Young people (aged 15-29) neither in employment nor in education and training. 2021

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  1. Italy’s data are pretty worrying…

    Can you please provide the link of the source of these data? Are there explanation and study of NEET in EU countries (i.e. why in some countries the situation is worse than others, the gender gap in NERT numbers, if they include also immigrants, …)

  2. Funny things is that stereotype is that average NEET is a male spending whole days playing video games and living in parents house. While numbers show that average NEET is actually female in most countries.

  3. Age group 15-29 is 15 years. So one year is equivalent to 7% if the neetnes is evenly distributed.

    Young people that take a gap year for traveling. Which is good represent the already 7%

    Many take a gap year in their late teens an twenties

  4. I wonder if there are statistics correlating neets to young pregnancies. At first sight, it seems that the two match, there being more women in the poor countries that have this problem.

  5. Yeah, 2021, the year when a lot of jobs staffed primarily by younger people (baristas, waiters, etc) were not open due to Covid. I’d love to see this data across a few years.

  6. So if they don’t work or study then wtf are they doing? How do they eat? Maybe they are not officially employed, or is this self reported?

  7. I don’t know any 15 to 29-year-old that is not working or studying. So I think this is correct. I’m from The Netherlands.

  8. Not surprised for Serbia. I know at least several people with that status. I was shocked when a close friend of mine (almost 28 yo) told me that he does not want to work because he “can work full-time only in a job that would inspire him”. He did not knew to answer on question what is his dream job. His parents send him money to live in the capital city. And he is not the only one.

    While I always start from analysis of social-economic structure and context when it comes to employment, you cannot simply dismiss this kind of psychological factor as well. Also, a lot of people in Serbia live with parents throughout their 20s, even 30s.

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