Jugendarbeitslosigkeit
Trotz eines Rückgangs ist die EU-Jugendarbeitslosenquote nach wie vor sehr hoch. Laut EU-Kommission sind derzeit 4,5 Millionen junge Menschen (im Alter von 15 bis 24 Jahren) arbeitslos. Einem großen Teil dieser Generation droht durch fehlende Zukunftsperspektiven soziale Ausgrenzung mit weitreichenden Folgen. Mit Maßnahmen wie der Europäischen Ausbildungsallianz und Jugendgarantien der Länder soll entgegengesteuert werden.
Diese Infoplattform bietet einen Einblick in die Literatur zu den Determinanten von und Strategien gegen Jugendarbeitslosigkeit auf nationaler wie internationaler Ebene.
- Ergebnisse aus dem IAB
- Gesamtbetrachtungen
- Determinanten
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Strategien
- Aktive Arbeitsmarktprogramme
- Beschäftigungsförderung - Förderung der Beschäftigungsfähigkeit
- Maßnahmen zur Bildung und Weiterbildung
- "Assistierte Ausbildung"
- Förderung der Mobilität auf dem Arbeitsmarkt
- "Jugendgarantie" - überbetriebliches Ausbildungsangebot
- Vernetzung der Akteure - Jugendberufsagenturen
- Geografischer Bezug
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Even more discouraged? The NEET generation at the age of COVID-19 (2025)
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Aina, Carmen, Irene Brunetti, Chiara Mussida & Sergio Scicchitano (2025): Even more discouraged? The NEET generation at the age of COVID-19. In: Applied Economics, Jg. 57, H. 25, S. 3455-3472. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2024.2337790
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"The Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) status is a long-standing problem that occupies a priority role in the European policy agenda, even more during the post-COVID-19 outbreak. This paper investigates whether and how the COVID-19 pandemic and the quality of institutions affect the probability of being NEET in Italy. In treating the 15-34 unemployed and inactive cohort jointly, our hypothesis is that the COVID-19 exposure has increased the risk of being NEET during the second quarter of 2020 whereas the quality of institutions could mitigate it. Estimates on a unique dataset obtained by merging the Italian Labor Force Survey with the Institutional Quality Index dataset, confirms it. In addition, in dealing the 15-24 and 25-34 cohorts separately, our results show that individuals in the older age group are the most affected. Finally, "good deeds" implemented by institutions, such as active policies conducted at regional level, are a further educational investment that could protect from becoming NEET." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Which companies hire NEET? Organisational characteristics of hiring NEET in a Norwegian full-population registry study (2025)
Alves, Daniele Evelin ; Lillebråten, Andreas ; Bernstrøm, Vilde Hoff ; Lundberg, Camilla Stub ; Nilsen, Wendy ; Ballo, Jannike Gottschalk ;Zitatform
Alves, Daniele Evelin, Jannike Gottschalk Ballo, Wendy Nilsen, Camilla Stub Lundberg, Andreas Lillebråten & Vilde Hoff Bernstrøm (2025): Which companies hire NEET? Organisational characteristics of hiring NEET in a Norwegian full-population registry study. In: Journal of Youth Studies, Jg. 28, H. 4, S. 601-620. DOI:10.1080/13676261.2023.2290112
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"Which types of organizations hire NEET? We use longitudinal national registry data from Norway to investigate four types of organizational characteristics: (a) staff proportion with low pay and low education, (b) staff size and (c) staff proportion from groups with lower rates of work participation, and (d) private/public sector. Full-population registry data with all newly hired-employees in Norway aged 15 –30 years, yielded a sample of approximately 120,000 new hires in 2018 from 22,621 organizations. Organizational characteristics were measured the previous year. After controlling for individual and organisational level variables in logistic regression models, we found that: private organizations and those predominated by staff with low income, incomplete secondary school, NEET history and immigrant background were more likely to hire new NEET the following year. Organisation size was unrelated to the likelihood of hiring NEET. This study applies an innovative method to study demand side characteristics in a full population registry study. It also contributes to disentangling which of these characteristics lose their expected effect when the dataset is large and complete enough to control for individual and organizational factors- adjusted for organisation clustering. These characteristics can guide us towards which companies can serve as gate-openers for NEET." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Trajectories of NEET in individuals formerly placed in out-of-home care: A Swedish national cohort study (2025)
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Brännström, Lars, Marie Berlin, Olof Bäckman & Patrik Karlsson (2025): Trajectories of NEET in individuals formerly placed in out-of-home care. A Swedish national cohort study. In: International Journal of Social Welfare, Jg. 34, H. 2. DOI:10.1111/ijsw.12695
