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ITUC – PERC/ FES Conference ”Youth Employment: breaking gender barriers for young women and men” Warsaw (Poland), October 2010 Youth on the labour market in Europe – challenges and perspectives Daniela Aleksieva, KNSB/CITUB President of PERC Youth Committee

Demography – key figures: Currently 96 million young people aged live in the EU Young people aged constitute 19.4 % of the total population within the EU (a fifth) Projected share of young people aged in 2050 → 15.3 % of Europe's total population These demographic changes affect families, intergenerational solidarity and economic growth

Global economic and financial crisis  Puts further pressure on the labour market opportunities for the young people: difficulties in entering the labour market; often forced to work in precarious working conditions and on atypical labour contracts; rapidly decreasing chance for decent jobs. This makes their job prospects depressing and does not allow them to be fully integrated into society  The crisis has merely exacerbated the year on year trend of increasing “flexibility”, which has mean worsening job opportunities for young workers. Young women in particular pay the price of job market flexibility. They suffer double discrimination – for being young and to being women.

Young labour market in Europe prior to the crisis

Data for the period 2000 – 2008 shows: Decline of youth labour force participation rates: - 2.4% in EU countries and -1.3 % in Eastern Europe; Decrease of employment-to-population ratios: - 2.5% in industrialized countries and - 2% in Eastern Europe; Increase of youth unemployment rates: % in EU and % in Eastern Europe; Youth-to-adult unemployment ratios ranging from 2.8 for the EU to 3 for Eastern Europe.

Even during the previous period of economic growth, most countries failed to create enough decent and productive jobs for young people. The most salient aspect of the decent work deficits of young people in Europe is precariousness in the form of temporary employment and the high incident of part-time jobs. The countries of Central, South-East Europe and the CIS face the additional burden of large numbers of young workers being over-represented in the informal economy, or under-employed and employed as contributing (unpaid) family workers.

Young labour market in Europe and the crisis (Key global and regional trends)

Eurostat` data and ILO Report “Global Employment Trends for Youth 2010” show that the economic crisis has had a dramatic impact on the challenges facing young people seeking jobs. Key global and regional trends concerning the labour market indicators for youth:  2009 → of some 620 million economically active youth aged , 81 million were unemployed (the highest number ever) million unemployed young people in EU  Global youth unemployment rate rose from 11.9 % to 13 % between 2007 and 2009, an increase of 7.8 million. - In Developed Economies and the EU - youth unemployment rates increased by 4.6 percentage points between 2008 and 2009 (in 2009 → 17.7 % - the highest rate that the region has seen); - In Central and South-Eastern Europe (non-EU) and CIS - youth unemployment rates increased by 3.5 percentage points between 2008 and 2009;

 Youth unemployment rate higher than total rate in most of the European countries. August 2010: Total unemployment rate for EU-27 – 9.6 % Youth unemployment rate in Austria– 8.5 % Youth unemployment in Spain – 41.6 % Total unemployment rate in Austria- 4.3 % Total unemployment in Spain – 20.5 %  Compare to adults, young women and men are two to three times more likely to be unemployed → the annual results for unemployment rate in the EU27 shows that for those aged it was 24.2 % (5.15 million unemployed young people), which is significantly higher than the total unemployment rate of 8.9 %.

 ILO Forecast for 2010 and : the global youth unemployment rate is expected to continue its increase and to reach 13.1 % 2011: - for almost all regions, slight improvements are forecast as compared with the peak unemployed year (2010); - the largest decrease (1 percentage point) in youth unemployment rates is expected for Central and SEE (non-EU) and CIS; percentage points decrease – for Developed Economies and EU However, the projected rate of 18.2 % in 2011 would still be higher than was ever seen in the pre-crisis period ( )

 Young people are more exposed to poverty than other age groups 2008: - an estimated 152 million young people ( or 28 % of all the young workers in the world), worked but remained in extreme poverty in households surviving on less than US$ 1.25 per person per day; - in EU each one in five young people living at risk of poverty (share the persons with an income below 60 % of the national minimum incomes)

 Young women have more difficulties than young men in finding work Global trend: the female youth unemployment rate in 2009 stood at 13.2 % compare to the male rate of 12.9 % (a gap of 0.3 percentage points); Regional trends: - in most regions, young women continued to be the hardest hit by unemployment; - only in Developed Economies and EU were young males harder hit - the increase in the male youth unemployment rate between 2007 and 2009 was 6.8 percentage points compare to 3.9 points for young women.

