yükseker, Alpay Filiztekin, İbrahim Öker, Fernanda Mazzotta and Lavinia Parisi
When do you start your own family?
Elena Mariani and András Gábos
Policy themes on family matters
Tiziana Nazio and András Gábos
Introduction: Balancing flexibility and security for young people during the crisis
Raul Eamets, Katrin Humal, Miroslav Beblavý, Ilaria Maselli, Kariappa Bheemaiah, Mark Smith, Mairéad Finn and Janine Leschke
The quality of young Europeans’ employment: A dynamic perspective
Gabriella Berloffa, Eleonora Matteazzi, Alina Şandor and Paola Villa
Youth school-to-work transitions: From entry jobs to career employment
Gabriella Berloffa, Eleonora Matteazzi, Gabriele Mazzolini, Alina Şandor and Paola Villa
How has the recession affected young people’s well-being in Europe?
Helen Russell, Janine Leschke and Mark Smith
Is self-employment a solution to young people’s employment problems?
Renate Ortlieb, Maura Sheehan and Jaan Masso
Flexicurity policies to integrate youth before and after the crisis
Mark Smith and Paola Villa
The strange non-death of ALMPs
Magnus Paulsen Hansen and Janine Leschke
Work please, but poverty no thanks: How to avoid the rise in the working poor?
Mark Smith and Genevieve Shanahan
Do young people want Universal Basic Income?
Mark Smith and Genevieve Shanahan
‘Career opportunities the ones that never knock’: Are some employers more ‘youth friendly’ than others?
Jacqueline O’Reilly, Raffaele Grotti and Helen Russell