Youth earnings and labour market volatility in Europe

Ayllón, Sara; Ramos, Xavier

doi:10.1111/ilr.12069

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“…Our findings at least do not support the counterargument that in countries where job stability is low, jobhopping may serve less as a signal for recruiters than in countries with lower labour market volatility. Indeed, Ayllón and Ramos (2017) have found that levels of labour market volatility, which they measured in terms of changes in wages and transitions into and out of employment, are higher in Bulgaria and Greece than in Norway (the Swiss case was not included in their study). It is therefore reasonable to assume that, whereas unemployment can occur through no fault of one's own in contexts with high unemployment (and is therefore of little information value for recruiters), job-hopping is less likely to be interpreted as a consequence of the overall economic situation or as beyond the applicant's control.…”

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Scars of early job insecurity across Europe: insights from a multi-country employer study

Imdorf¹,

Shi²,

Sacchi³

et al. 2019

Youth Unemployment and Job Insecurity in Europe

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Scars of early job insecurity across Europe: insights from a multi-country employer study

Imdorf¹,

Shi²,

Sacchi³

et al. 2019

Youth Unemployment and Job Insecurity in Europe

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“…Third, evidence of earnings constitutes an important database of information for university candidates and HEIs. Owing to such information, young people with market-oriented education goals can make more informed decisions about higher education (Ayllón, Ramos 2019). On the other hand, HEIs can utilise the data to revamp those curricula that are aimed at training employable graduates and ensure that the 'investment' in higher education yields the highest return possible (Belfield, Bailey 2019).…”

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Which skills are the most prized? Analysing monetary value of geographers’ skills on the labour market in six European countries

Piróg,

Hibszer

2023

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The objective of the study is to identify those skills that are actually needed by the labour market and allow university graduates to achieve the highest remuneration. To achieve this objective, the authors monitored, for 18 months, online job postings from six countries addressed to geography graduates. Online job postings are the most up-to-date and reliable source of data about the salaries that employers are willing to offer for specific skills or skillsets. A total of 17,397 advertisements were collected, out of which 7,407 included information about the offered salary. Applying text mining and regression tree (classification and regression tree [CART]) analyses, the authors identified skills that significantly differentiate annual salaries. The group of competences associated with higher earnings includes highly specialised geographic information system (GIS), statistical and geological skills. Lower salaries were linked to some general skills such as communicating in a native language as well as some specialised skills, but only to those related to teaching and conducting scientific research.

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Youth Unemployment in Europe – Business Cycles, Crises, and Policy Responses

Vutsova

Arabadzhieva

Yalamov

2021

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Purpose: The goal of the paper is to analyse in which countries’ youth unemployment is statistically pro or countercyclical and how crises in the last decade have affected it. What would the plausible explanations for diverging patterns within the EU and other European countries be? In what terms is the young people’s labour market across Europe imbalanced? Methodology: The paper builds on Gontkovicova et al.’s (2015) analysis of correlations between GDP growth and youth unemployment on an annual basis by adding more indicators and considering the quarterly basis as well. The quantitative approach is enriched by qualitative insights on Southeast European countries studied within the Erasmus+ YouthCap project (CRA, 2020). Findings: Most of the countercyclical youth unemployment trends in the last 20 years are observed in Eastern European countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia). From Western European countries Iceland, Denmark and Portugal are countercyclical. The most resilient countries in terms of COVID-19 are North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey and Iceland, which were able to reduce youth unemployment during the coronavirus crisis (Q3 in 2019 and 2020). Plausible policy reactions have been identified based on the concept of learning societies and the need for continuous education. Practical implications: The paper argues why localised policy responses could be more effective than a centralised solution. However, increased coordination and standardisation of secondary and higher education could lead to increased youth labour migration. Originality/value: The paper combines a more traditional quantitative approach to the most recent data series with the qualitative approach of identifying various micro-trends by looking at selected outlier countries.

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Youth earnings and labour market volatility in Europe

Cited by 3 publications

References 60 publications

Scars of early job insecurity across Europe: insights from a multi-country employer study

Scars of early job insecurity across Europe: insights from a multi-country employer study

Which skills are the most prized? Analysing monetary value of geographers’ skills on the labour market in six European countries

Youth Unemployment in Europe – Business Cycles, Crises, and Policy Responses

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