The current financial and economic crisis has an impact on many citizens in the European Union. One group that is particularly hit are young people, who face increasing difficulties in the transition into work. In 2011 the youth unemployment rate (15-24) ranked as high as 46.4% in Spain; on aver...
In the context of its 2011 work programme, Eurofound has explored the situation of young people who are part of the NEET group: ‘not in employment, education or training’. The research was carried out by Eurofound’s Employment and Competitiveness unit, using the capacity of the Network of Europe...
This Eurobarometer survey, dedicated to European youth, was carried out in the 28 Member States of the EU between 9 and 25 April 2016. It is published on the eve of the 2016 European Youth Event (EYE2016) organized by the European Parliament on 20-21 May 2016 in Strasbourg. 7 000 participants, a...
The economic crisis has severely damaged the employment prospects of young people in Europe, and their employment rate is now at the lowest level ever. To better capture the extent of economic inactivity among the young, the concept of NEET – not in employment, education or training – has been d...
This policy brief highlights findings on a specific topic from Eurofound’s European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) that is of particular interest from a policy perspective. It brings results of the analysis of these data together with evidence from other Eurofound projects to formulate a number o...
