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CHER panel: Youth employability and labour market transitions. 2nd of September, 2.00 pm
Ivano Bison, Stanislave Stedronsky Emmanuel Ngoy, and Taru Siekkinen from the NEXT-UP consortium traveled to Sicily this week. Their task: to participate at the CHER conference at Catania Sicily. The special plan: to join forces with the colleagues from the EDU-LAB project especially Alexander Chvorostov in a special panel chaired by Taru Siekkinen. Youth employability…
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Next-UP member Lara Maestripieri contributed to El Pais article
Last week, El País, Spain’s leading newspaper, published an article in its Education section on the opportunities and challenges of combining higher education with paid work. Lara Maestripieri, sociologist of work and PI of the Spanish unit in NEXT-UP, contributed to the piece by sharing insights from her research on young people’s education-to-work transitions. The…
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Porto – a pefect place to discuss progress and plans for the future
Porto was a perfect place for discussing the progress of the NEXT-UP project and planning the next steps for the future. The beautiful city itself would already have been reason enough to visit. Stretching along the steep riverbanks of the Douro, Porto offers narrow alleys, winding streets and remarkable views at every turn. But it…
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Novel data on Active Labour Market Policies (ALMP) expenditure by age group and gender
How much do European governments spend on active labour market policies (ALMP) to support young people’s transition from school and into employment? So far, there was no comparable data to answer this question and research interested in measuring policy effort to support unemployed young people had to rely on qualitative indicators (e.g. Tosun, Unt &…
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Active Labour Market Policy Expenditure by Age and Gender. New data and its benefits
Active labour market policies (ALMP) are an important instrument in the toolbox of modern welfare states, yet comparative research typically relies on aggregate spending measures that obscure how resources are distributed across target groups. This paper addresses this limitation by developing a new method to disaggregate ALMP expenditure by age group (15–24 and 25+) and…
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Diverging Perceptions – challenges on the way to the labour markets four young people – Results of a structured literature review
Authors: Stanislav Stedronsky (UiS), Thomas Sattich (UiS), Dian Liu (UiS) In a nutshell Next-UP literature review shows three patterns that structure the transgression of young people from education to the labour markets. The review identified several persistent patterns emerging across the literature: In addition, educators and employers seem to share the same priorities. Both…
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EDU-LAB and NEXT-UP join forces and will have a panel at the upcoming CHER conference at Catania-Sicily
Exciting news! EDU-LAB and NEXT-UP join forces and have successfully proposed a panel for the upcoming CHER conference. The panel´s title is: Youth employability and labour market transitions: Insights from two Horizon Europe projects The panel brings together emerging findings from the Horizon Europe projects NEXT-UP and EDU-LAB. It will examine how structural changes in…
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“Hoog sisse”: Tallinn’s support program helping young people return to work and education
Across Europe, cities are experimenting with new ways to support young people who struggle to enter the labour market or continue their education. While some initiatives focus on providing first job opportunities, others concentrate on reaching young people who have already become disconnected from both school and employment. In Tallinn, the “Hoog sisse” (“Gain momentum”) program addresses this…
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Carrots, Sticks, or Sermons: Countries’ policies for Youth Employability?
Successful transition of young people to the labour market is one of the key objectives of post-secondary education. Given the importance, governmental (European and national) policies and programmes aim to enhance youth employability (Vossensteyn, et al., 2018). What is less clear is how countries are trying to do so. Governments have different policy instruments at…
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Trento Meeting in November
Welcome Early November, we had our 2nd Consortium Meeting. After the inspiring Kick Off at Tampere University in cold and snowy Finland this time we went to the north again -not of Europe, but the north of Italy. Trento welcomed us with clear weather and great food on the Wednesday evening. Day one The next…