Next-up research publications, reports and blog posts will be featured here.
Next-up research publications, reports and blog posts will be featured here.

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…
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 &…
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…