Integration of Young People into the Latvian Labour Market

Liva Grinevica; Raimonds Kovalevs

doi:10.1515/eb-2015-0010

Integration of Young People into the Latvian Labour Market

Authors

Liva Grinevica Latvia University of Agriculture
Raimonds Kovalevs Latvia University of Agriculture

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1515/eb-2015-0010

Keywords:

Labour market, youth integration, youth longterm unemployment

Abstract

The research deals with the question of how different resources affect the labour market integration of the long-term unemployed youth. The main hypothesis it advances is that the youth who have access to different resources will find more stable jobs or develop their own business after unemployment than those lacking such different kinds of support. In making the education and employment decisions during the transition from school to work, there is strong evidence of the importance for young people to make good initial career decisions and an enduring effect of academic achievement on labour market and education outcomes. This research is based on scientific discussion of different author opinions and survey results of young people as well as on views on the future vision of authors.

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