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• Intro
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Executive summary
• Chapter 1. Global and regional trendsin youth employment
• Introduction
• 1.1 The youth labour force participation rate is decreasing globally
• 1.2 The share of young people in employment is also declining
• 1.3 Youth enrolment in education shows positive trends
• 1.4 Youth unemployment rates are stable but remain higher than those for adults
• 1.5 The potential of young people is not being fully harnessed
• 1.6 Employment quality challenges persist

• 1.7 Technology is transforming labour market opportunitiesfor young people but also presenting them with new challenges
• Chapter references
• Chapter 2. Jobs for young peoplein an evolving technological landscape
• Introduction
• 2.1 Technological advances can both mitigate and exacerbatethe employment challenges faced by young people
• 2.2 Technological anxieties are often more pronounced among the young
• 2.3 Labour market impacts of technological advancesdiffer across age groups
• 2.4 Risk of automation is highest in jobs held by young people

• 2.5 Higher education provides entry to less automatable jobs, while vocational training is associated with more automatable jobs
• 2.6 Automatable jobs are associated with subsequently more difficultlabour market transitions, particularly for young people
• 2.7 Skill-related alternatives to automatable occupationsare themselves at risk
• 2.8 New policies are required to ensure a bright future of workfor young women and men
• Chapter references
• Chapter 3. Occupational changes and the roleof public employment services in helping youngpeople to navigate the labour market
• Introduction

• 3.1 Shifts in occupational demand for entry-level jobs
• 3.2 Impact of digital technology on public employment services
• 3.3 Certain challenges need to be tackled in the adoptionof new technologies by public employment services
• 3.4 Conclusions
• Chapter references
• Chapter 4. Unequal distribution of the benefitsof technological change among young people
• Introduction
• 4.1 Technological change can lead to greater inequality
• 4.2 Wage inequalities are particularly pronounced among the young
• 4.3 Returns to education have decreased in recent years

• 4.4 The level of educational attainment has a strong influenceon NEET rates in most but not all subregions
• 4.5 Policy messages
• Chapter references
• Chapter 5. Policy implications:Preparing a better future for young people
• Introduction
• 5.1 New technologies present both risks and opportunitiesin the creation of decent jobs for young people
• 5.2 New technologies have the potential to enhancethe support provided to young people
• 5.3 Involvement of young people in social dialogue is essential
• Chapter references
• Appendices
• A. Regional, country and income groupings

This report on the global youth labour market situation shows where progress has or has not been made, updates youth labour market indicators, and analyses trends in youth population, labour force, employment and unemployment. The 2020 edition discusses the implications of technological change for the nature of jobs available to young people.

• Intro
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction
• 1.1 Overview
• 1.2 Organization of the report
• 2. Global and regional trends for youth employment
• 2.1 Sharp declines in youth labour force engagement
• 2.1.1 Dependency ratios are rising
• 2.1.2 Gender participation gaps are narrowing
• 2.2 Global youth unemployment expected to rise slightly
• 2.2.1 Young people continue to be over-represented among the unemployed
• 2.2.2 Regional youth unemployment trends vary but are largely negative in emerging regions

• 2.3 Employment quality remains a major concern
• 2.3.1 Working poverty disproportionately affects youth
• 2.3.2 Majority of employed youth are in the informal economy
• 2.3.3 Many young people are neither in employment nor in education or training
• 2.4 Demographic shifts, desires to migrate and implications for youth
• 2.4.1 Population and labour supply increasing in developing and emerging countries
• 2.4.2 Ageing societies influence youth labour markets
• 2.4.3 Youth and labour migration
• 2.5 It is not easy to be young in the labour market today
• Chapter references

• 3. Measuring transitions: pathways to decent work
• 3.1 Transitions to work and beyond
• 3.2 Factors influencing transitions
• 3.2.1 Socio-economic factors
• 3.2.2 Educational factors
• 3.2.3 Work-study combination and work-based learning
• 3.3 Smoothing the path
• Chapter References
• 4. Future of work for youth: Technology and sectoral shifts
• 4.1 New technologies and job creation and destruction
• 4.1.1 Impacts will vary with the level of development and economic structure of countries
• 4.1.2 Impacts will vary by skill levels
• 4.1.3 Impacts will vary between generations

• 4.2 Growth sectors for young workers in the past decade
• 4.3 Sectoral spotlight: Technology and young workers' prospects for the future
• 4.3.1 Financial services
• 4.3.2 Health services
• 4.3.3 Manufacturing
• 4.3.4 Transport and storage, information and communications
• 4.3.5 Trade, hotels and restaurants
• 4.4 New technology for a new generation of workers
• Chapter References
• 5. New forms of youth employment
• 5.1 Diverse, non-standard forms of work
• 5.2 New forms of employment and the platform economy
• 5.3 The work that young people want
• 5.4 An uncertain future

• Chapter references
• 6. Policies for a better future of youth employment
• 6.1 Stimulating jobs for youth through pro-employment economic policies
• 6.1.1 Macroeconomic policies
• 6.1.2 Sectoral strategies
• 6.2 Developing skills strategies to prepare youth for changing labour markets
• 6.2.1 Building technical and core skills
• 6.2.2 Lifelong learning and continuous upskilling and reskilling
• 6.2.3 Integrating information and communications technologies (ICT) into education
• 6.2.4 Work-based training
• 6.3 Technology and active labour market measures

The Global Employment Trends for Youth reports set out the youth labour market situation around the world. The 2017 report discusses the implications of technological change for the quantity and quality of youth work, trends in sectoral employment, the forms of work available to young people and transitions from education into employment.

