Young people find jobs earlier

Citation

(1999), "Young people find jobs earlier", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 23 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/jeit.1999.00323aab.006

Young people find jobs earlier

Young people find jobs earlier

Keywords Europe, Unemployment, Young people

Young jobless people in the EU tend to find work a little more quickly than their elders, according to a recent Eurostat report. Data from spring 1996 indicate that 62 per cent of unemployed people aged 15-24 have been looking for work for more than six months, compared to 68 per cent of those aged 25-59. Young people are more likely to be unemployed (22 per cent) than their elders (10 per cent) but they remain jobless for a shorter period on average. Little differences exist between Member States. In Denmark, Austria and Finland, for example, more than 40 per cent of young unemployed people had been out of work for less than three months. This contrasts sharply with seven per cent in Italy and The Netherlands (34 per cent in the UK). More than half had been unemployed for more than a year in Greece and Italy (25 per cent in the UK).