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Studies young people that are not in education, employment, or training (NEETs); a prime concern among policy makers. Analyses diverse school-to-work patterns of young NEETs in five typical countries, and investigates the role of individual characteristics, countries' institutions and policies, and their complex interplay.
List of contents
1. Not in Employment, Education, or Training around the World 2. NEET during the School-to-Work Transition in the Netherlands 3. NEET in Germany: Labour Market Entry Patterns and Gender Differences 4. Patterns in NEET Statuses during the School-to-Work Transition in France 5. NEETs in England 6. NEET in Japan: Focusing on Gender and Cohort 7. Policy Interventions Targeting NEETs in Different Institutional Settings 8. The Role of Education Systems in Preventing NEETs 9. Can Labour Market Policies Help to Reduce Long-term NEETs? 10. How Long-term NEET are Explained by Family Policies in OECD Countries 11. Conclusions and Discussion
About the author
Mark Levels is Professor of Health, Education and Work at Maastricht University and Program Director at the Research Centre for Education and the Labor Market (ROA) and Fellow of the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB).
Christian Brzinsky-Fay is Research Fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center and Scientific Research Coordinator of the Doctoral College "Good Work: Approaches to Shaping Tomorrow's World of Work."
Craig Holmes is a labour economist and Departmental Lecturer in Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford.
Janine Jongbloed is a researcher at the Institute for Research on Education: Sociology and Economics of Education (IREDU) at the University of Burgundy in France and the University of British Columbia in Canada.
Hirofumi Taki is Associate Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Hosei University, Japan.
Summary
Studies young people that are not in education, employment, or training (NEETs); a prime concern among policy makers. Analyses diverse school-to-work patterns of young NEETs in five typical countries, and investigates the role of individual characteristics, countries’ institutions and policies, and their complex interplay.
