Youth Unemployment and NEETs – Reasons and Treatment in Europe with Special Regard to Hungary.

Artner, Annamária (2014) Youth Unemployment and NEETs – Reasons and Treatment in Europe with Special Regard to Hungary. In: Labour Market Trends in Bulgaria and the CEE Region – Overview and Perspectives. Economic Policy Institute, Sofia, pp. 119-159. ISBN 978-954-9359-53-4

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Abstract

The problem of youth unemployment and NEETs is only the tip of the iceberg and cannot be solved without solving the general problem of unemployment. The growth of the latter, however, is a historical tendency within capitalism, and this tendency becomes more pronounced for Europe with outward foreign investments to low-wage countries outside Europe. Behind the tendency of rising unemployment and the collateral deterioration of working conditions, such as decreasing wages, increasing intensity of work, spread of “atypical” or – to put it less euphemistically – precarious forms of employment, there is the profit motive that requires a continuous lessening of unit labor costs. This causes the decreasing trend of the compensation of employees within the GDP, which itself is the basic reason for crisis and unemployment.

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