Young People and the Labour Market: A Review

This book is the upshot of the EU IRSES project "The political economy of youth unemployment". The project has been an opportunity to set up a network of scholars (mainly from Italian and Russian universities) dealing with youth labour market and policies, viewed in a perspective of comparison between countries. In this Introduction, we briefly summarize, first, the most relevant articles already published by the authors involved in the EU project; and, afterwards, the studies included in the ten chapters of this book