Youth Skills day: 15th July 2015

By Glenda Quintini and Stéphane Carcillo. The so-called NEET rate (the share of youth neither in employment nor in education or training currently stands at 14% in the OECD on average, up from 12.5% before the Great Recession. But in some countries, the problem is much bigger and has been exacerbated by the crisis. For example, the NEET rate rose by about 10 percentage points to exceed 20% in Greece, Italy and Spain. More...