OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other.
- ISSN: 1815199X (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/1815199X
Rising Youth Unemployment During The Crisis
How to Prevent Negative Long-term Consequences on a Generation?
The global economic crisis has hit youth very hard. In the OECD area, the youth (15-24)
unemployment rate rose by 6 percentage points in the two years to the end of 2009, to reach almost 19%.
There are currently nearly 15 million youth unemployed in the OECD area, about four million more than at
the end of 2007. And in countries like France and Italy, about one active youth in four is unemployed,
while in Spain more than 40% of them are jobless.
Also available in: French
- Click to access:
-
Click to download PDF - 1.19MBPDF
-
Click to Read online and shareREAD