Resources

This package – available in English - provides a hand-on approach to measure the social cost and benefits of youth employment interventions.

The aim of this paper is to review the current literature relating to social cost-benefit analysis (SCBA) with a view to developing a methodology for the assessment of youth employment policies and, more specifically, the Youth Guarantee (YG).

This paper identifies the main elements for estimating the social cost-benefits of the Youth Guarantee (YG).

The guide offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the topics of results measurement and impact assessment, their practical application in the youth employment field and how evidence created via results measurement strategies can lead to improved programming.

This book brings together contributions from the ILO’s Youth Employment Programme detailing policies that enable young people to find decent work.

This Cedefop study aims at better understanding how guidance supports entrepreneurship learning and contributes to the development of entrepreneurs’ career management skills.

This initiative is part of the New Skills Agenda for Europe, launched in June 2016.

 Focusing on young people aged 15–24 years, and taking those aged 25–29 years into account also, the report examines long-term unemployment in Europe.

Final report of the European Commission Expert Group 'Entrepreneurship in vocational education and training'.

This report examines the quality of the curriculum offer and careers guidance in place at key transition points from education into work, and looks at how it might be improved.

In 2016 Cedefop launched its first ever opinion survey aimed at investigating European citizens’ opinions on Vocational Education and Training (VET).

This research engaged with 315 young people (16-24) from across West Yorkshire to enable them to share their experience of Not being in Employment, Education or Training (NEET).

The systematic review and renewal of Vocational Education and Training (VET) is crucial to ensuring its continued quality and labour-market relevance. 

This report analyses the labour market situation of young people in Europe, with a specific focus on the group categorised as NEET.

Low qualifications, disengagement from education and training and long-term unemployment are interconnected phenomena and tend to cumulate throughout a person’s life.

This report was produced on the basis of 28 ‘Descriptions of Practices on outreach and activation of NEETs’ submitted in October 2014 by 25 PES in 23 countries.