A Study on Youth Unemployment in Spain: Economic Crisis and Solutions

This report investigates the significant rise in youth unemployment in Spain, attributing it to the economic crisis and its impact on the European Council. The study analyzes unemployment rates among the 16-25 and 26-29 age groups, identifying education and the economic crisis as key contributing factors. The paper examines the causes of youth unemployment, including deficiencies in the education system and labor market, and the impact of early school leaving and educational polarization. It presents data, charts, and graphs to support its findings and proposes training programs and educational reforms as preventive measures to mitigate the rising unemployment rate. The report provides a detailed analysis of the issue, including project objectives, motivation, targets, and budget, offering insights into the challenges and potential solutions to youth unemployment in Spain.

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Youth Unemployment in Spain
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Executive Summary
The paper is based on significant increase into the rate of youth unemployment in Spain. It is
caused due to economic which had led to the European Council. This paper also analyzes the rate
of unemployment under the age groups of 16-25 years and 26-29 years. Two individual age
groups are considered in this case to identify the higher rate of unemployment into the age group.
Education and economic crisis are two significant causes of youth unemployment into Spain.
Therefore, training program and proper education system are considered as the preventive
measures to mitigate the increasing rate of youth unemployment.

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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................3
2.0 Summary of the case from the provided article.........................................................................3
3.0 Project objectives and vision.....................................................................................................5
4.0 Motivation..................................................................................................................................5
4.1 Graphs and charts supporting the motivation........................................................................7
5.0 Targets of the project.................................................................................................................9
6.0 Justification of targets..............................................................................................................10
7.0 Budget......................................................................................................................................10
8.0 Timeline...................................................................................................................................11
9.0 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................16
References......................................................................................................................................17
Appendix........................................................................................................................................19
1. Budget Plan............................................................................................................................19

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1.0 Introduction
Flek, Hála and Mysíkova (2015) stated that evolution of the unemployment among young
people under the age of 25 years into Spain followed patterns into the European Union. Annual
unemployment rate is higher into Spain which increased from the year 2009. The purpose of this
paper is to study the youth unemployment into Spain by investigating the characteristics as well
as consequences and suggesting of proper measures to handle it. This particular paper also
analyzes the main factors which are responsible for higher vulnerability of the young people into
the economic crisis. It also focuses of the possible measures aim to encourage creation of jobs
for the young people those are unemployed. It also include of graphs and charts with the data on
youth unemployment for period between the year 2009-2012 (Cabases Pique, Pardell Vea and
Strecker 2016). Based on the labor market into Spain, young people are of aged among 16-25.
This paper had critically analyzed an article namely “The EU youth guarantee – a critical
analysis of its implementation in Spain” and also analyzed the evolution of age group of 16-25
years and 26-29 age groups of young people. From the evidence, it is investigated that evolution
of the unemployment among young people over past decades followed similar trend of European
average (Sanchez, 2012). The analysis will show that change into the economic cycle into Spain
lead to growth into unemployment. This paper identifies the causes which makes the
employment situations of the young people more critical into Spain. It provides with detailed
analysis of the young unemployment throughout the economic crisis.

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2.0 Summary of the case from the provided article
The article “The EU youth guarantee – a critical analysis of its implementation in Spain”,
analyzes the significant increase of youth unemployment into Spain due to the economic crisis
which was caused in Europe. Between the years 2008-2012, almost three million of jobs were
lost, and the result was that 10 percent of employment level had fallen while unemployment rose
to 5.6 million with rate of 24.6 percent. This percentage is highest into the European Union (EU).
Significant decline into the youth employment has not influenced age groups with young people
are hard hit (Cabases Pique, Pardell Vea and Strecker 2016). There are many young people of
age below 25 years are unemployed in the year 2012, therefore the youth unemployment rate in
Spain is 52 percent.
The working condition of the young population is focused on efficiency of the education
system. Into the business environment, supplying of job as well as increasing demand of training
needs is based on quantity of the educational level (Zimmermann et al. 2013). There is a
relationship between the educations systems as well as job market is also bidirectional. With the
economic crisis into the Spanish real estate, most of the young people those have lower
educational level are unemployed. At first the researcher looks at the causes of the youth
unemployment into Spain due to deficiencies of the educational system as well as labor market.
The most significant causes are early school leaving as well as polarization of the education.
Eichhorst and Neder (2014) stated that educational related decisions as well as evolution of the
labor market are inter-connected. Aguilar-Palacio et al. (2015) argued that malfunctions into the
educational environment towards job environment leads to increase into youth unemployment.
Descriptive analysis is done to analyze the risk of unemployment falls by means of age of
individual as well as educational level. It also provides the impacts of the characteristics on

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possibility of being out of the work (Boot, Wilson and Wolff 2016). Among the university
graduates, there is an increase of rate of unemployment into Spain, and before the economic
crisis, there is high level of over education which is observed among the young people of
Spanish graduates with employment level. This particular article stated the importance of the
education system along with training which affects the Spanish educational system.
3.0 Project objectives and vision
In Spain, there is a rose into youth employment rate such that the Spanish economy is
appeared to be a gap into the countries of Europe. The employment rate of age group between
16-25 years had dropped by more than 27 percent. Following are the objectives of this particular
study:
 To analyze the rate of unemployment in Spain from 2009-2012
 To analyze the age group of young people those come under youth unemployment
 To compare the unemployment rate of age group between 16-25 years and 26-29 years
 To determine the causes of youth employment and take possible measures
Vision statement is: To study the youth unemployment into Spain by analyzing the
economic crisis
4.0 Motivation
It is observed that Spain is suffered from a huge unemployment rate. Higher level of
youth unemployment is caused due to structural problems into the labor market which affects the
workers of young ages the most (Flek, Hala and Mysikova 2015). Spain consisted of youth
unemployment rate of approximately 52 percent because of its entire rate is 26 percent. The

