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688 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 7 (2020)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0688 and id is 1 raw text is: Labor Market Uncertainties for Youth and Young Adults: An International Perspective By WEI-JUN JEAN YEUNG and YI YANG A crisis for youth labor market conditions has been building globally for more than two decades, reflected in the persistently high rates of youth unemployment around the world, which is about three times as high as that for adults. About one in five young people are not in education, employment, or training, and a large share of young adults are working in the informal economy or in precarious conditions. This volume includes a collection of thirteen articles that examine the causes, patterns, and consequences of labor market uncertainties for youth and young adults in Europe, Latin/South America, the United States, and Asia, as well as a concluding article. They reveal vast inequalities among young people, with those having the least education and lowest skills, females, those with low family socioeconomic status (SES), ethnic minorities, and migrants being the most vulnerable. In this introduction, we describe the global trends and regional variation in labor market conditions for young people, explicate the importance of integrating young people into labor markets, and summarize the findings and policy implications of these articles. Keywords: youth unemployment; transition to adult- hood; school-to-work transition; NEET; precarious work; international comparison Around one fifth of the worlds young people are not in employment, education or training. Despite economic recovery, unemployment rnains high, and youth are more likely to be une mployed than adults around the world. Low productivity levels, informality and working poverty remain major challenges, and as populations age, today's young workforce will have to increasingly support elderly persons. These global conditions require concerted efforts to ensure that young women and men have access to decent jobs. International Labour Organization 2017, 11) A crisis for youth labor market conditions has been building globally for more than two decades as reflected in the persistently high rates of youth unemployment. The International Labour Organization (ILO) reported that the world youth (ages 15-24) unemployment rate Correspondence: socywj@nus.edu.sg DOI: 10.1177/0002716220913487 ANNALS, AAPSS, 688, March 2020

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