Youth Unemployment and Health Effects

Abstract
Psychological and sociomedical unemployment research have become an important feature of public concern in the industrialised world. This paper focusses on research into youth unemployment and health effects from an international perspective and investigates more closely the following areas: Unemployment and health: research and the political public Youth unemployment: extent and societal coping Young and unemployed—a special problem? a. Skill utilization and social support b. Psychiatric morbidity c. Vulnerability and age d. "Americanization" of youth The demand for a "social guarantee"