Youth Unemployment and Job Precariousness

This book aims to provide stakeholders, policymakers and researchers with an evidence-based understanding of youth unemployment, job precariousness and political participation in a contemporary European context, assessing the impact of austerity upon young people's life chances and their response to this situation in respect to political activism.

David Cairns is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. His main research interests are in the fields of youth, geographical and social mobility, education and political participation. To date, he has almost 100 international publications, including articles in International Migration, British Journal of Sociology of Education and Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and two books on the theme of youth mobility. Nuno de Almeida Alves is Head of the Department of Social Research Methods at ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal and a member of Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, ISCTE-IUL. He has conducted research in Portugal on young people, with particular focus upon the impact of job precariousness on transitions to adulthood. He has published several books and articles in this area and on other themes, including recent articles in Journal of Youth Studies and Time & Society. Ana Alexandre is a Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research interests include Portuguese youth, political participation and the study of the armed forces. Augusta Correia is a Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, with research interests including youth, political participation and the environment, with particular focus upon quantitative methods.