NEETs and Youth Guarantee Registration: Examining the Link to Past Undeclared Work

The risk of becoming NEET depends on a number of factors, including socio-economic conditions, level of vulnerability as well as other socio-demographic characteristics. This report examines the link between undeclared work experience and Youth Guarantee registration among youth in Italy, Portugal and Spain. It investigates whether informal work increases the likelihood of young people to engage in public employment service programmes using survey data of 4,273 NEETs. 

Research paper by Antonella Rocca, Omeed Agahi, Mai Beilmann, Leonor Bettencourt, Natalia Edisherashvili, Elena Marta, Paolo Mazzocchi, Niall O’Higgins, Federica Pizzolante , Òscar Prieto‐Flores, Ricardo Borges Rodrigues, Miriam Rosa, and Francisco Simões, Politics and Governance, Vol. 12/Art. 7405 (2024).