Global Youth Unemployment

History, Governance and Policy

Ross Fergusson, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Nicola Yeates, Professor of Social Policy, The Open University, UK

Publication Date: 2021 ISBN: 978 1 78990 041 5 Extent: 296 pp

This timely book introduces a fresh perspective on youth unemployment by analysing it as a global phenomenon. Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates argue that only by incorporating analysis of the dynamics of the global economy and global governance can we make convincing, comprehensive sense of these developments. The authors present substantial new evidence spanning a century pointing to the strong relationships between youth unemployment, globalisation, economic crises and consequent harms to young people’s social and economic welfare worldwide. The book notably encompasses data and analysis spanning the Global South as well as the Global North.