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Designing Active Labor Market Policies to Tackle Youth Unemployment

In: Generation Jobless?

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  • Peter Vogel

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What if one percent of the bailout money that policymakers paid to bail out those who caused the recent financial crisis had been invested in youth employment initiatives? Would we still be seeing these exorbitant youth unemployment rates around the world? That is a question I had asked myself a few years back while writing an essay for the St. Gallen Symposium (Vogel, 2010). In 2013, at the verge of a generational meltdown, European policymakers finally started to make a move in this direction with large-scale programs such as the Youth Guarantee. But the question is whether such a reactive move could have been anticipated in order to avoid the situation we are in right now if policymakers had given youth a greater priority and not just those who have the biggest lobbying power? I guess that the question “could we have avoided it?” is asked after all major catastrophes.

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  • Peter Vogel, 2015. "Designing Active Labor Market Policies to Tackle Youth Unemployment," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Generation Jobless?, chapter 0, pages 176-203, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-37594-0_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137375940_7
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