Aboavita

1
Transition from School to Work
2
Issues

• lack of information ? difficult to compare
  situations in
• different EU-countries
• educational standards, the availability of
  education and
• even attitudes towards education differ inside
  EU
• youth unemployment and access to labour market
• equality of educational system and labour
  market (needs
• of the special groups and segregation of the
  labour market)
• legislatory needs

3
Questions

• is there enough correspondence between
  education and
• labour market?
• is there a contradiction between the needs of
  the economy and
• the expectations and hopes of the young people
  and unemployed adults?
• how to make access to labour market easier?
• does that inevitably mean that we need more
  flexible labour market and legislation?
• role of the legislation in general does it
  make integration into the labour market easier
  or harder?

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• baby-boom generation is retiring will that make
  integration of youngsters into the labour market
  easier?
• can we (and how) guarantee equal opportunities
  for the young people with the immigrant/ethnic
  background or are the critics right and Europe
  is still a xenophobic continent?