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Business, as usual: the policy priorities of the World Bank's discourses on youth unemployment, and the global financial crisis

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Business, as usual: the policy priorities of the World Bank's discourses on youth unemployment, and the global financial crisis

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The authors, who come from the Open University, deeply analyse the policy discourses of the World Bank (WB) concerning youth unemployment by means of using discourse theory which emphasize the ways of constructing particular meanings by utilising language and its narrative devices. They find that the WB connects the youth unemployment with inadequate skills, employment protection laws, youth bulge, and criminal activity, and the market then has nothing to do with unemployment problem. By recognising the neo-liberal values and practices, free markets become the fair arbiter in terms of the level of wage. Personal choices and the individual limitations turn into the determinant of youth unemployment, and the economy in the context of neo-liberalism forms the power in shaping the direction of youth unemployment policy making. In conclusion, even if the WB tries to lead the social policy-making, the emergence of increasingly empowered global policy sphere (the United Nations and its social agencies) which advocates a rights-based model makes the WB’s dream harder to realise.

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Generation Jobless: The Challenge of Global Youth Unemployment

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Generation Jobless: The Challenge of Global Youth Unemployment

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Generation Jobless: The Challenge of Global Youth Unemployment

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Global youth unemployment is a tremendous challenge facing the 3.5 billion people around the world who are under age 27. Our Generation Jobless report provides an overview of the challenge, examines in detail the effects and consequences, and highlights some of the necessary actors and actions to address the problem.

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Improving soft skills and communication inresponse to youth unemployment

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Improving soft skills and communication inresponse to youth unemployment

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It is reported that unemployment rate of graduate youth is relative high in South Africa, this reflective article mainly focuses on examining what methods can be used to enhance the communication ability and soft skills so as to improve their employability. The communication gaps existing in unemployed youth, according to the author, could result from academic courses the youth had which focus on theories and models. Effective strategies mentioned in this paper include business simulation, role plays, in-class presentations, cooperative learning in small groups, as well as case studies or problem-based learning and so on. In conclusion, the author argued that communication skill needed in job seeking should be a cooperative work involving all the stakeholders in education: students, parents, higher education institutions, business and government.

There’s no doubt that communication skill plays an irreplaceable role in both life and workplace.

By analysing specific examples to explain and teach how to communicate effectively and appropriately, more detailed information about improving communication skills is provided despite relatively narrowed. Also, the connections among specific communication skills, general conclusion and youth unemployment is to some extent implicit, which weaken the persuasion of the argument the author make at the beginning.

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World of Work Summit: The Youth Employment Challenge

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World of Work Summit: The Youth Employment Challenge

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World of Work Summit: The Youth Employment Challenge

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Unemployment benefits and parental resources: what helps the youngunemployed with labour market integration?

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Unemployment benefits and parental resources: what helps the youngunemployed with labour market integration?

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In this paper, the author uses the data gathered from a longitudinal study on youth unemployment in Germany to examine whether the individuals who have access to different resources will enter more stable jobs after unemployment than those lacking such different kinds of support. He found that those who lack financial support and vacancy information are more likely to change jobs or be dismissed. However, what is interesting is that parental resources might have an adverse effect on young unemployed people that they are more likely to quit a job automatically than those who are not supported by their parents. On the other hand, those who receive unemployment benefits have a more stable job in post-unemployment period in comparison with those without support from the society.

It is totally understandable that young people who receive unemployment compensation benefits value their new jobs more after unemployment period because they use great endeavour to acquire this kind of financial support. In contrast, there will be less difficult for youth to receive supporting from parents, which might potentially provide opportunities to re-enter unemployment at any time. However, as what Furlong (2013) said in his book, parental support might also make a difference in helping youth shape confidence and self-esteem as well as avoiding certain degree of psycho-social disorders, which might eventually contribute to a longer job tenure.

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In the best interests of youth or neoliberalism? The World Bank and the New Global Youth Empowerment Project

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In the best interests of youth or neoliberalism? The World Bank and the New Global Youth Empowerment Project

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Just a phase? Youth unemployment in the Republic of Ireland

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Just a phase? Youth unemployment in the Republic of Ireland

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Preparing for uncertain careers: How youth deal with growing occupational uncertainties before the education-to-work transition

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Preparing for uncertain careers: How youth deal with growing occupational uncertainties before the education-to-work transition

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This study investigates how youth who are experiencing the education-to-work transition respond to career preparation in the environment of globalisation pressures and uncertainties.  In order to answer this research question, the researchers analyse the data gathered from two closely matched samples of youth aged from 16 to 25 years from Germany and Poland and then compare the levels, sources of individual differences, as well as individual differences in goal engagement and disengagement strategies that youth may use to deal with the situation of occupational uncertainties. The research findings show that although both countries have the same preference for goal engagement and many cross-national similarities, there still exists some differences which result from cultural differences and economic and institutional context. Overall, this paper not only provides us with a deductive research which tries to testify the hypotheses the researchers make but also have the potential functions to motivate youth’s engagement through suggested methods when they are facing uncertain occupation in the future.

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Young people and the jobs crisis in numbers

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Young people and the jobs crisis in numbers

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Youth unemployment rate report after 2007

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Young people and the jobs crisis in numbers

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Animated graphs showing the impact of the crisis on young people and the outlook in the months ahead

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What we talk about when we talk about youth unemployment - TEDx

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What we talk about when we talk about youth unemployment - TEDx

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What we talk about when we talk about youth unemployment | Catalina Buciu | TEDxNicosia

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Youth unemployment, its definition and the consequences of higher eduction. Catalina grew up in Romania, believing that loving one's country means never leaving it and trying to make it better from within. Through her travels, she had tracked seven different ways to run the tap water in public toilets & she was mesmerized by what the world had to offer.

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Family Income and Wealth, Youth Unemploymentand Active Labour Market Policies

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Family Income and Wealth, Youth Unemploymentand Active Labour Market Policies

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Furlong, A., 2013. Youth studies an introduction

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Furlong, A., 2013. Youth studies an introduction

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The author, Andy Furlong is a professor at the University of Glasgow and an educational sociologist. His book Youth Studies provides us a systematic introduction from the concept of youth to a serious of related problems like lifestyles, cultures, crime, education and (un)employment. In the chapter 4 (Employment and unemployment), a good argument is made by the author that nowadays young people prefer to increase the length of education, which result in qualification inflation that makes it harder for under-educated youth to pursue career. What is more interesting is that qualification inflation also makes condition for these young people. It is also said that the employers tend to recruit fresh school or college leavers compared with those who have been unemployed for some time. However, coming back to the context of China, the reason for this situation is that fresh students are malleable and energetic towards the job which is slightly different with the author’s views on minimum wages and the so called ‘stigma’ (Furlong, 2013: 79).

The author argues that from the perspective of psychology, the experience of unemployment can influence young people’s confidence and self-esteem and might cause psycho-social disorders. So he suggests that those with social financial support and social contact could help youth to cope with problems psychologically.

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What Works in Youth Employment - Skills Training

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What Works in Youth Employment - Skills Training

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What Works in Youth Employment - Skills Training

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Closing Session: Addressing the Challenges of Youth Employment: Issues and Policy Implications

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Closing Session: Addressing the Challenges of Youth Employment: Issues and Policy Implications

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Closing Session: Addressing the Challenges of Youth Employment: Issues and Policy Implications

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7th IZA/World Bank Conference on Employment and Development: Policy Forum Chair: Arup Banerji (World Bank and IZA) Panelists Stefano Scarpetta (Deputy Director, OECD and IZA) Ravi Kanbur (T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, Professor of Economics Cornell University and IZA) Klaus F.