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‘Lost Generation’
Jeffrey Joerres, chief executive officer of ManpowerGroup, a Milwaukee-based temporary staffing company, says he worries about the consequences for the greater U.S. economy as well.
“The result will be the same” in the U.S. as it was in Europe, “which is a lost generation and an inability to get back those earnings,” he said. “You worry about productivity loss and you worry about the social costs associated with it.”
Graduates who don’t find appropriate jobs are “missing out on all that time to learn how to be a good worker,” said Thomas Mroz, a professor of labor economics at Clemson University inSouth Carolina. “Things like going to an office every day and greeting customers -- those are things you get better at with practice. You don’t learn it in school.”
For U.S. employers, the worry is that they will end up with a dearth of proficient, motivated workers to keep U.S. businesses competitive, according to Joerres. The longer youth remain shut out of training opportunities, the greater this risk, he said.
No Experience
“The current 25-year-old 10 years from now isn’t going to have the right kind of experience in their background” to become the “first-line and second-line managers,” he said. “You need to act quickly to get these young people some job experience.”
In Europe, the euro countries’ debt crisis is eroding young people’s opportunities from Spain to the U.K. Italy’s 15-to-24 year-olds watched the ranks of their jobless rise to 35.3 percent in July, almost doubling over five years and surpassing the highs reached in the 1990s. Youth unemployment in the European Union was 22.5 percent in July, close to 22.6 percent in May. That was the highest since the euro was created in 1999.
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O ponto central deste artigo é a dificuldade que profissionais com curso universitário têm para encontrar emprego em sua área por consequência da crise econômica.
A matéria afirma que além de se "jogar fora" pessoas com talento, aquelas que eventualmente conseguirem trabalho na área de atuação desejada, terão perdido muito tempo, e, por consequência, não terão experiência necessária, que seria compatível com a idade.