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"It is widely acknowledged that individuals with out-of-home care (OHC) experiences, including foster-family care and residential care, face an increased risk of poor labor market attachment during emerging adulthood. However, limited understanding exists regarding how this attachment, conceptualized here as ‘not in employment, education, or training’ (NEET), evolves beyond young adulthood and the degree to which this development is marked by persistence or desistance. Using group-based trajectory modelling and multinomial regression on population-based register data for over 650,000 Swedish men and women (including approximately 14,000 with OHC experience), followed from birth to age 40, the results indicate that OHC-experienced individuals, especially those first placed as teenagers, exhibit a substantially higher risk of persistent NEET compared to peers without OHC experience. Nevertheless, the majority of OHC-experienced individuals followed pathways characterized by desistance. Implications for research, policy and practice are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Can labor policies reduce precarization? The case of youth employment in Italy (2025)
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Caravaggio, Nicola (2025): Can labor policies reduce precarization? The case of youth employment in Italy. In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Jg. 75, S. 163-187. DOI:10.1016/j.strueco.2025.06.003
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"The so-called Dignity Decree (DD), which came into force in summer 2018, represents one of the most significant legislative interventions in employment protection within the Italian labor market. This study examines the role of DD in shaping the career paths of young workers (aged 15-29) who recently entered the labor market. Specifically, we focus on their probability of being employed one year or more after the reform’s implementation and their likelihood of securing an open-ended contract within the same time frames. The analysis relies on an exclusive database of Compulsory Communications data and employs a Propensity Score Matching estimation. The findings suggest a modest improvement in the persistence of the labor market, with the probability of remaining employed increasing by approximately 1.5% one year after DD implementation. The result is more evident for open-ended contracts, with the probability of being employed in a permanent position rising to almost 4.5% after one year and half. Additionally, the DD is associated with a slight reduction in the number of contract activations and an increase in working days, reaching an additional 11 days 1.5 years after the reform’s introduction." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.) ((en))
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Hard‐to‐Reach Insider Actors on Light‐Touch Labour Market Regulation in the UK: Compliance, Deterrence, and Intelligence? (2025)
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Clark, Ian (2025): Hard‐to‐Reach Insider Actors on Light‐Touch Labour Market Regulation in the UK: Compliance, Deterrence, and Intelligence? In: Industrial relations journal. DOI:10.1111/irj.70005
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"Actors who deliver state policy on low wage precarious workers on the front-line manage coercion and exploitation in the workplace by accepting the presence of both through permissiveness rather than seeking enforcement of labor market regulations. To develop this argument the article examines permissiveness in compliance, deterrence, and intelligence approaches used by regulators and enforcement agencies. The article provides a contribution to understanding the limitations of current approaches to labor market regulation which oversee noncompliance, confine deterrence activities to specific sectors, and use intelligence sources for law enforcement rather than labor market enforcement. The contribution does so by examining enforcement agency actors, and regulatory actors as hard-to-engage actors who play a critical part in the formulation labor market regulation policy on the front-line." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Are Young English People’s Attitudes Towards Employment Indicative of Whether They Have Spent a Large Proportion of Their Adult Lives Unemployed? (2025)
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Dunn, Andrew (2025): Are Young English People’s Attitudes Towards Employment Indicative of Whether They Have Spent a Large Proportion of Their Adult Lives Unemployed? In: Social Policy and Society, S. 1-15. DOI:10.1017/s1474746425000016
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"Some leading UK politicians have claimed that a culture of welfare dependency exists and that a sizeable number of unemployed benefit claimants lack an appropriate commitment to employment. Such claims were used to justify the 2012 Welfare Reform Act’s new measuresto steer unemployed claimants towards applying for and retaining jobs they might not want. The statistical analysis presented here is the first to explore possible connections between people’s attitudes towards disliked/unattractive jobs, their parents’ employment status, and the total time they have spent in unemployment. Logistic regression analysis used Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE)/Next Steps data on people born in 1989/90 to predict whether they spent an unusually long time unemployed between age eighteen and twenty-five; an attitude favouring joblessness over a disliked/unattractive job was a nonsignificant predictor in eleven of twelve multivariate models, and a weak predictor (OR = 1.32) in the other." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Jugendberufsagenturen als Lotsen für junge Menschen im Übergang Schule - Beruf (2025)
Enggruber, Ruth; Neises, Frank;Zitatform
Enggruber, Ruth & Frank Neises (2025): Jugendberufsagenturen als Lotsen für junge Menschen im Übergang Schule - Beruf. In: Newsletter / nfb H. 2.
