Three Ways Europe Could Solve Its Youth Unemployment Crisis
What can be done to create more jobs
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Joblessness is ravaging the youth of Europe. The unemployment rate for people 29 and younger in the European Union is 19 percent, the highest in at least 10 years. In Spain, the figure is 42 percent. In Greece, it’s 49 percent.
The situation is even worse than numbers suggest. Ken Roberts, a professor of sociology at the University of Liverpool, says that young people lucky enough to have jobs are more likely than older workers to be underemployed—floating in and out of low-paid, temporary, and part-time jobs.