The Labour Market Impacts of a Youth Guarantee: Lessons for Europe?

Hämäläinen, Kari; Hämäläinen, Ulla; Tuomala, Juha

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2571259

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“…It must be considered that NEETs as a heterogeneous target group, often with complex problems, require more flexible services in cooperation with other sectors and institutions. Therefore, according to Hämäläinen, Hämälainen, and Tuomala (2014), keeping the national guidelines from limiting cooperation and communicating those clearly to different parties must be a conscious effort when collectively solving cross-sectoral cases. As stated by Hämäläinen et al (2014), existing and future precepts must be considered when creating support measures for NEET youth so that the documents are harmonised and do not cancel each other out.…”

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“…Disadvantaged youth benefit from various targeted interventions, including alternative educational programmes and mentorship (OECD 2015b). At the same time, it is evident that the most vulnerable youths still require additional programmes, which can help them acquire the skills they need for entering education or the labour market (Thompson 2011;OECD 2015b;Hämäläinen, Hämälainen and Tuomala 2014). Research has also indicated that insufficient financing exists for the YG, which could create negative side effects for other social policies and the development of a country in general (Cabasés Piqué, Pardell Veà and Strecker 2016).…”

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State level agreed-upon factors contributing to more effective policymaking for public sector services for effective local-level work with NEETs

Paabort

Beilmann

2021

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Supporting young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) represents a new global policy challenge. There is a need to increase knowledge about policymaking connected to multidisciplinary approaches in order to provide better services for NEET youth. This study focuses on interpretations by specialists in the youth field in Estonia regarding the current public policy support system for NEETs and the associated factors affecting the achievement of policy goals. Based on document analysis and semi-structured interviews with specialists from all levels of the national NEET support system, this study demonstrates that the cross-sectoral and multi-level public policy system for NEETs lacks sufficient understanding of the central aims. The support strategy is, rather, created for use within a single structure and does not have a common meaning from a system-wide perspective. State-level coordinating parties need a common understanding at the beginning of policy creation concerning the system’s long-term aims, information flow and performance, agreed-upon roles transcending sectors, and process management across structures. This change would enable better outreach and integrated services at the local level and be accurately based on the needs of youth with heterogeneous backgrounds whilst avoiding barriers at the individual case level. Keywords: NEET; policy creation; policy coordination; information flow; multidisciplinary service; Youth Guarantee; Estonia. ······ Sprijinirea tinerilor care nu se află nici în sistemul educațional nici în cel ocupațional sau de pregătire (NEET) reprezintă o provocare globală de tip nou. Există o nevoie de a spori cunoașterea asupra design-ul politicilor, în conexiune cu abordarea multidiciplinară, spre a pune la dispoziție servicii mai bune celor NEET. Acest articol se concentrează pe interpretările specialiștilor în domeniul tineretului din Estonia cu privire la sistemul actual de politici publice pentru NEET și la factorii asociați care influențează îndeplinirea scopurilor acestor politici. Pe baza analizelor de documente și a interviurilor semi-structurate cu specialiști de la toate nivelurile din sistemul de suport NEET, acest studiu demonstrează că politicile publice cros-sectoriale și de multinivel din Estonia duc lipsă de înțelegerea pe deplin a problemelor centrale. Strategia de suport este creată, mai degrabă, pentru a fi folosită într-o singură structură și nu are un înțeles comun cu perspectivă largă, de sistem global. Părțile care coordonează aceste strategii de la nivel de autoritate de stat necesită o înțelegere globală de la începutul creării politicilor cu privire la scopurile pe termen lung ale sistemului, cu privire la fluxul de informații și la performanțe, să se pună de comun acord asupra rolurilor transsectoriale și asupra proceselor manageriale transstructurale. Această schimbare va permite o mai bună putere de pătrundere a acestor servicii integrate la nivel local și o centrare mai precisă pe nevoile tinerilor cu backgrounduri diferite, în timp ce barierele diferitelor cazuri individuale vor fi evitate. Cuvinte-cheie: NEET; design de politici; coordonare de politici; flux de informații; servicii multidisciplinare; Youth Guarantee; Estonia.

