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School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
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16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

DIRECTORATE FOR EMPLOYMENT, LABOUR AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS

EMPLOYMENT, LABOUR AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

OECD SOCIAL, EMPLOYMENT AND MIGRATION PAPERS, NO. 106

 

RISING YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT DURING THE CRISIS: HOW TO PREVENT NEGATIVE

LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES ON A GENERATION?

Stefano Scarpetta, Anne Sonnet and Thomas Manfredi

http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2010doc.nsf/LinkTo/NT000028DE/$FILE/JT03281808.PDF

[full-text, 34 pages]

 

Press Release

Governments must tackle rising youth unemployment, says OECD

http://www.oecd.org/document/49/0,3343,en_2649_34487_45008113_1_1_1_1,00.html

 

15/04/2010 - “The short term prospects for youth unemployment in the OECD countries remain rather gloomy”, according to a new OECD working paper.

 

Unemployment among young people is set to keep rising in the months ahead and stay at the same high double digit level across the OECD to the end of  2011. “Many unemployed youth are likely to experience a prolonged period of joblessness.”

 

Youth unemployment rates in Europe will remain close to 20% well into 2011, according to forecasts based on the OECD’s November 2009 Economic Outlook.

 

AND MUCH MORE….

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