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"Ein Berufsabschluss ist eine wichtige Voraussetzung für gesellschaftliche Teilhabe in Deutschland, aber etwa jedem fünften jungen Menschen im Alter von 20 bis 34 Jahren fehlt er. Viele von ihnen besuchen Angebote im Übergang zwischen Schule und Ausbildung, trotzdem nehmen im Anschluss daran nur zwei Drittel in den nächsten drei Jahren eine Ausbildung auf. Schon vor zehn Jahren forderte das Nationale Forum Beratung (nfb) deshalb, junge Menschen mit rechtskreisübergreifender Vernetzung aller am Unterstützungssystem Beteiligten nicht nur organisatorisch, sondern unter fachlich-inhaltlichen Aspekten zu begleiten. Jugendberufsagenturen (JBA) sind rechtskreisübergreifende Kooperationsbündnisse mit starker lokaler Orientierung. Der folgende Beitrag skizziert, inwieweit es ihnen seitdem gelungen ist, für junge Menschen eine Lotsenfunktion zu übernehmen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Jugendberufsagenturen als Mittler im ›Förderdschungel‹ zwischen Schule und Beruf (2025)
Enggruber, Ruth;Zitatform
Enggruber, Ruth (2025): Jugendberufsagenturen als Mittler im ›Förderdschungel‹ zwischen Schule und Beruf. In: Sozialmagazin H. 7/8, S. 47-53. DOI:10.3262/SM2508047
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"Da in Deutschland ein Berufsabschluss vor Arbeitslosigkeit und Armut schützt, geht die Arbeitsmarktpolitik gegen Ausbildungslosigkeit mit vielfältigen Angeboten der Jugendberufshilfe vor. So ist ein ›Förderdschungel‹ am Übergang von der Schule in den Beruf entstanden, der für junge Menschen erhebliche Risiken birgt. Jugendberufsagenturen sollen zur Risikominimierung beitragen, was jedoch nur einigen von ihnen gelingt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Off to a bad start: youth nonemployment and labor market outcomes later in life (2025)
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Filomena, Mattia, Isabella Giorgetti & Matteo Picchio (2025): Off to a bad start: youth nonemployment and labor market outcomes later in life. In: Empirical economics, Jg. 69, H. 1, S. 549-579. DOI:10.1007/s00181-025-02735-y
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"We estimate the effect of nonemployment experienced by Italian youth after secondary school exit on subsequent labor market outcomes. We focus on the impact on earnings and labor market participation both in the short term and in the long term. By estimating a factor-analytic model that controls for time-varying unobserved heterogeneity, we find that the negative effect of nonemployment on earnings is persistent, being sizeable and statistically significant up to 25 years after school completion. Penalties in terms of participation last instead shorter. Hence, early nonemployment operates by persistently locking the youth who get off to a bad start into low-wage jobs." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Zwischen Schulabschluss und Berufsausbildung: Die Barrieren für Jugendliche aus Haushalten mit Grundsicherungsbezug sind besonders hoch (2025)
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Fitzenberger, Bernd, Anna Heusler & Julia Holleitner (2025): Zwischen Schulabschluss und Berufsausbildung: Die Barrieren für Jugendliche aus Haushalten mit Grundsicherungsbezug sind besonders hoch. In: IAB-Forum H. 18.06.2025 Nürnberg, 2025-06-17. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20250618.01
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"Der Abschluss einer Ausbildung oder eines Studiums trägt wesentlich zu einem reibungslosen Übergang von der Schule in den Arbeitsmarkt bei. Doch die Zahl junger Menschen ohne Berufsabschluss nimmt seit Jahren zu. Vor allem bei jungen Erwachsenen aus Haushalten, die Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende beziehen, ist das Risiko instabiler Übergänge deutlich erhöht." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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"Wir können den jungen Menschen jetzt häufig passgenaue Angebote eröffnen" (2025)
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Gille, Christoph & Silke Tophoven; Christina Grodotzki (sonst. bet. Pers.) (2025): "Wir können den jungen Menschen jetzt häufig passgenaue Angebote eröffnen". In: Sozialmagazin H. 7/8, S. 54-59. DOI:10.3262/SM2508054
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"Das Interview beleuchtet die Entwicklung und Arbeitsweise der Jugendberufsagentur Essen. Seit 2015 arbeitet die Jugendberufsagentur als rechtskreisübergreifendes Kooperationsmodell, um junge Menschen ganzheitlich zu beraten und zu unterstützen. Ziel ist eine handlungsfähige, präsente und niedrigschwellige Jugendberufsagentur, die passgenaue Angebote macht und strukturelle Hürden zwischen den Rechtskreisen überwindet – mit dem Anspruch, Lebensläufe positiv zu verändern und echte Teilhabe zu ermöglichen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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The role of social capital in precarious youth employment transitions. Evidence from Spain (2025)
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González-Heras, Alejandro, Joan Rodríguez-Soler & Joan M. Verd (2025): The role of social capital in precarious youth employment transitions. Evidence from Spain. In: Journal of Youth Studies, S. 1-18. DOI:10.1080/13676261.2025.2518952
