The Mirage of Youth Unemployment

The problem of high youth unemployment is certainly not confined to the developing world, however.

The high level of unemployment among young people is of particular concern.

Serbia and Montenegro notes that the unemployment rate is higher among young people with high levels of education.

Unemployment is up.

Unemployment (youth)

Moreover, one must ask how much youth unemployment contributes to total unemployment.

Unemployment (youths) b

And unemployment hovers above 10 , with youth unemployment far higher, at roughly 25 .

Youth unemployment in Spain, for example, is above 50 .

Youth unemployment worldwide has increased during the past decade.

Unemployment has risen to a record 11.2 , with 35 of young people jobless.

Unemployment stands at about 12 in Italy, and 38 for the young.

Likewise, Spain s unemployment rate is above 25 (and 55 for young people).

Europe already feared that rising youth unemployment in the region would create dangerous instability along Europe s southern flank.

High figures persist for unemployment and underemployment.

In Spain and Greece, unemployment is approaching 30 , while youth unemployment is nearing a staggering 60 .

Unemployment stands at about 12 , and is probably twice as high among young people.

Young people are particularly vulnerable to unemployment.

Young people have the highest rates of unemployment and are in many ways the most vulnerable to the social depredations caused by unemployment and poverty.

Greece s youth unemployment rate now exceeds 60 , and Spain s is above 50 .

The Committee notes with concern the trend of rising youth unemployment rates and the rise in long term unemployment.

Comparing countries, there was no relationship between either the depth and duration of the output collapse and the increase in levels of protection, or the magnitude of the rise in unemployment and the extent of protectionism.

Key trends in emerging market economies include high and increasing unemployment and low employment rates.

The overall unemployment rate (12 ) has yet to peak, led by an alarming lack of jobs among the young (24 joblessness in the eurozone as a whole, with highs of 59 and 56 in Greece and Spain, respectively).

In addition, the issue of urban unemployment, especially among youth, will be given special attention.

We cannot ignore high unemployment.

young, in particular, as a result of unemployment, explained the increase in juvenile crime.

Consider Spain, which has an unemployment rate of 20 and more than 40 among young people.

In Italy and Spain, growth is negative, and youth unemployment is 35 and 55 , respectively.

The result is a growing youth unemployment crisis among poor and working class youth.

Unemployment remains far too high, with alarming levels of long term and youth joblessness.

The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen measures to tackle the problem of long term unemployment and unemployment among young people.

It also notes with concern the rise in long term unemployment and the large share of young people below 25 among the unemployed.

Stubbornly high youth unemployment, along with Europe s dwindling numbers of school leavers, is already canceling out the positive effects of immigration.

At the same time, technological unemployment has been on the rise.

As unemployment rates have risen, so has the incidence of drug abuse by the unemployed and underemployed.

Youth unemployment rates are typically two to three times higher than for others, and young women are particularly at risk.

Labor market experts thus consider the unemployment rate a potentially misleading indicator, because a youth unemployment rate of 50 does not mean that half of the young population is unemployed. That is why one should look at the unemployment ratio the percentage of the unemployed in the reference population rather than at the unemployment rate.

Unemployment is unacceptably high, and is still rising.

Unemployment is 16 and rising.

This helps to explain the high level of unemployment in the Arab world.

In that case, Germany would bear the brunt of the rise in unemployment.

Iraqi statistics, which define unemployment more expansively, show rates in percent declining from the mid twenties to the teens in the past two years.

Eurostat, the European Union s statistical agency, calculates youth unemployment using both methodologies, but only the flawed indicator is widely reported, despite major discrepancies.