Professional development perspectives across gender and age groups of under‐qualified rural NEETs

Almeida, Amanda Nunes de; Simões, Francisco

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“…Greater levels of economic deprivation also prevent greater retention of the most qualified amongst the younger generations in rural areas [17]. Our specific finding indirectly reflects the fact that rural youths with fewer resources more often stay in rural areas [36], sometimes adding justifications to stay through cognitive dissonance strategies [23]. This may have been the case with participants coming from socio-economically weak households, as they tend to be more negative about their life trajectories, including in terms of professional and income expectations.…”

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Time to Get Emotional: Determinants of University Students’ Intention to Return to Rural Areas

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Rocca

Rocha³

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The social sustainability of rural areas is affected by the phenomenon of “brain drain” due to younger generations’ outward migration. Our study examines how structural and subjective factors determine the returning intentions of university students over time, before completion of their studies. We conducted a longitudinal, 3-wave survey between 2018 and 2020, involving 349 students (Mean age = 21.89; 63.04% women) and originating from a rural, remote region of Portugal. Using a Tobit panel model approach for data analysis, we found that participants whose mothers had a university degree, who expected higher income 3 years after studies completion, and who were more attached to the place where they were studying were less inclined to return to their native rural area. Conversely, those who were more attached to their rural origins were more likely to show an increased interest in returning over time. Our findings show that university students originating from rural areas and their returning intentions are affected by both structural and subjective factors, in a context of increasing individualisation of mobility intentions and decision making. Consequently, decision makers must start to include the sustained promotion of youths’ emotional bonds to rural areas as a vector of education policy packages in order to combat rural brain drain.

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Rocha³

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“…At the contextual level, on-the-ground institutional support is unstructured or inefficient especially in countries toward the South and the East of the Globe (Walther, 2006;Wilkinson et al, 2017), leaving rural NEETs more exposed to a complex combination of several structural risks. With some exceptions (Corbett, 2007), rural areas are more often economically deprived, offering mostly low-skilled, precarious jobs to youths showing less educational resources and professional experience (Almeida & Simões, 2020). Thus, rural younger generations are particularly vulnerable to keep coming in and out of the NEET status, especially in the case of women (Sadler et al, 2015).…”

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“…NEETs diversity will not be entirely captured if developmental paths are not contextualized according to significant differences across countries in terms of the institutional support provided to young people in order to ease school-to-work transitions (Walther, 2006). School-to-work institutional support varies from universalistic transition regimes (typical of Scandinavian countries that ensure a strong public investment in secondary and tertiary education), as well as on on-the-ground, comprehensive employment services; to sub-protective transition regimes that characterize Southern European countries, plagued by unequal access to tertiary education and which are dominated by low quality, informal support for job seekers (Almeida & Simões, 2020;Bello & Cuzzocrea, 2018); or, finally, to very loose formal support structures in the Global South countries, especially in rural areas (Wilkinson et al, 2017).…”

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Scrutinising the Exceptionalism of Young Rural NEETs: A Bibliometric Review

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The situation of rural NEETs aged 15 to 24 remains understudied. However, transitions from adolescence to emerging adulthood are very demanding for those in the countryside. Our paper discusses this gap by characterising the scholarship focusing on rural NEETs. We undertook a bibliometric review based on 325 entries on Web of Science (WoS) using the Bibliometrix analysis package. Our approach included descriptive bibliometric analysis, co-citation networks assessment, and thematic analysis. Our findings show that the investigation efforts depicting younger rural NEET are recent and marginal in the larger context of international NEETs scholarship. The field is dominated by economy- and sociology-led networks. Concerns regarding health and employment issues are central in international publishing trends, showing a dominant youth-at-risk approach to this group. Still, themes associated with adolescent NEETs and relevant programs’ assessment are gaining traction. Our findings show a need for funding research initiatives to reduce the invisibility of young rural NEETs.

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“…A study on rural NEETs analyses the association between self-efficacy and perception of professional barriers and expectations. It shows that self-efficacy correlates positively with the perception of barriers, particularly among men (compared with women in similar conditions) (Almeida & Simões, 2020). It is concluded that the NEET experience has a massive impact on the sense of competence (self-efficacy).…”

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Manual for the classification of intervention best-practices with rural NEETs

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Erdoğan²,

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targeting rural NEETs. In my opinion, this is the most outstanding contribution of this manual, and also an original one, considering that to date no other efforts have been made with the intention of developing a grid of how to describe interventions dealing with rural NEETs. This manual offers, therefore, valuable contributions for upcoming research efforts within and beyond RNYN, including: (a) a complete methodological framework for future case stu-dies; (b) practical tools to conduct field research than can be combined with many different methodological approaches (qualitative, mixed-methods, etc.); and, (c) strategic criteria for conducting research in complex settings such as community-based programs. In addition, this manual sets the necessary conditions to present evidence-based conclusions about programs targeting rural NEETs, further aiding policy-makers to opt for solutions that clearly produce better results. This manual would not have been possible without the efforts and best knowledge from its editorial team. Therefore, as the Chair of RNYN, but also in a more personal note, I would like to thank Claudia Petrescu, Emre Erdogan and Paul Flynn for the impeccable and rigorous way in which they conducted all the process. I would also like to thank the Working Group 2 mem-bers traversing many countries who contributed to this document.

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Professional development perspectives across gender and age groups of under‐qualified rural NEETs

Abstract: Professional development perspectives across gender and age groups of under-qualified rural NEETs.

Cited by 27 publications

References 40 publications

Time to Get Emotional: Determinants of University Students’ Intention to Return to Rural Areas

Time to Get Emotional: Determinants of University Students’ Intention to Return to Rural Areas

Scrutinising the Exceptionalism of Young Rural NEETs: A Bibliometric Review

Manual for the classification of intervention best-practices with rural NEETs

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