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strategies which are used to prevent the youth unemployment are prioritizing the policy changes
which improve the entire performance of the labor market of Spain to achieve of reduced
unemployment rate (O’Reilly et al. 2015). Further research is addressed to improve match
among supply as well as demand of the skills. Between the year 2009-2012, Spain had a decline
of 1.9 million of young people into employment. During this period, nearly 67 percent of the
people lost their jobs and become unemployed (Lahusen, Schulz and Graziano 2013). It occurred
into both the age group of 16-25 and 26-29, but it affected the worse of age group between 16-25
years.
Unemployed people have taken part into the training activities. The young people those
are completed the training programs in the year 2010 have acquired knowledge on both training
as well as management. Half of the unemployed young people are taking training and taking
courses that lasted less than 200 hours. However, 19.3 percent has completed 400 hours of the
training program (Eichhorst, Hinte and Rinne 2013). Completion of the higher secondary
education reduces the probability of unemployment by 17.2 percent which is more as compared
to earlier expansion cycle. Therefore, most of the young people are focused on training program
as preventive measures of unemployment. A key significant aspect of this particular situation is
that the total number of temporary jobs is remained higher over the years (Caliendo and Schmidl
2016). It facilitates incorporation in labor market of the young people during the economic
expansion but also leads to higher degree of vulnerability.
The rate of the youth unemployment is varied between various educational levels. The
young people those have higher secondary education are experiencing of lower unemployment
rate that left the educational system with rate above 19.5 percent. On the other hand,
unemployment among the young people with lower level of education rose of 30 percent.

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The project provides a social impact into Spain, where it effects on the labor market by
change into economic cycle which profound than in the European countries. There is
significance importance of this study as this project work helps us to become familiar with the
employment and unemployment rate of Spain. It also helps to identify the factors which rise to
youth unemployment. It is also understandable that unemployment has not affected the age
groups but it affects the young people a lot. The main impact of this project is to study youth
unemployment examines the causes and suggests of possible measures to handle the issues.
4.1 Graphs and charts supporting the motivation
16-25 years of age group
26-29 years age group
Chart 1: Youth unemployment among age 16-25 years and 26-29 years
(Source: Cueto, Mayor and Suárez 2017, pp-7)
2009 2010 2011 2012
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36.6
41.3
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30 32
41
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Justification
From the above figure, it is analyzed that the Chart 1 is based on youth unemployment
among age between 16-25 years as well as 26-29. In the year 2009, the unemployment rate is
36.6 which increase by 18 percent in the year 2012. Therefore, year-by-year, there is an increase
of youth unemployment in Spain. On the other hand, in the year 2009, the rate of unemployment
for 26-29 years of age group are 30 percent while increases in the year 2012 by 19 percent.
Chart 2: Spain: Youth unemployment rate by educational attainment
(Source: Ismail and Kollamparambil 2015, pp-305)
Justification
From the above Chart 2, it is analyzed that the youth unemployment is based on rate of
primary and higher secondary education level. Primary education is the main concern for the
researcher as it is more as compared to higher secondary education. It is also increasing year-by-
year. In the year 2009, primary education rate is 36%, while higher secondary education rate is
2009 2010 2011 2012
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10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
36
40
45 47
30 32
39 41
Primary education
Higher Secondary education

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30%. Similarly, in 2012, primary education rate is 47%, while higher secondary education rate is
41%.
Chart 3: Spain: unemployed who completed training activity
(Source: Lahusen, Schulz and Graziano 2013, pp-302)
Justification
From the above chart 3, 47 percent of young people have less than 200 hours, 30% have
200-399 hours those are involved into training courses. From 400-599, there is total percentage
of 19.3% while more than 600 hours, there is 4%.
47%
30%
19%
4%
Unemployed who completed training activity
Less than 200 hours
From 200 to 399 hours
From 400 to 599 hours
600 hours or more

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5.0 Targets of the project
The target of this project is to confront the higher level of youth unemployment by
expanding of training programs to educate young people. Creating of more jobs with provide
support of income, employment services and cash transfer programs (Flek, Hala, M. and
Mysíkova 2015). An educational system is prepared for the young people to tackle education at
school level, reinforce the role of training and vocational training to promote of classroom
learning. The project work also analyzes the factor which determines probability of being
unemployed provide importance to both education and age during the economic crisis.
6.0 Justification of targets
In order to meet with the target of analyzing the factors which causes youth employment
are education and age, therefore data are analyzed for two age groups such as 16-25 and 26-29
years. There are two educational level which are considered such as primary and higher
secondary educational level (Bentolila, García-Pérez and Jansen 2017). There is also a
requirement of educational policy changes so that early school leaving should be eliminated from
the primary schools. In order to achieve the target, the researcher promotes of classroom learning
in addition to vocational training. The young people those are under the higher secondary
education have experienced lower youth unemployment rate as compared to primary educational
system (Oesingmann 2017).
7.0 Budget
Budget is required to be estimated so as to become familiar with the total money spend
into the project plan. The entire budget of the project plan is 113, 720 € with a total duration of