Disadvantaged family background

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NEETs’ family socioeconomic background, economic deprivation, level of parental education along with the parental interest in the child’s education are strong predictors of becoming NEET. Furthermore, young people having one or both parents unemployed and with a low household income are more likely to become NEET than others. Having parents who experienced unemployment increases the probability of being NEET by 17%. Additionally, those with parents with a low level of education are up to 1.5 times more likely to be NEET than those young people whose parents have a secondary level of education and up to 2 times more likely than those whose parents have a tertiary level of education.

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Outreach
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Related resources

Good practices
Good practice
Project CLICK-Activate Skills for Employability
Projeto CLICK-Ativar Competências para a Empregabilidade

CLICK functions as a mediation project between job supply and demand, working as a complementary tool to public employment services. The scope of this project is twofold including the development of soft skills among vulnerable or unemployed people and actions for raising awareness about social responsibility among potential employers. By joining efforts with multiple stakeholders and working closely with the actual beneficiaries, the project aims to make the “click” in their lives.

Portugal
Good practice
Integrated Network for Young People in the Province of Vicenza
Rete Integrata per i Giovani del Vicentino

In Italy, one of the main difficulties of the Youth Guarantee Programme in the course of the first phase was to reach and engage the most discouraged NEETs from social backgrounds characterised by high levels of poverty that affected their ability to enter and remain within training and education courses, to gain work experience and to find out about the possibilities offered by the Programme.

Germany
Italy
Portugal
Spain
United Kingdom
Good practice
PLAY YOUR SKILLS
Mobile Gaming App for Identification and documentation of Skills and Competences for disadvantaged young NEETs

Getting NEETs back on track by the "VET-ification" of gaming to encourage them to take part in Vocational Education and Training (VET) or at least get in touch with VET.

Austria
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Portugal
Spain
Good practice
Comprehensive pathways for the integration of young people

Programme for young people implemented by the cooperative "Jovent" offering comprehensive pathways of guidance, training, social inclusion and labour market insertion.

Spain
Publications
Publications
Concepts, consequences, and policy approaches for young NEETs
Research paper

This research paper examines the concept of young people not in employment, education, or training (NEETs) and European Union’s target to reduce NEET rates by 2030. 

EU level
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