Youth unemployment and employment trajectories in Spain during the Great Recession: what are the determinants?

Since the beginning of the recession period in Europe, unemployment has greatly affected the young adult population. In this context, Spain is regarded as an extreme case, due to its exceptionally high youth unemployment rates. This article seeks to identify the determinants that have led certain gr...

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Autores: Verd, Joan Miquel, Barranco, Oriol, Bolíbar, Mireia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12651-019-0254-3
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Palabra clave:Spain
Unemployment
Great Recession
Youth
Labour markets
Employment trajectories
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spelling Youth unemployment and employment trajectories in Spain during the Great Recession: what are the determinants?Verd, Joan MiquelBarranco, OriolBolíbar, MireiaSpainUnemploymentGreat RecessionYouthLabour marketsEmployment trajectoriesSince the beginning of the recession period in Europe, unemployment has greatly affected the young adult population. In this context, Spain is regarded as an extreme case, due to its exceptionally high youth unemployment rates. This article seeks to identify the determinants that have led certain groups of Spanish young people to suffer labour market trajectories with higher levels of unemployment and instability during the Great Recession than others. To do this, retrospective data from the 2012 Catalan Youth Survey are used. With these data and using cluster analysis, a typology of labour market trajectories is constructed. Next, multinomial logistic regressions are used to identify what individual socio-demographic characteristics and pre-crisis employment experiences are connected to these different typological career paths. Results show that the highly differentiated career paths are associated with different social profiles and differences in the presence of unemployment. Moreover, interesting differences among the most unstable career paths appear. For the most vulnerable social profiles the employment trajectory prior to the crisis seems to point towards the existence of an entrapment in low-skilled jobs that alternate with situations of unemployment. For those with a slightly better position their employment situation after the initiation of the crisis seems to have been impacted by their brief labour market trajectory before the crisis and their resulting work experience gap.We would like to thank the Catalan Youth Observatory for letting us use the data from the Catalan Youth Survey 2012. We would particularly like to thank Pau Serracant for his help and for encouraging us to send our study to the Journal of Labour Market Research in response to their call for research on Youth unemployment in Europe. We are also grateful to two anonymous referees for their comments, which enabled us to greatly improve the quality of our paper. It goes without saying that any errors in this article are the sole responsibility of the authors.SpringerOpen202120212019info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/47094http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12651-019-0254-3reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésJournal for Labour Market Research. 2019;53:4© The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/470942026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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title Youth unemployment and employment trajectories in Spain during the Great Recession: what are the determinants?
spellingShingle Youth unemployment and employment trajectories in Spain during the Great Recession: what are the determinants?
Verd, Joan Miquel
Spain
Unemployment
Great Recession
Youth
Labour markets
Employment trajectories
title_short Youth unemployment and employment trajectories in Spain during the Great Recession: what are the determinants?
title_full Youth unemployment and employment trajectories in Spain during the Great Recession: what are the determinants?
title_fullStr Youth unemployment and employment trajectories in Spain during the Great Recession: what are the determinants?
title_full_unstemmed Youth unemployment and employment trajectories in Spain during the Great Recession: what are the determinants?
title_sort Youth unemployment and employment trajectories in Spain during the Great Recession: what are the determinants?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Verd, Joan Miquel
Barranco, Oriol
Bolíbar, Mireia
author Verd, Joan Miquel
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Barranco, Oriol
Bolíbar, Mireia
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author2 Barranco, Oriol
Bolíbar, Mireia
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Spain
Unemployment
Great Recession
Youth
Labour markets
Employment trajectories
topic Spain
Unemployment
Great Recession
Youth
Labour markets
Employment trajectories
description Since the beginning of the recession period in Europe, unemployment has greatly affected the young adult population. In this context, Spain is regarded as an extreme case, due to its exceptionally high youth unemployment rates. This article seeks to identify the determinants that have led certain groups of Spanish young people to suffer labour market trajectories with higher levels of unemployment and instability during the Great Recession than others. To do this, retrospective data from the 2012 Catalan Youth Survey are used. With these data and using cluster analysis, a typology of labour market trajectories is constructed. Next, multinomial logistic regressions are used to identify what individual socio-demographic characteristics and pre-crisis employment experiences are connected to these different typological career paths. Results show that the highly differentiated career paths are associated with different social profiles and differences in the presence of unemployment. Moreover, interesting differences among the most unstable career paths appear. For the most vulnerable social profiles the employment trajectory prior to the crisis seems to point towards the existence of an entrapment in low-skilled jobs that alternate with situations of unemployment. For those with a slightly better position their employment situation after the initiation of the crisis seems to have been impacted by their brief labour market trajectory before the crisis and their resulting work experience gap.
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