This paper is anchored on social entrepreneurship as a panacea for mitigating unemployment among the Nigerian youth. Without overemphasizing condition of in Nigeria, an avalanche studies have substantiated this assertion by reporting that rate youth increase causing frustration, dependency and dejection. With increasing turnout graduates yearly from tertiary institutions, many gradates still re...

This paper assesses empirically two competing unemployment theories. It identifies one structural break in U.K. and German unemployment around 1980 that is more severe in both absolute and relative terms than that for the United States in 1973. This offers support for the structuralist theory. A nonlinear (TAR) model is used to capture fast-up, slow-down unemployment dynamics. Impulse response ...

Reducing unemployment has become a top priority for economic policy in most industrialized nations. While unemployment will ebb somewhat as countries recover from the recent global recession, millions are likely to remain jobless for a variety of structural reasons. Moreover, there is a disturbing trend in many industrialized countries toward long-term unemployment, especially among low-skilled...

This paper sets to investigate the responses of the Greek and Irish social actors (trade unions, employers’ organizations, public agencies) to the youth unemployment which has severely risen in both countries after the outbreak of the economic crisis (OECD, 2009). The rationale behind the comparative perspective stems from our intention to investigate how the institutional structures and the in...

In a longitudinal study, long-term unemployed youth were assessed at T1 on measures of psychological health (self-esteem and psychological distress), general ability and literacy levels. At T2, three occupational groups were established (those employed at T2, those continuously unemployed between T1-T2 and those unemployed at T2 who had been in the paid work force between T1-T2). These three gr...