1. Making youth transitions pay: what role for PES?
Wallis Goelen
Head of Unit – Employment Services & EURES
Budapest 28 April 2011 -

2. Presentation outline Issues & challenges
Youth transitions: what do we know?
Implications for PES
What can PES do to step up to the challenge?
Conclusions

3. Issues & Challenges Youth unemployment is a structural problem
Even in good times rates were high
Paradoxically: most educated youth generation ever
Recession hit young workers hardest
men vs women; ethnic minorities; low educated
Little or non existant social security coverage
Unemployment rate alone understates scale of the problem: low participation rate much more severe

4. Youth (15-24) participation in work force in EU fell as unemployment increased
Source: Mobility in Europe Report 2010

5. Youth transitions: what do we know?
First transition into labour market hardest yet most critical
Recession increased transitions out of employment
Reduced probability of moving out of unemployment and back into employment…resulting in:
Evidence of youngsters returning to or remaining in education
Concerns on LTU and huge deskilling among Youth

6. Transitions from one year to the next -Mobility in Europe 2010-

7. Proportion of employees (15-24) in temporary jobs, 2007 & 2009
Source: EU SILC data in Mobility in Europe Report 2011

8. Movements from Permanent (P) and /Temporary (T) jobs in EU , 2005-2007
Source: EU SILC data in Mobility in Europe Report 2011
Notes: T – temporary contract ; P – permanent contract

9. Implications for PES: repositioning
EGL 7 - Employment services should be strengthened and open to all, including young people and those threatened by unemployment with personalised services targeting those furthest away from the labour market.
EGL 8 - Member States should promote productivity and employability through an adequate supply of knowledge and skills to match current and future demand in the labour market (…) to support young people and in particular those not in employment, education or training (…) and intervene rapidly when young people become unemployed
YoM Communication: Member States to introduce Youth Guarantees… to ensure all young people are in a job, training or work experience within 4 months of leaving school

10. Organisational implications for PES
On going modernisation of
PES Business Models
IMPROVED
OUTREACH
CAPACITY
TRANSITIONS
BROKER
PARTNERSHIPS
PES actions for enhancing youth employment prospects

11. Stepping up to the challenge requires…
IMPROVE
OUTREACH
CAPACITY
Information & Communication
Corporate image and brand
New technologies & Social Media

12. Stepping up to the challenge requires…
TRANSITIONS
BROKER
Activation: Youth Guarantees
Early access to individualised services
Skills anticipation to enhance matching

13. Stepping up to the challenge requires…
PARTNERSHIPS
Cooperation with education and training bodies
Other employment services
Community level actions

14. Conclusions Three fold challenge affecting
Prevention, supply and demand
Labour market policies must go hand in hand with education and a ‘services first’ philosophy
Most comprehensive range of EU policy measures and initiatives to date
Member States and PES must chose tools that suit them best

15. Thank you for your attention