Youth Unemployment and Society

Anne C Petersen editor Jeylan T Mortimer editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:2nd Nov '06

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This book examines youth unemployment and intervention strategies in the United States and Europe.

This book provides an interdisciplinary, cross-national examination of trends in youth unemployment and intervention strategies in the United States and Europe. It examines how persistently high rates of youth unemployment affect values, beliefs and institutions.As societies become more technically advanced and jobs require more expertise, young people are forced into a prolonged state of social marginality. Employment during adolescence could provide significant experiences for growth into later work roles, but most societies are not equipped to provide adolescents with meaningful work experience. In Youth Unemployment and Society, historians, psychologists, economists and sociologists provide a cross-national examination of trends in youth unemployment and intervention strategies in the United States and Europe. Assessing the causes of aggregate societal unemployment rates, the authors address factors that make individuals more vulnerable to unemployment and consider the developmental consequences of this experience. The volume also examines how persistently high rates of youth unemployment affect society's values, beliefs and institutions.

"The volume offers not only comprehensive reviews and interpretations of relevant literature, but also methodological and theoretical challenges to social scientists who work on these problems. The conclusions drawn throughout are well supported by the latest scientific research on the determining, mediating, and moderating factors affecting unemployment in Europe and North America. The book provides analyses of the success of national programs and systems designed to alleviate unemployment or prevent it from becoming a personal and societal problem." Leann M. Tigges, Contemporary Sociology

ISBN: 9780521028578

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 20mm

Weight: 528g

340 pages