Youth Unemployment and Society [Paperback]

This book examines youth unemployment and intervention strategies in the United States and Europe.This book provides an interdisciplinary, cross-national examination of trends in youth unemployment and intervention strategies in the United States and Europe. It examines how persistently high rates of youth unemployment affect values, beliefs and institutions.This book provides an interdisciplinary, cross-national examination of trends in youth unemployment and intervention strategies in the United States and Europe. It examines how persistently high rates of youth unemployment affect values, beliefs and institutions.As societies become more technically advanced and jobs require more expertise, young people are forced into a prolonged state of social marginality. Employment during adolescence could provide significant experiences for growth into later work roles, but most societies are not equipped to provide adolescents with meaningful work experience. In Youth Unemployment and Society, a group of historians, psychologists, economists and sociologists provide a cross-national examination of trends in youth unemployment and intervention strategies in the United States and Europe. Assessing the causes of aggregate societal unemployment rates, the authors address factors that make individuals more vulnerable to unemployment and consider the developmental consequences of this experience. The volume also examines how persistently high rates of youth unemployment affect society's values, beliefs, and institutions.Contributors; Foreword Klaus J. Jacobs; Introduction Jeylan T. Mortimer; Part I. Investment in Youth: 1. Youth, unemployment and marginality: the problem and the solution Laura E. Hess, Anne C. Petersen and Jeylan T. Mortimer; 2. Social capital, human capital and investment in youth James S. Coleman; 3. When may social capital influence children's school performance? John Modell; Reply to John Modell James S. Coleman; Reply to James S. Coleman John Modell; lÓ/