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NEET: A Phenomenom Yet to Be Explored

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Who are the NEET? How much do we know about this? What do institutions and the media know about them? How different definitions could get to shared policies? This paper tries to provide an initial overview of the situation regarding the NEET, through an analysis of the emerging international literature on the subject. Different definitions across nations are analyzed in order to reflect on the cultural differences and economics-work policies, in order to then analyze more in deep the Italian situation. In Italy, the phenomenon is still little known in society and, often, not recognized by the acronym NEET, with the many variables that define it, despite statistics showing a rise in numbers (26 % of the total population for the age group considered).

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  1. The particular interest in these age groups is motivated by the approval of the Raising the Participation Age (2013) which expands the number of years of compulsory education/training.

  2. Supplementary data are available: http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2013/04/06/neetnestudentinelavoratoridodicimilaragazzi.html?ref=search.

  3. Supplementary data are available: http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2011/06/10/recorddelladisoccupazionenellisolabanitaliaun.html?ref=search.

  4. Supplementary data are available: http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2011/01/20/ungiovanesucinquenonstudiane.html?ref=search.

  5. Supplementary data are available: http://www.lanazione.it/arezzo/cronaca/2011/03/02/467302-generazione_perduta.shtml.

  6. Supplementary data are available: http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2013/marzo/02/crisi_ingrossa_manovalanza_del_crimine_co_0_20130302_7fa83b76830511e2a6f4c9440d503f3e.shtml.

  7. The employment centers in Italy are the offices of the public administration faces to the task of administering the labor market at a local level with the aim of achieving a satisfactory balance between offers and requests for work. It 'should be pointed out that the survey was conducted by telephone, so we also want to emphasize the difficulties encountered during the retrieval of telephone numbers by institutional sites and search engines.

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    Federico Batini, Vanessa Corallino, Giulia Toti & Marco Bartolucci

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Batini, F., Corallino, V., Toti, G. et al. NEET: A Phenomenom Yet to Be Explored. Interchange 48, 19–37 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10780-016-9290-x

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