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The Dynamics of Marginalized Youth: Not in Education, Employment, or Training Around the World book cover

1st Edition

The Dynamics of Marginalized Youth Not in Education, Employment, or Training Around the World

Edited By Mark Levels, Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Craig Holmes, Janine Jongbloed, Hirofumi Taki Copyright 2022
316 Pages 78 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

316 Pages 78 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book studies young people who are Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET); a prime concern among policymakers. Moving past common interpretations of NEETs as a homogeneous group, it asks why some youth become NEET, whereas other do not. The authors analyse diverse school-to-work patterns of young NEETs in five typical countries and investigate the role of individual... Read more

1 Not in Employment, Education, or Training around the World

Mark Levels, Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Craig Holmes, Janine Jongbloed, and Hirofumi Taki

2 NEET during the School-to-Work Transition in the Netherlands

Alexander Dicks and Mark Levels

3 NEET in Germany: Labour Market Entry Patterns and Gender Differences

Christian Brzinsky-Fay

4 Patterns in NEET Statuses during the School-to-Work Transition in France

Magali Danner, Jean-François Giret, Christine Guegnard, Janine Jongbloed and Olivier Joseph

5 NEETs in England

Craig Holmes, Liam Wright, Emily Murphy, Ken Mayhew, Ewart Keep and Sue Maguire

6 NEET in Japan: Focusing on Gender and Cohort

Mei Kagawa, Hirofumi Taki, Tomohiko Moriyama and Fumiaki Ojima

7 Policy Interventions Targeting NEETs in Different Institutional Settings

Sue Maguire, Mark Levels, Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Janine Jongbloed, and Hirofumi Taki

8 The Role of Education Systems in Preventing NEETs

Lynn Van Vugt, Rolf Van Der Velden, Mark Levels, and Christian Brzinsky-Fay

9 Can Labour Market Policies Help to Reduce Long-Term NEETs?

Lynn Van Vugt and Mark Levels

10 How Long-Term NEET are Explained by Family Policies in OECD Countries

Lynn Van Vugt, Mark Levels and Janine Jongbloed

11 Conclusions and Discussion

Janine Jongbloed, Mark Levels and Christian Brzinsky-Fay

Biography

Mark Levels is Professor of Health, Education and Work at Maastricht University and Program Director at the Research Centre for Education and the Labor Market (ROA) and Fellow of the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB).

Christian Brzinsky-Fay is Research Fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center and Scientific Research Coordinator of the Doctoral College "Good Work: Approaches to Shaping Tomorrow's World of Work."

Craig Holmes is a labour economist and Departmental Lecturer in Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford.

Janine Jongbloed is a researcher at the Institute for Research on Education: Sociology and Economics of Education (IREDU) at the University of Burgundy in France and the University of British Columbia in Canada.

Hirofumi Taki is Associate Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Hosei University, Japan.

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