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Policymakers throughout Europe are enacting policies to support youth labour market integration. However, many young people continue to face unemployment, job insecurity, and the subsequent consequences.
Adopting a mixed-method and multilevel perspective, this book provides a comprehensive investigation into the multifaceted consequences of social exclusion. Drawing on rich pan-European comparative and quantitative data, and interviews with young people from across Europe, this text gives a platform to the unheard voices of young people.
Contributors derive crucial new policy recommendations and offer fresh insights into areas including youth well-being, health, poverty, leaving the parental home, and qualifying for social security.
Contents
1. Introduction: youth transitions in times of labour market insecurity - Michael Gebel, Marge Unt, Sonia Bertolini, Vassiliki Deliyanni-Kouimtzi, and Dirk Hofäcker
Part 1: Labour market insecurity and youth well-being and health
2. Effects of unemployment and insecure jobs on youth well-being in Europe: economic development and business cycle fluctuations - Olena Nizalova, Gintare Malisauskaite, Despoina Xanthopoulou, Katerina Gousia, and Christina Athanasiades
3. Health effects of unemployment in couples: does becoming unemployed affect a young partner's health? - Anna Baranowska-Rataj and Mattias Strandh
4. Multiple routes to youth well-being: a qualitative comparative analysis of buffers to the negative consequences of unemployment - Triin Lauri and Marge Unt
5. Experiencing unemployment and job insecurity in two European countries: German and Italian young people's well-being and coping strategies - Christoph Schlee, Rosy Musumeci, and Chiara Ghislieri
Part 2: Labour market insecurity and youth autonomy
6. Meanings of work in the narratives of Italian, Estonian, and Polish young people who experience labour market insecurity - Eve-Liis Roosmaa, Epp Reiska, Jędrzej Stasiowski, Sonia Bertolini, and Paola Maria Torrioni
7. Housing autonomy of youth in Europe: do labour and housing policies matter? - Valentina Goglio and Sonia Bertolini
8. Is housing autonomy still a step towards adulthood in a time of job insecurity? - Sonia Bertolini, Rosy Musumeci, Christina Athanasiades,
Anastasia Flouli, Lia Figgou, Vassiliki Deliyanni- Kouimtzi, Veneta Krasteva, Maria Jeliazkova, and Douhomir Minev
9. Becoming economically autonomous: young people in Italy and Poland in a time of job insecurity - Antonella Meo, Valentina Moiso, Jędrzej Stasiowski, and Zofia Włodarczyk
10. The role of informal social support for young people in unemployment and job insecurity in Italy, Estonia, and Germany - Antonella Meo, Roberta Ricucci, Christoph Schlee, Jelena Helemäe, and Margarita Kazjulja
11. How young people experience and perceive labour market policies in four European countries - Roberta Ricucci, Chiara Ghislieri, Veneta Krasteva, Maria Jeliazkova, Marti Taru, and Magdalena Rokicka
Part 3: Labour market insecurity and the socio-economic consequences for youth
12. Can labour market policies protect unemployed youth from poverty? A cross-European comparison - Małgorzata Kłobuszewska, Marta Palczyńska, Magdalena Rokicka, Jędrzej Stasiowski, Kadri Täht, and Marge Unt
13. Unemployment and job precariousness: material and social consequences for Greek and Italian youth - Lia Figgou, Martina Sourvinou, Christina Athanasiades, Valentina Moiso, and Rosy Musumeci
14. Syntheses of long-term socio-economic consequences of insecure labour market positions for youth in Europe - Dirk Hofäcker, Sina Schadow, and Janika Kletzing
15. Conclusions: Integrating perspectives on youth transitions and the risk of social exclusion - Sonia Bertolini, Vassiliki Deliyanni-Kouimtzi, Michael Gebel, Dirk Hofäcker, and Marge Unt