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"Young people in southern European countries experience particularly difficult transitions between training and employment. In these countries, leaving aside training and work experience, the support of personal networks – which can be conceptualized as social capital – is particularly important in young people’s access to employment. The article’s objective is to identify the extent to which bonding, bridging and linking social capital play a similar role in precarious employment transitions to that described in the literature for more general labour market transitions. To study this role, the article explores data on the labour market trajectory and the mobilization of social connections of young people in Spain, collected by means of a hybrid questionnaire. A set of multilevel logistic regressions is applied to these data, taking the type of contract as a dependent variable. The results show that bridging and linking social capital are useful for avoiding the most precarious employment situation in the careers analysed (informal employment), but they are not associated with stable employment. Furthermore, when the distinction between hierarchical and non-hierarchical bonding social capital is introduced, the results show that only hierarchical bonding (i.e. vertical ties) is negatively associated to the most precarious employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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A life course perspective on the NEET phenomenon: long-term exclusion across cohorts, gender, and social origin among young adults in Norway (2025)
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Heglum, Mari Amdahl & Wendy Nilsen (2025): A life course perspective on the NEET phenomenon: long-term exclusion across cohorts, gender, and social origin among young adults in Norway. In: Journal of Youth Studies, Jg. 28, H. 5, S. 807-827. DOI:10.1080/13676261.2024.2305907
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"This study addresses the limitations of the NEET indicator (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) as a measure of the risk of social exclusion. Applying a life course analytical framework and sequence analysis to administrative data from Norway, we investigate the link between NEET status and longer-term exclusion across cohorts, gender, and social origin. Young adults with at least one year of NEET status at ages 22-25 (N = 125 804) are followed for ten years (age 22-31), spanning the years 1993-2017. Results show a mixed picture for individuals with early-career NEET status: 38 percent fare well over the long term, while over one-third face persistent challenges of long-term exclusion or reliance on permanent disability benefits. A deterioration of longer-term prospects, stronger among men than women, is observed across cohorts. An initial large gender gap in long-term exclusion probability in men's favor disappears in the youngest cohorts. Social inequalities remain stable over time. Findings support recent research emphasizing NEET category heterogeneity. Static measures may both exaggerate and underestimate the challenges faced by different sub-populations. The risk of long-term exclusion changes markedly over time, showcasing how the NEET indicator's sensitivity as a measure of at-risk youth depends on the historical-institutional context." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Mittelfristig hat die Berufseinstiegsbegleitung einen positiven Einfluss auf Beschäftigung und Verdienst (2025)
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Heß, Pascal & Lukas Wilzek (2025): Mittelfristig hat die Berufseinstiegsbegleitung einen positiven Einfluss auf Beschäftigung und Verdienst. In: IAB-Forum H. 02.06.2025, 2025-06-01. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20250602.01
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"Die Berufseinstiegsbegleitung steht auf dem Prüfstand. Mehrere Bundesländer sehen ihre Fortführung skeptisch oder führen aktuell Evaluationen durch. Verbände und Bildungsträger fordern eine Weiterführung des Programms, um sozial benachteiligte Jugendliche beim Übergang in den Ausbildungs- und Arbeitsmarkt zu unterstützen. Die vorliegende IAB-Studie zeigt, dass ehemalige Teilnehmer*innen zu Beginn ihres Berufslebens häufiger in einem Beschäftigungsverhältnis stehen und mehr verdienen als Personen einer Vergleichsgruppe." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Unemployment Scarring in the Early Career: Do Skills and Labour Demand Matter? (2025)
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Hänni, Miriam & Irene Kriesi (2025): Unemployment Scarring in the Early Career: Do Skills and Labour Demand Matter? In: Social Inclusion, Jg. 13. DOI:10.17645/si.9530
