NEETs in European rural areas: Individual features, support systems and policy measures

This open-access book investigates the most pressing challenges faced by young people Not in Employment, nor in Education or Training (NEET) in rural areas across Europe. It identifies and analyzes factors that contribute to or hinder youth social development and inclusion, such as individual features, informal social networks, education, employment services, and policy package design. The contributions offer a new model of analysis and comprehension of rural NEETs' personal development and social inclusion, and provide an inspirational resource for new research agendas.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 113 pages
Publication date: 09 February 2024
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This open-access book constitutes a transnational and multidisciplinary inquiry into the most pressing challenges faced by young people who are not in employment, education, or training (NEET) in rural areas across Europe. Rural NEETs are one of the most invisible segments of the youth population, despite the fact that the percentage of NEETs is higher in the countryside compared to those in suburban and urban areas across the EU and many of the Southern and Eastern European countries. This book identifies and analyses different factors that may contribute to or hamper youth social development and social inclusion. Among them are the main individual features of rural NEETs, the quality and characteristics of rural NEETs' informal social networks and support, the singularities of formal and non-formal education in rural areas and how they shape the transition from school to work, the role of employment services in providing adequate institutional support, the importance of policy package design or the role of new paradigms of rural development to uphold vulnerable young people in the European countryside. The contributions offered in this book provide a new model of analysis and comprehension of rural NEETs' personal development and social inclusion. This book therefore establishes the state of the art regarding available knowledge on rural NEETs and represents an inspirational resource for new research agendas on the subject of vulnerable rural youth in Europe. This book also forms the policy design in areas such as education, employment, and social welfare in rural areas.

This open-access book constitutes a transnational and multidisciplinary inquiry into the most pressing challenges faced by young people who are not in employment, education, or training (NEET) in rural areas across Europe. Rural NEETs are one of the most invisible segments of the youth population, despite the fact that the percentage of NEETs is higher in the countryside compared to those in suburban and urban areas across the EU and many of the Southern and Eastern European countries. This book identifies and analyses different factors that may contribute to or hamper youth social development and social inclusion. Among them are the main individual features of rural NEETs, the quality and characteristics of rural NEETs' informal social networks and support, the singularities of formal and non-formal education in rural areas and how they shape the transition from school to work, the role of employment services in providing adequate institutional support, the importance of policy package design or the role of new paradigms of rural development to uphold vulnerable young people in the European countryside. The contributions offered in this book provide a new model of analysis and comprehension of rural NEETs' personal development and social inclusion. This book therefore establishes the state of the art regarding available knowledge on rural NEETs and represents an inspirational resource for new research agendas on the subject of vulnerable rural youth in Europe. This book also forms the policy design in areas such as education, employment, and social welfare in rural areas.

Weight: 207g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031456787
Edition number: 1st ed. 2024