Youth and the Crisis : Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (309 pages)
- Routledge Studies in Labour Economics Series .
- Routledge Studies in Labour Economics Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Editors' introduction -- PART I Education and training: choices and outcomes -- 2 Monopsony power and work-based training -- 3 Overeducation: a disease of the school-to-work transition system -- 4 Should I stay or should I go? Dropping out from university: an empirical analysis of students' performances -- 5 University dropout rates in Italy -- 6 The future has early roots: learning outcomes and school effectiveness in Tuscany's primary education system -- PART II Short-term choices with long-term consequences: health, leaving home and intergenerational mobility -- 7 Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow: income and risky choices amongst young adults in the UK -- 8 Obesity and economic performance of young workers in Italy -- 9 Leaving home and housing prices: the experience of Italian youth emancipation -- 10 Leaving home and poverty before and after the economic crisis in southern European Countries -- 11 Youth unemployment and health over 50: evidence for the European countries -- 12 Intergenerational equity and intergenerational mobility in Italy: an analysis from SHIW -- PART III Youth labour markets, NEET and the crisis -- 13 Youth re-employment probabilities in a gender perspective: the case of Italy -- 14 The regional impact of the crisis on young people in different EU countries -- 15 Young people in transitions: conditions, indicators and policy implications. To NEET or not to NEET? -- Index.