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State level agreed-upon factors contributing to more effective policymaking for public sector services for effective local-level work with NEETs

Paabort

Beilmann

2021

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“…Studies have shown that young people who are more disadvantaged benefit from a variety of targeted interventions, including special education programmes and mentoring (Carcillo & Königs, 2015). However, it is recognised that the most vulnerable young people still need additional specialised programmes to help them acquire the skills necessary to enter education or the labour market (Hämäläinen et al, 2014;Thompson, 2011).…”

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“…It has been found that the low skills of service providers (or the fulfilment of the goals of their institution alone) can create additional barriers for young people (Beck, 2015). It is also pointed out that when new support measures are created for NEETs, the consistency of existing and planned prescriptions must be respected so that they do not exclude each other (Hämäläinen et al, 2014).…”

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Manual for the classification of intervention best-practices with rural NEETs

Bojnec¹,

Erdoğan²,

Fernandes‐Jesus³

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targeting rural NEETs. In my opinion, this is the most outstanding contribution of this manual, and also an original one, considering that to date no other efforts have been made with the intention of developing a grid of how to describe interventions dealing with rural NEETs. This manual offers, therefore, valuable contributions for upcoming research efforts within and beyond RNYN, including: (a) a complete methodological framework for future case stu-dies; (b) practical tools to conduct field research than can be combined with many different methodological approaches (qualitative, mixed-methods, etc.); and, (c) strategic criteria for conducting research in complex settings such as community-based programs. In addition, this manual sets the necessary conditions to present evidence-based conclusions about programs targeting rural NEETs, further aiding policy-makers to opt for solutions that clearly produce better results. This manual would not have been possible without the efforts and best knowledge from its editorial team. Therefore, as the Chair of RNYN, but also in a more personal note, I would like to thank Claudia Petrescu, Emre Erdogan and Paul Flynn for the impeccable and rigorous way in which they conducted all the process. I would also like to thank the Working Group 2 mem-bers traversing many countries who contributed to this document.

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“…Contrafactual impact evaluations of the targeting and effectiveness of the programs implemented under YG are scarce (e.g., Bratti et al, 2018, Hämäläinen, Hämäläinen, & Tuomala, 2014. The available studies indicate positive but statistically insignificant effects of vocational training on labour market outcomes of youth in Latvia and positive effects of the YG program in Finland for youth with higher secondary education but no effects for the more vulnerable youth.…”

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Why targeting matters: The apprenticeship program for youth in the Czech Republic

Hora

Sirovátka

2020

Soc Policy Adm

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In this paper, we analyze the targeting and outcomes of the apprenticeship program implemented under the Youth Guarantee/YG scheme in the Czech Republic. We examine the outcomes and targeting using counterfactual impact evaluation (quasi-experimental design) of the apprenticeship program on the basis of administrative data from the Czech Employment Office. The implementation strategy is analyzed using various policy documents. The findings indicate that the program is apparently targeted at those groups of young people who are less disadvantaged as regards education level and previous unemployment experience. At the same time, paradoxically, the effects in terms of outflows from the unemployment register are weak for the short-term and medium-term unemployed, as well as for low-skilled and high-skilled youth, and stronger effects are evident in the case of long-term unemployed and medium-skilled youth. The failures in targeting and in adjusting the program to the needs of more vulnerable groups of youth are due to an inconsistent implementation strategy of Czech Public Employment Services.

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The Labour Market Impacts of a Youth Guarantee: Lessons for Europe?

Cited by 8 publications

References 23 publications

State level agreed-upon factors contributing to more effective policymaking for public sector services for effective local-level work with NEETs

State level agreed-upon factors contributing to more effective policymaking for public sector services for effective local-level work with NEETs

Manual for the classification of intervention best-practices with rural NEETs

Why targeting matters: The apprenticeship program for youth in the Czech Republic

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