Youth unemployment in the EU15: regional and national inequalities throughout the 2008 economic crisis

Authors

  • Alberta Maria Carlotta Spreafico
  • Agnese Dina Peruzzi
  • Enrica Chiappero Department of Political and Social Sciences University of Pavia, Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/ebl.3.3.2014.177-190

Abstract

This paper analyses inequality in terms of youth unemployment rates across the EU15 regions and countries, before and throughout the 2008 Economic Crisis. A series of descriptive investigations explore intra-national regional inequalities, as well as cross-national ones. It is found that before the crisis, there were generalized low average levels of youth unemployment and inequality was mostly found within countries. Throughout the crisis, intra-national homogeneity and cross-national inequality increased. By 2013 a polarization dynamic emerged, with a Southern/Mediterranean European group of regions that reached acutely high levels of youth unemployment, versus a few countries that were resilient to the crisis and Germany that reduced its youth unemployment rates.

 

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14-10-2014

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Spreafico, A. M. C., Peruzzi, A. D., & Chiappero, E. (2014). Youth unemployment in the EU15: regional and national inequalities throughout the 2008 economic crisis. Economics and Business Letters, 3(3), 177–190. https://doi.org/10.17811/ebl.3.3.2014.177-190

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Vol. 3 No. 3 (2014): September - Special Issue Inequality and the Great Recession

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Special Section

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