Promoting Youth Employment in Europe: Evidence-Based Policy Lessons

Eichhörst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68222-8_13

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“…The practice-oriented entrepreneurship education has been considered as a way to deepen students' understanding of entrepreneurial knowledge, as well as effectively training students' entrepreneurial abilities and skills [42,58]. Many studies indicated that practice-oriented entrepreneurship education has had more positive effects than course-taking-oriented training in the last 3 years [21,59].…”

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“…Vocational education and training, as well as general education, play crucial roles in preparing young people for the labor market, vocational education and training are core factors in smoothing the transition from school to work [21]. Pardo-García and Barac (2020) [22] found that an innovative training itinerary is an opportunity to develop students' creativity and entrepreneurship to create something from zero, being proactive, and solving a need that exists in the society.…”

Section: Entrepreneurship Educationmentioning

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Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention in Higher Education

2020

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Facing the challenging employment situation and the changing labor market, developing student entrepreneurial intention has attracted significant policy consideration in China. This study describes the background of entrepreneurship education in China’s higher education institutes and explores the influences of entrepreneurship education on student entrepreneurial intention. Using data from a survey on students in China, this study finds that students in different types of institutions and different major fields had a different level of engagement in entrepreneurship education. Further, the higher the level of entrepreneurship education the students received, the stronger their self-efficacy of entrepreneurial decision-making was, and the stronger their entrepreneurial intention was. Student entrepreneurial decision-making self-efficacy played a mediating role between entrepreneurship education and student entrepreneurial intention. We found that entrepreneurship education has a positive effect on entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurship education course-taking has a positive effect on entrepreneurial decision-making. Furthermore, the positive effect of self-efficacy of entrepreneurial decision-making on entrepreneurial intention was also confirmed. We also found that self-efficacy of entrepreneurial decision-making played the significant role of mediator between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. The findings also showed a difference between the current China context and the western context that taking entrepreneurship-related classes had more considerable influences on student entrepreneurial intention than entrepreneurship-related practicum. We discuss the implications of the improvement of higher education in China and relevance to other contexts.

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Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention in Higher Education

2020

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“…In particular, the Youth Guarantee/YG program was recommended by the Council (2013) "to ensure that all young people under the age of 25 years receive a good-quality offer of employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within a period of 4 months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education." Some earlier methodologically rigorous evaluation studies found mixed or ambivalent effects of active labour market policies (ALMPs) on youth unemployment (Bell & Blanchflower, 2011;Heckman, LaLonde, & Smith, 1999;Calmfors, Forslund & Hermström, 2002) and more recent studies reported similar findings (Caliendo & Schmidl, 2016;Card, Kluve, & Weber, 2015;Eichhorst & Rinne, 2016;Kluve, 2014;Maibom, Rosholm, & Svarer, 2014). Explanations of these ambivalent and inconsistent findings mainly refer to the heterogeneity of the programs and program participants as well as to different methodological study designs.…”

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Why targeting matters: The apprenticeship program for youth in the Czech Republic

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Sirovátka

2020

Soc Policy Adm

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In this paper, we analyze the targeting and outcomes of the apprenticeship program implemented under the Youth Guarantee/YG scheme in the Czech Republic. We examine the outcomes and targeting using counterfactual impact evaluation (quasi-experimental design) of the apprenticeship program on the basis of administrative data from the Czech Employment Office. The implementation strategy is analyzed using various policy documents. The findings indicate that the program is apparently targeted at those groups of young people who are less disadvantaged as regards education level and previous unemployment experience. At the same time, paradoxically, the effects in terms of outflows from the unemployment register are weak for the short-term and medium-term unemployed, as well as for low-skilled and high-skilled youth, and stronger effects are evident in the case of long-term unemployed and medium-skilled youth. The failures in targeting and in adjusting the program to the needs of more vulnerable groups of youth are due to an inconsistent implementation strategy of Czech Public Employment Services.

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“…For Sweden, this is mainly due to its active policy approach which aims to get more people into the labour market. These policies have led to both a high employment rate and a high unemployment rate (Eichhorst & Rinne, 2016). Iceland has the lowest economic inactivity rate in Europe.…”

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State of the Nordic Region 2018

2018

Nord

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Demography (chapters 2-4): Describes and analyses population development in terms of natural increase or decline, migration, urbanisation and age distribution. Labour market (chapters 5-7). Describes and analyses employment, unemployment and economically-inactive groups, especially among young people and foreign born, as well as education. Economy (chapters 8-10): Describes and analyses GDP, income levels, innovation capacity, research and development and foreign direct investment (FDI). The second part consists of four thematic focus areas. The chosen areas for the 2018 edition are: Bioeconomy (chapter 11): Focuses on land use and land ownership, forestry, biogas, fisheries and aquaculture. Digitalisation (chapter 12): Focuses on the broadband coverage and use of Internet to interact with the public sector. Health and welfare (chapter 13): Focuses on public health issues and the territorial dimensions of life expectancy and accessibility to healthcare. Culture and arts (chapter 14): Focuses on newlyproduced data at municipal and regional levels on cinemas, libraries and museums.

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Promoting Youth Employment in Europe: Evidence-Based Policy Lessons

Cited by 26 publications

References 41 publications

Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention in Higher Education

Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention in Higher Education

Why targeting matters: The apprenticeship program for youth in the Czech Republic

State of the Nordic Region 2018

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