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Targeted employment measures for young people:

The Youth Guarantee

Pablo Cornide Unit C2 - Sectorial Employment Challenges, Youth Employment & Entrepreneurship

European Commission - DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

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Why a Youth Guarantee?

• Macro-economic environment
• Young people dropping out of education or work; low skilled youth

most at risk of unemployment and exclusion in the longer term

• Difficult school-to-work transitions
• Transitions more difficult in countries with segmented labour markets
• Macro-economic instruments
• Youth Guarantee schemes
• Increase the supply of high-quality traineeships and

apprenticeships

• Reforms in labour market regulation
• Labour mobility
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IIS9hMUvWU

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Youth unemployment rates (15-24 years old) for

the EU Member States

Source: Eurostat, LFS [une_rt_a]

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Do we still need a Youth Guarantee?

• Despite a slight improvement youth unemployment is still very

high in the EU (EU YUR more than double the EU UR) + EU YUR masks big differences between countries

• Gap between youth unemployment and overall unemployment

rates is too wide

• cyclical factors that disproportionally affect the levels of youth

employment and unemployment in MS + also a consequence of structural characteristics of labour markets that the Youth Guarantee strives to change.

• In some MS YUR have decreased substantially (in some cases

almost by half) from very high levels BUT

• risk they end up with higher structural levels of youth employment

and/or lower youth employment rates than before the crisis

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A Youth Guarantee

• Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013. Member States should:

 ensure that all young people under 25  receive a good-quality offer of  employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship  within four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education.

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Young people

under 25

Employment Continued education Apprenticeship Traineeship In formal education (incl. continued)

• r in employment

Unemployed Inactive

Registration with Youth Guarantee provider

For example employment, social, educational services

Youth Guarantee preparatory service

For example: individual case management, personalised guidance, training and mentoring From day one of registration

Receive Youth Guarantee Offer

Within four months of becoming unemployed or leaving education

Non-Subsidised Offer Subsidised Offer

Employment Further education Employment Continued education Apprenticeship Traineeship Unemployed Inactive Unemployed Inactive Employment Further education Unemployed or who have left formal education

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The Youth Guarantee is

• an outcome-based approach
• a long-term structural reform (including VET/

apprenticeships reform, PES reform…)

• about coordinated partnerships (ministries, social

partners, youth organisations, etc.)

• needs substantial financial and political backing from

Member States

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YG: State of play

All Member States have presented comprehensive Youth Guarantee Implementation Plans

• in-depth structural reforms of training, job-search and

education systems

• to drastically improve the transition from school to

work and the employability of young people

• identify and activate those furthest away from the labour

market (NEETs)

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EU financial support to YG implementation

Most important source of EU money to support implementation of the Youth Guarantee is the European Social Fund (ESF) worth around EUR 86 billion for the 2014-2020 period

• To top-up available EU financial support to the regions where

individuals struggle most with youth unemployment and inactivity, the EU has created a dedicated €6.4 billion Youth Employment

Initiative (YEI).

• regions with levels of youth unemployment above 25% => 20 MS

are eligible

• YEI money can be used for hiring subsidies, support for young

people starting a business, first job experience, traineeships, apprenticeships, further education and training…

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Thank you for your attention!