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"Rocky school-to-work transition processes, characterized by spells of unemployment and education–job mismatch, can have long-lasting scarring effects on young people and often lead to a loss of income and occupational status. However, the mechanisms that either foster or prevent unemployment scarring are underinvestigated. Our article thus asks whether vocational education and training (VET) diploma holders’ unemployment duration and the probability of status loss at labor market re-entry are affected by the interplay between occupation-specific labor demand and young workers’ skill sets acquired in VET. Our theoretical approach combines job search, human capital, and signalling theory with arguments from structural segmentation approaches. Our analyzes use complete national register data on VET diploma holders who became unemployed during their early careers. We combine national register data on unemployment spells with register data on education trajectories in Switzerland and occupation-specific labor demand data. Results from event-history analyzes indicate that unemployment episodes are associated with lower employment chances and higher risk of status loss of VET diploma holders. These general patterns are attenuated by occupation-specific labor demand and the skills taught in vocational training programmes. Re-employment chances are higher and the risk of status loss lower when occupation-specific labor demand is high and few of the accessible job opportunities offer lower status than the job before unemployment. Additionally, we find that workers who trained in occupations imparting large proportions of occupation-specific skills have a higher re-employment probability but also face a higher risk of status loss than those who trained in occupations imparting larger proportions of general skills. Our findings indicate a trade-off between occupation-specific skills and general skills." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Der Nutzen der Jugendberufshilfe am Beispiel der außerbetrieblichen Berufsausbildung (2025)
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Jepkens, Katja (2025): Der Nutzen der Jugendberufshilfe am Beispiel der außerbetrieblichen Berufsausbildung. In: Sozialmagazin H. 7/8, S. 60-66. DOI:10.3262/SM2508060
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"In der Jugendberufshilfe finden Fachkräfte besonders schwierige Rahmenbedingungen für die Umsetzung lebensweltorientierter Sozialer Arbeit vor: Das sozialpolitische Ziel der Herstellung von Beschäftigungsfähigkeit markiert ihren Auftrag und setzt ihr Grenzen. Der Beitrag fragt, wie junge Menschen in der Jugendberufshilfe dennoch Hilfreiches aus der sozialpädagogischen Unterstützung ziehen können." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Place Matters: Understanding Geographic Influences on Youth Not in Education, Employment, or Training - A Scoping Review (2025)
Lindblad, Victoria ; Melgaard, Dorte ; Lund, Rolf L. ; Møller Hansen, Line Elise ; Gaardsted, Pernille Skou ; Lauritzen, Fie Falk ;Zitatform
Lindblad, Victoria, Rolf L. Lund, Pernille Skou Gaardsted, Line Elise Møller Hansen, Fie Falk Lauritzen & Dorte Melgaard (2025): Place Matters: Understanding Geographic Influences on Youth Not in Education, Employment, or Training - A Scoping Review. In: Journal of Adolescence, Jg. 97, H. 3, S. 620-633. DOI:10.1002/jad.12461
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"Introduction: Youth aged 15–29 who are not engaged in education, employment, or training (NEET) represent a critical concern within the European Union (EU). Aim: This review aims to ascertain whether existing studies address the impact of living in either rural or urban settings, or in specific types of neighborhoods, on the likelihood of young European individuals falling into NEET status. Methods: On February 21, 2023, and subsequently updated on January 15, 2024, a thorough literature search was carried out across four major databases to compile relevant studies. Results: From an initial pool of 33,314 articles, 11 studies were deemed relevant for this review involving over 786,399 participants. The analysis revealed that residing in disadvantaged neighborhoods, characterized by significant crime rates and unemployment levels surpassing national averages, correlates strongly with an increased incidence of NEET status among youth. Notably, impoverished areas with a high presence of visible minorities were associated with higher rates of school dropout or unemployment. Furthermore, the conditions of the local labor market were found to notably affect dropout rates from secondary schools, especially in urban centers. Whereas rural areas exhibited elevated unemployment rates among the youth. Conclusions: This review underscores the need for targeted policies that address geographical disparities in NEET status by tailoring interventions to urban, rural, and neighborhood-specific contexts. Policymakers should focus on localized support programs and integrate geographical factors into strategic planning to ensure equitable opportunities for all youth." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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NEETs not needed: Zur Situation junger Menschen ohne Arbeits-, Ausbildungs- oder Schulplatz (2025)
Nixdorf, Christian Philipp;Zitatform
Nixdorf, Christian Philipp (2025): NEETs not needed: Zur Situation junger Menschen ohne Arbeits-, Ausbildungs- oder Schulplatz. In: Soziale Sicherheit, Jg. 74, H. 4, S. 22-26.
