Abstract:

Because of its high level relative to general and adult unemployment rates, youth un-employment has been a major concern for many developing and developed countries. Failure to effectively benefit from the potential of youth population brings along signifi-cant costs in economic and social fields. There is no doubt that this situation plays an important role in the fight against youth unemployment in many countries to take the first place among the political priorities. Education policies, economic policies and labor market policies are the major policy fields standing out for the fight against youth unemployment. In this paper, it is tried to be determined that how strong policy options are activation strategies and active labor market policies that have gained much importance in recent years in OECD and EU countries to struggle against youth unemployment. In this context, the findings of vari-ous studies trying to determine the effectiveness of activation strategies to struggle against youth unemployment are evaluated. As a result of this evaluation, while it is identified that different activation strategies have different results in terms of employ-ment effects, it is seen that activations strategies, generally, have modestly positive employment effects.

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