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Youth in- and Out-of-Work in Arab Mediterranean Countries |
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PP: 51-66 |
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doi:10.18576/ijye/020105
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Author(s) |
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Ken Roberts,
Siyka Kovacheva,
Stanimir Kabaivanov,
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Abstract |
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| This paper presents evidence from quantitative surveys in 2015-16, using a fully structured and standardized questionnaire, among nationally representative samples of 15-29 year olds in five Arab Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia). We also use complementary evidence from in-depth interviews with 29 individuals from three contrasting regions in each of the five countries. The analysis disaggregates unemployment, employment and young people. It inserts this evidence into a youth transitions paradigm, and thereby shows how and why the combination of governments’ neo-liberal social and economic policies and the region’s Arabic and Islamic culture have prevented the demographic surge (the expansion of youth cohorts in the early 21st century) creating crises in the lives of majorities of the region’s young people, or a socio-economic disaster. |
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