Young people find jobs earlier

Citation

(1999), "Young people find jobs earlier", Education + Training, Vol. 41 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.1999.00441aab.025

Young people find jobs earlier

Young people find jobs earlier

Keywords Europe, Unemployment, Young people

Young people in the EU tend to find work a little more quickly than their elders, according to a report by the European Union statistics office, Eurostat.

The most recent figures indicate that around 62 per cent of unemployed people aged 15-24 had been looking for work for more than six months, compared to 68 per cent of those aged 25-59. Young people (22 per cent) are more likely to be unemployed than their elders (10 per cent), but remain jobless for a shorter period, on average.

Large differences exist between EU member states. In Denmark, Austria and Finland, for example, more than 40 per cent of young unemployed people had been out of work for less than three months. This contrasts with 7 per cent in Italy and the Netherlands. The British figure is 34 per cent. More than half had been unemployed for more than a year in Greece and Italy, compared with a quarter in Britain.