8th ESPAnet Conference 2010Social Policy and the Global Crisis:
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9.1. Youth on Volatile Labor Markets
Globalization, and Europeanization have become reference points to explain social change and understand social inequality in modern Europe. These phenomena encompass four interrelated transnational shifts that have intensified in the last two decades:
- The globalization and Europeanization of markets and domestic structures and subsequent decline in the meaning and efficacy at national borders.
- The intensification of competition, i.e., the notion that capital and labor are increasingly mobile, often entailing a turn towards more deregulation, liberalization and privatization.
- The spread of transnational networks of people and firms linked by Information and Communication Technologies, which allow faster diffusion of information over long distances and increasingly allow people to share information.
- The rise in the importance of markets and their dependence on random shocks, which make changes more dynamic and less predictable.
As a consequence, uncertainty about economic and social developments has risen significantly in European nations, triggering employers to move towards more flexible and less binding employment strategies. Previous research has shown that especially for younger people, this rising insecurity has lead to a deterioration of their labor market chances and the continuity of their employment careers, often with negative effects on their life planning and family development. Under the financial crisis, these adverse trends may have expectedly exacerbated.
Against this background, the session aims to reconstruct the labor market situation of youth on contemporary labor markets. Questions to be tackled in the stream include the following: How have young people fared on national labor markets throughout recent years? Have precarious forms of employment for youth increased - and if so: which groups have been affected most seriously? What have been (recent) reactions on both the national as well as the supra-national level and how have these policy responses shaped the situation of youth in a globalizing Europe?
Convenor:
Dr. Dirk Hofäcker
State Institute for Family Research
at the University of Bamberg (ifb)
Heinrichsdamm 4
96047 Bamberg
Phone: ++49 (0) 9 51/9 65 25 - 17
Fax: ++49 (0) 9 51/9 65 25 - 29
Email: dirk.hofaecker@uni-bamberg.de
www: http://www.ifb.bayern.de/index.html
Thursday, 16:30-18:30 Room 03, Session 9.1
Presentations:
1. Marge Unt-Ellu Saar: Expansion of tertiary education: how does it affect returns to education? [abstract] [paper]
2. Irina Serikova, Valentina Goglio: Occupational chances of tertiary graduates in Italy and Russia in comparison [abstract] [paper]
3. Anna Baranowska,Michael Gebel and Teo Matkovic: Informal employment at labour market entry. A comparative study of Croatia, Poland and Ukraine [abstract] [paper]
4. Paul Schmelzer: Labor market entries and early careers in Great Britain since the 1980s [abstract] [paper]
5. Tim Reeskens & Wim van Oorschot: Those who’re in the gutter look at the stars? Explaining perceptions of labor market opportunities among European young adults [abstract] [paper]
Contributed papers:
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Important dates
17 November 2009 = Call for stream convenors
18 December 2009 = Deadline for stream convenors
25 January 2010 = Call for abstracts
29 March 2010 = Deadline for abstract submission
3 May 2010 = Registration starts
6 June 2010 = Reduced fee application deadline
21 June 2010 24:00 (CET) = Early bird registration deadline
13 August 2010 24:00 (CET) - Deadline for submission of papers
16 August 2010 - Deadline for Registrations and payments
Registration fee is 160 Euros for early birds, 210 Euros for late birds. Central and Eastern European PhD students and professionals can apply for a reduced fee of 60 Euros at info@espanet2010.net until 6th June.
Registration opens on the 3rd May, early bird registration closes on the 21th June at 24:00 (CET).
Theme of the Conference
The theme of ESPAnet’s 2010 Annual Conference is the social consequences of the global financial crisis and its differential impact across Europe. The main questions for consideration include:
How is the crisis affecting already existing inequalities? How are different social classes and groups, especially those in poverty, affected by the crisis? What are the adaptable capacities of the different “worlds of welfare”? Does the intensifying social vulnerability lead to the re-structuring of the programs to provide more security? How far have new programs been developed, and how far have new questions of social policy and welfare been opened up by the crisis?
We would like to broaden the horizon of social policy analysis and see global environmental concerns taken into account: How far are responses to the crisis re-thinking the role of the national and international/global state and the role of the European Union in creating economically, socially and environmentally sustainable societies?