The Europeanisation of Vocational Education and Training

  • In recent times, the “lost generation” is discussed widely in public debates. The “lost generation” is the young generation in Southern Europe: In Spain and in Greece, more than half of all young people are unemployed. In Croatia, Italy, Cyprus and Portugal, it is more than one third. With such difficulties in finding entry positions in the labour market, the young generation is faced with an insecure future. Without a job, it is difficult to be independent or to start a family: thus, both the personal and the economic independence suffer. Unemployment in the beginning of a career is likely to hamper career perspectives also in the middle and long run, and hereby leads to diffi-culties in saving for retirement. In this generation, unemployment hits everybody: university graduates who are perceived to be overqualified – or those who left school early in order to take a well-paid job in booming industries such as the construction sector in Spain. No matter the indi-vidual reason: a generation is deprived of their hopes. [...]

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Document Type:Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Author(s):Christine Ante
Advisor:Anke Hassel
Referee:Klaus HurrelmannORCiD
Subtitle (English):A political economy of skills perspective
Hertie Collections (Serial Number):Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School (01/2015)
Publication year:2015
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
Granting Institution:Hertie School
Thesis date:2015/06/24
Number pages:VII, 322
Release Date:2017/08/07
Tag:Education -- Economic aspects; Education and state; European Union; Labor economics; Political economy; Political science
Notes:
Shelf mark: 2015D005 + 2015D005+1
Hertie School Research:Publications PhD Researchers
Licence of document (German):CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
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