Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367668549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 294 str.

Gianluigi Coppola; Niall O'Higgins

Opis

The first part of the book is concerned with issues related to education and training, covering matters such as the role of monopsony in training, the consequences of over-education, and the quality of educational institutions from primary to tertiary. The second part is primarily concerned with the long-term consequences of sho

Spis treści

1. Editor’s Introduction Youth and their future Part I: Education and training - choices and outcomes 2. Monopsony power and work-based training 3. Overeducation: A disease of the school-to-work transition system 4. Should I stay or should I go? Dropping Out from University: an Empirical Analysis of Students’ Performance 5. University Dropout rates in Italy 6. The future has early roots. Learning outcomes and school's effectiveness in Tuscany's primary education system Part II: Short-term choices with long-term consequences: Health, Home-leaving and intergenerational mobility 7. Smoking, drinking, never thinking of Tomorrow? Income and risky choices amongst young adults in the UK. 8. Obesity and the economic performance of young people in Italy 9. Leaving home and housing prices. The experience of Italian youth emancipation 10. Leaving Home and Poverty before and after the economic crisis in Southern European Countries 11. Youth unemployment and health over 50: evidence for the European countries 12. Intergenerational equity and intergenerational mobility in Italy: an analysis from SHIW PART III
Youth labour markets, NEET and the crisis 13. Youth re-employment probabilities in a gender perspective: the case of Italy 14. The regional impact of the crisis on young people in different EU countries 15. Young people in transitions: conditions, indicators and policy implications. To NEET or not to NEET?

O autorze

Gianluigi Coppola is Lecturer in Economics at the Department of Economic Science and Statistics, University of Salerno, Italy.

Niall O’Higgins is Senior Research Specialist in the ILO's Youth Employment Programme and Professor of Economics at the University of Salerno, Italy.