{"id":3963,"date":"2014-03-01T11:55:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T11:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2017-01-19T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:07:09","slug":"european-youth-unemployment-a-lost-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=3963","title":{"rendered":"European Youth Unemployment: A lost generation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As shown previously on this website, unequal living conditions<\/a> are one of the defining social problems of contemporary crisis-battered Europe. This weekend I attended the RondaForum 2014<\/a>, Southern Europe’s forum on entrepreneurship and education, where this issue was discussed amongst young people from around the world who were seeking for new ideas to bridge the gap between the often bleak realities of Europe’s youth and the aspirations that are needed to create a sustainable basis for future competitiveness and growth. How big that problem really is amongst Europe’s youth can be seen from a look at the change in youth unemployment over the course of the financial crisis. Much of Europe’s youth is now being referred to as the lost generation<\/a>, and in almost every European country youth unemployment has increased considerably between 2007 and 2012, as the following two maps show. They show the countries of Europe resized according to their absolute increase\/decline in youth unemployment in these five years, with only Germany having a significant decline in youth employment in that period. Amongst those countries having a considerable increase, especially Southern Europe is standing out showing the growing North-South divide<\/a> of the continent that highlight the challenges that initiatives such as the European Union’s Europe 2020 growth strategy<\/a> face:<\/p>\n

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\n\"The<\/a>These maps are part of the Social Atlas of Europe which I worked on with Dimitris Ballas<\/a> of Sheffield University and Danny Dorling<\/a> of Oxford University. It is due to be published in spring 2014 by Policy Press<\/a> and it can also be preordered via Amazon UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The content on this page has been created by Benjamin Hennig. Please contact me<\/a> for further details on the terms of use.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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