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T1 Measuring Youth Living Conditions in Europe: A Multidimensional Cross-Country Approach
A1 Corrales Herrero, María Elena
A1 Rodríguez Prado, Beatriz
K1 Juventud - Países de la Unión Europea
K1 Youth
K1 Living conditions
K1 Multi-criteria approach
K1 Double reference point method
K1 EU countries
K1 63 Sociología
K1 5302 Econometría
AB Since the onset of the Great Recession, it could be argued that it is the young who havebeen hardest hit in their living conditions. This paper offers a comprehensive descriptionof youth living conditions and how they evolved during the recession period. To do so,we develop a synthetic index combining the indicators proposed by experts in thedimensions of Education and Training, Employment and Entrepreneurship, and SocialInclusion, through a multi-criteria approach based on the double reference point method.This technique enriches the debate by shifting the focus to acceptable and desirablethresholds for each indicator and by overcoming limitations inherent in previous youthindexes that allow for total compensation between the indicators, whilst ignoring potentialimbalances. Results show that, in a context of convergence in policy instruments acrosscountries during the Great Recession, there was an improvement in educationperformance, whereas cross-country divergences in terms of youth labour marketprospects and social inclusion increased. This evolution has led to a more complex picturewhich is characterized by greater polarization in the spatial distribution of youth livingconditions, with two noticeable poles: north-central Europe as opposed to the south andeast of Europe. Differences in institutional configurations in the fields of education andtraining, active labour market policies, employment protection legislation and welfareprovision together with macroeconomic trends, particularly levels of demand for youthlabour and fiscal resources, have played an important role in shaping European youthliving conditions.
PB Springer
SN 0303-8300
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/66997
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/66997
LA eng
NO Social Indicator Research, 2021, vol. 155, p. 1077–1117
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 16-may-2024