Ways out of youth unemployment : from unemployment into an employment or training measure?

Abstract

"Employment and training measures funded through labour market policy are gaining in importance quantitatively in the transition process of young people from general education into employment. Not least the Federal Government's immediate action programme to reduce youth unemployment, which came into force in 1999, has contributed to this. Which young people end their unemployment by transferring into a subsidised training or employment measure? A survey of 2000 young unemployed people who were registered with the Federal Employment Services between 1998 and 1999 for longer than three months shows that the transition process follows complex patterns. Young people experience unemployment at different places on their way into employment. These transition patterns in turn affect the probability of starting training, entering employment or participating in an employment or training scheme during the further career. According to results of a multivariate logit analysis, individual, biographical, origin-related and regional characteristics have an effect. With the aid of a Cox model, the time dependence of the transition events is shown, which varies equally with individual, origin-specific and regional characteristics and defines opportunities for the further career." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Dietrich, H. (2001): Wege aus der Jugendarbeitslosigkeit. Von der Arbeitslosigkeit in die Maßnahme? In: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Vol. 34, No. 4, p. 419-439.