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"Jedes Jahr verlassen rund 50000 Jugendliche in Deutschland die Schule ohne Abschluss. Fast 630000 Menschen zwischen 15 und 24 Jahren befinden sich derzeit weder in Ausbildung, Erwerbstätigkeit oder Weiterbildung. Diesem gravierenden Missstand Abhilfe zu schaffen, ist nötig, aber auch herausfordernd, da die Betroffenen keine homogene Gruppe bilden. Was sind die Gründe für die Inaktivität, was deren Auswirkung? Wer ist besonders gefährdet, und was kann getan werden, um diese Menschen zu fördern?" (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Bund Verlag)
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Skilled Transitions: Digital Training Programmes as Active Labour Market Strategies in Rural Portugal (2025)
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Ribeiro, Ana Sofia, Leonor Bettencourt, Isabel Roque & João Carlos Sousa (2025): Skilled Transitions: Digital Training Programmes as Active Labour Market Strategies in Rural Portugal. In: Social Inclusion, Jg. 13. DOI:10.17645/si.10129
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"The transition from school to work in rural areas presents distinct challenges compared to urban environments, shaped by constraints on spatial mobility, limited employment opportunities, insufficient training provision, and cultural expectations, particularly concerning gender roles. The Covid-19 pandemic and the expansion of remote work initially appeared to mitigate some of these barriers for digitally literate individuals with access to adequate infrastructure. However, many young people in rural areas lack the necessary digital skills and reliable internet connectivity to engage in remote employment, rendering digitalization a potential obstacle rather than a facilitator of labor market integration. As a broader socio-economic process, digitalization has the potential to expand employment and training opportunities for young people. The pandemic accelerated the adoption of digital tools by public employment services, requiring significant adaptation by both service providers and users. In response, the Portuguese government has implemented a strategic framework encompassing training programs and internships aimed at unemployed individuals with at least the minimum level of mandatory education. Despite the benefits of digitalized services, rural NEETs (persons not in employment, education, or training) frequently require more personalized, in-person support to navigate labor market barriers effectively. This study adopts a comparative approach to examine two active employment programmes targeting unemployed young adults in rural Portugal: one centered on remote digital training and the other on digital upskilling through internships. Through document analysis and semi-structured interviews with public employment services technicians, mentors, and NEETs aged 25–30, the findings underscore the relevance of these interventions, particularly for highly educated NEETs experiencing skills mismatches." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Assessing the impact of the Youth Employment Initiative in European regions (2025)
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Scandurra, Rosario & Ruggero Cefalo (2025): Assessing the impact of the Youth Employment Initiative in European regions. In: Journal of Social Policy, S. 1-22. DOI:10.1017/s0047279425101001
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"Youth unemployment has been a primary concern for the European countries, especially after the 2008 Great Recession. In 2013 a Recommendation of the Council of the European Union established the Youth Guarantee (YG) as a political commitment to ensure that all young people receive a high-quality offer of employment, training or continued education within 4 months of becoming unemployed. To financially support the implementation of the YG in European countries and regions, the EU turned to the European Social Fund and created the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI). The YEI used regional disparities as a guiding criterion for the allocation of resources, but it has not been assessed at the regional level. We fill this gap by assessing the impact of the YEI on the labour market and educational outcomes of young people in EU regions that received funding between 2014 and 2018. The findings demonstrate that the YEI had a positive impact on youth opportunities in EU regions, supporting labour market integration and the return to education and training." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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- Ergebnisse aus dem IAB
- Gesamtbetrachtungen
- Determinanten
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Strategien
- Aktive Arbeitsmarktprogramme
- Beschäftigungsförderung - Förderung der Beschäftigungsfähigkeit
- Maßnahmen zur Bildung und Weiterbildung
- "Assistierte Ausbildung"
- Förderung der Mobilität auf dem Arbeitsmarkt
- "Jugendgarantie" - überbetriebliches Ausbildungsangebot
- Vernetzung der Akteure - Jugendberufsagenturen
- Geografischer Bezug