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Entrepreneurship and Youth Unemployment

In: Social Innovation

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  • Caroline Jenner

    (CEO JA-YE Europe (SVP Europe, JA Worldwide))

Abstract

The welfare of a community depends on the employability of its young people. The primary objective of an education system is to prepare youth to participate in society and the economy. But in too many European countries, youth unemployment rates have skyrocketed to more than double the national average. Young people are among the most vulnerable in an economic crisis—unlikely to get hired and the first to be let go. Our school systems are struggling to adapt to the pace of change in skills and jobs, and crisis conditions have increased the pressure. Designed to educate people for a mass labor market, our schools must now also prepare students to create opportunities of their own, become entrepreneurs and more proactive participants in job creation. Both policy makers and the private sector are looking for solutions that will speed up the process of changing mindsets to embrace entrepreneurship more. Education systems are naturally slow-movers and Europe’s start-up rates remain stubbornly low.

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  • Caroline Jenner, 2013. "Entrepreneurship and Youth Unemployment," CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, in: Thomas Osburg & René Schmidpeter (ed.), Social Innovation, edition 127, pages 217-227, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-642-36540-9_19
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36540-9_19
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