"Zimbabwe celebrated its independence just over 40 years ago. While the nation is no longer young, its population certainly is: over 60% are under the age of 35. Understanding youth perspectives and experiences is therefore vitally important. Fending for Ourselves reviews the recent histories and realities of youths in Zimbabwe, offering a distinguished range of authors exploring issues of education, employment and work, the urban experience, involvement in the informal economy, mental health, and political activity. Importantly, the collection examines successive generations of youth in Zimbabwe to show how ideas, experiences and reactions to the social, political, and economic context have shifted over time. Many of the issues affecting youth over the past 40 years have been traumatic and distressing – physical and mental abuse, declining employment and educational opportunities, poverty, ill-health and loss of hope – but this collection underlines the agency and resilience of Zimbabwe’s young people, and how they have found ways to navigate the political, social, and economic terrains they occupy."-- Back cover

• CONTENTS Preface ARTICLES Differential Reconstruction of Religions among Second Generation Immigrant Youth in Canada - Peter Beyer Youth, Spirituality, and Religion in Canada and Quebec - Solange Lefebvre in collaboration with K. Gandhar Chakravarty Brazilian University Students and Religion - Ari Pedro Oro and Mauro Meirelles Developments in Spirituality among Youth in Australia and Other Western Societies - Michael Mason, Andrew Singleton and Ruth Webber The Religiosity of Youth in Australia and Thailand - Philip Hughes Youth and Religion in Modern China: A Sketch of Social and Political Developments - Fenggang Yang Young People and Religion in France - Celine Beraud and Jean-Paul Willaime Youth and Religion in Finland - Kati Niemela (Dis)engagements with Christianity amongst Young People in England and Scotland - Giselle Vincett and Sylvia Collins-Mayo German Youth: Neither Participants nor Partakers in Religion? - Gert Pickel The Quest for Religious Purity in New Age, Evangelicalism and Islam. Religious Renditions of Dutch Youth and the Luckmann Legacy - Johan Roeland, Stef Aupers, Dick Houtman, Martijn de Koning and Ineke Noomen Religion and Youth in Croatia - Dinka Marinovic Jerolimov and Boris Jokic Young Muslims of Italy. Islam in the Everyday Life and the Public Visibility of a New Generation of Muslims - Annalisa Frisina Believers in Progress. Youth and Religion in Italy - Giuseppe Giordan NOTES Lifestyles and Religion - Luigi Berzano Visual Sociology and Religion - Roberto Cipriani and Emanuela C. Del Re FOCUS ON The United States: God Bless America - William H. Swatos, Jr. Religion in the Netherlands - Erik Sengers Religion and Politics in Portugal: Religious Landscape and Prospective Developments - Helena Vilaca List of Contributors.
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The purpose of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (ARSR) is to investigate the "new" role of religion in the contemporary world, which is characterized by cultural pluralism and religious individualism. It is the aim of the ARSR to combine different methods within the social scientific study of religion. The ARSR employs an interdisciplinary and comparative approach at an international level, to describe and interpret the complexity of religious phenomena within different geopolitical situations, highlighting similarities and discontinuities. Dealing with a single theme in each volume, the ARSR intends to tackle the relationship between the practices and the dynamics of everyday life and the different religions and spiritualities, within the framework of the post-secular society. This volume presents the religious and spiritual life of the young: an ever new and complex world which highlights the changes that are happening in the field of religion in general. With an outlook which is opened to various international contexts, its chapters offer a picture of the current situation between religion and the young, suggesting possible future trends.
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Most journal articles, edited volumes and monographs on youth language practices deal with one specific variety, one geographical setting, or with one specific continent. This volume bridges these different studies, and it approaches youth language from a much broader angle. A global framework and a diversity of methodologies enable a wider perspective that gives room to comparisons of youth's manipulations and linguistic agency, transnational communicative practices and language contact scenarios. The research presented addresses structural features of everyday talk and text, youth identity issues related to specific purposes and contexts, and sociocultural emphases on ideologies and belonging. Combining insights into sociolinguistic and structural features of youth language, the volume includes case studies from Asia (Indonesia), Australia and Oceania (Arnhem Land, New Ireland), South America (the Amazon, Chile, Argentina), Europe (Germany, Spain) and Africa (Uganda, Nigeria, DR Congo, Central African Republic, South Africa). It expands on existing publications and offers a more comparative and "global" approach, without a division of youth's strategies in terms of geographical space or language family. This collection, including a conceptual introduction, is of interest to scholars from several linguistic subfields working in different regional contexts as well as sociologists and anthropologists working in the field of adolescence and youth studies.
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• pt. 1. Youth in a global economy: Global trends
• Young people in poverty: dimensions and policy implications
• Chronic, life-course and intergenerational poverty
• pt. 2. Youth in a civil society: Global trends
• Impact of global media on youth culture
• Global media culture and young people's active role in society
• pt. 3. Youth at risk: Global trends
• Gender dimensions of youth affected by armed conflict.

It is ten years since the General Assembly adopted the World Programme of Action for Youth in 1995. This publication deals with fifteen identified priority issues, grouped under three main contexts in which youth deal with challenges and concerns: youth in a global economy, youth in civil society, and youth at risk. It reports over 200 million youth living in poverty, 130 million youth illiterate, 88 million unemployed and 10 million young people living with HIV/AIDS.
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