 The ratio of young people working on temporary contracts or even without contracts is growing, and this is now regarded as “normal” employment in many European countries. In 2009 around 30 % of young workers (15-24) in EU are employed in temporary work: % - young people in full-time temporary work; ` % - young people in part-time temporary work Figures about permanent work: % - young people in full-time permanent work; % - young people in part-time permanent work  In 2009 the incidence of part-time work (as % of employment) among young people in the EU is 22.3 %. Between 1/3 and 1/4 of those people do so involuntary.  Young workers are less paid compare to the adult workers

Additionally challenges and barriers concerning education, employment, inclusion and health of young women and men in Europe

 The phenomenon “early school leavers” is decreasing at EU level, but still existing. - Countries with highest values: Malta, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Cyprus; -Countries with lowest values: Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland and Czech Republic. -The average value of “early school levers” is now standing at 14.8 % in the EU with the following gender dimensions: 12,7 % - for women 16.9 % - for men

 The transition from school to work is one of the biggest obstacles in this employment crisis is the → with shrinking labour markets millions of young graduates have little chance of getting decent jobs. (Some begin working too early, other cannot enter the work force, still other get stuck in low productivity work.)  20 % of the young people aged in EU combine studding and working.  Equal access to quality educational and training for girls and boys remains the best start to finding decent work. However, even where young women`s education levels are the same or higher than men`s, young women face more difficulties in the transition to working life because of continued labour market discrimination

 Young job seekers, particularly women, are often discriminated by employers, in terms of remuneration, career prospects and family and lifestyle choices.  The widespread use of “internships”, “traineeships” and “probation period” are not contributing to the achievements to stable, decent jobs for young people.  A key employment challenge is tackling occupational segregation of traditionally accepted “male” and “female” jobs, and to break the gender barriers in opening up professionals to both sexes

 A significant proportion of the younger generation are excluded from “ordinary” life, since they are neither in school nor in work, nor again registered as unemployed. (Large number of young people are simply being forgotten by societies.)  Young women are more often, than men are facing hard choice: work or family.  Young women, by a large majority, continue to assume most family responsibilities and resign themselves to accepting part-time jobs that allow them to combine family and work responsibilities.

 Thousands of young women in Europe do not yet enjoy the basic maternity protection guaranteed by the standards of the ILO, as the legislation of several countries offers only partial and limited guarantees. Young women are subjected to numerous forms of discrimination.  Young women and men constitute a major part of the migrant worker population, going abroad to find a better future. In most cases the young women work in the informal economy (babysitters, cleaners, house maids etc.) Barriers in education, employment, inclusion and health, further combine to the problems in finance, housing or transport, make it difficult for young people to achieve autonomy, a situation where they have the resources and opportunities to manage their own lives, fully participate in society and decide independently

How to fight the youth unemployment? How is youth unemployment measured? How is youth unemployment composed? How high is youth unemployment? What are the causes of youth unemployment?

How high is youth unemployment? – it`s naturally higher than the general unemployment; What are the causes of youth unemployment? – e.g. demographic effects; failures in the educational system; seniority rules in dismissal situations disfavors younger workers; employment protection is too strick; entry level wages are too high etc. How is youth unemployment measured? – need to focus on two groups: unemployed, not full-time students and discouraged youth

How is youth unemployment measured? (1) Outside the labour force Unemployed Employed All youth aged In the labour force Youth unemployment = unemployed as a percentage of young people in the labour force Majority are students, but not all students are outside the labour force

How is youth unemployment measured? (2) Outside the labour force Unemployed Employed Unemployed, not full-time students Full-time students All youth aged 15-24Unemployed aged Discouraged youth

WORK Discouraged youth Lack of education Lack of experience Frictional unemployment SOCIAL EXCLUSION Focus for analysis and action ”Job ready” How is youth unemployment composed? WORK

WORK Discouraged youth Lack of education Lack of experience Frictional unemployment SOCIAL EXCLUSION Subsidised employment Good job seeking infrastructure Different people – Different needs Practical possibilities to complete their education Guidance and motivation Vocational trainingTraineeships There is no one simple solution to the youth unemployment challenge. Different measures should be used to address to the different needs of young people

Policy responses – depends on national circumstances and should be part of an integrated framework that promotes economic development and employment growth; Calls for combining policies for employment expansion with targeted programmes that overcome the specific LM disadvantages faced by many young people; ! Focus on comprehensive and integrated strategies that combine education and training policies with targeted employment policies for youth

Our common aim: Better integration of young people within labour market Stronger partnership between education providers, employers, social partners and youth organisations

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