Unemployment rates

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The unemployment rates less than 25 years old in some countries is approaching the 25%.

What could be focus areas for thinking about this fact?

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Permalink Reply by Phil Bachmann on May 2, 2012 at 20:30

Good question, Gijs!

Focus areas:
- What is it about younger people that makes them less employable?
- Easing the transition between school and work.
- How can schools/universities be more work orientated to employer needs?
- Identify different groups (eg. students who don't want to go to university) and how they can be helped into employment.

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Permalink Reply by Asa Jomard on May 2, 2012 at 20:38

Identify reasons why older people want to work longer.
Identify reasons why the market is inflexible and do no let parents etc. work less hours and employ younger people instead.
Identify ways to let young people work for themselves and get paid.

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Permalink Reply by Gijs van Beeck Calkoen on July 5, 2012 at 10:57

Perform a rational analysis of the causes. Remove faults and/or design measures that take away the causes
Design creative ways to ease the working in other regions or countries where there is a shortage of laborers
Design creative ways to prepare the unemployed < 25 years for the next period (eucation, training)
Design creative ways to provide in language skills, f.e. for the tourism industry English, Chinese, Russian.
Design creative ways to provide in entrepreneurial skills of the unemployed <25
Design creative ways to engage business owners to solve the problem - in stead of making it the only responsibility of the government
Design creative ways to make the spare time of the unemployed <25 productive for the short and long term
Design creative ways to housing for people who are not able to save for a house in their young years
Design creative ways to feed them
Design creative ways to secure pension rights in the future

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Permalink Reply by Gijs van Beeck Calkoen on July 10, 2012 at 21:31

Adonis,

it would be a interesting topic to look at the unemployment in states younger than 25 years old, and to compare those to other countries. What could be seen and learnt with regard to unemployment?

But that is not what I initially meant. I meant what focus areas you should pay attention to when your are f.i. in the government or you are a mayor of a city where 25 % of the younger population is unemployed.