Francesco Pastore [Ph.D. (Sussex); Dottorato("Federico II"); M.Sc. (Coripe-Piemonte); Laurea ("FedericoII")] qualified as full professor of Economic Policy and as AssociateProfessor of Economics and Economic Statistics in 2013. Currently, he isAssociate Professor of Economics at Seconda Università di Napoli, researchfellow of the IZA of Bonn, Secretary of the Italian Association of LaborEconomists, and member of the executive board of the Italian Association ofComparative Economic Studies. He is a member of the editorial board of a number ofjournals, such as, among others, Sage open, Scuola democratica – Learning forDemocracy, Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, Romanian Journal ofEconomic Forecasting. His research activities have embraced such issues as theschool-to-work transition, regional unemployment and industrial restructuring,economic inequality, gender discrimination, the determinants of trade andcapital flow, the transition from plan to market, the analysis of non-profitorganizations. He has acted as a consultant for, among others, theEU Commission, ILO, UNDP and World Bank. In addition to this monograph, he has published twoedited books for Springer and three special issues of the International Journalof Manpower and a number of scientific articles in such journals as, among others:Journal of Economic Surveys, Stata Journal, Economics of Education Review,European Journal of Development Research, Economics of Transition, ComparativeEconomic Studies.He regularly contributes columns to such onlinepopular magazines as Social Europe, Lavoce.info, Linkiesta, NelMerito,Learning4. His evidence based, policy oriented and thought-provoking columnsare the object of much debate not only in the academic world, but also in allsocial networks.See  interview with the author: http://www.europeandme.eu/27legs/1592-economics-of-education-in-europe

"Pastore's publication in the Springer Briefs in Economics series is a condensed essay, rich in material presented from different perspectives. It combines empirical findings and theoretical discussions and delivers a pleasing reflection on the conceptual change in addressing youth unemployment and theoretical priorities in the related fields of research. In doing so, it is a help for advanced students and scholars when studying youth unemployment and the experience gap from a comparative European perspective." (Hans Dietrich, European Review of Labour and Research, Vol. 21 (3), August, 2015) "The book ... is useful for its non-ideological approach to the issue of youth unemployment ... ." (Translated from Italian, Achille Flora, Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, Vol. XXVIII (3), September, 2014) "The book ... points the youth experience gap as a key concept that provides the basis for to explain the meager youth employment opportunities and earnings, but also national differences in youth labor market outcomes. ... The present book addresses to the segment of readers who includes students who are specialized in labor economics, political economy and business, graduates skilled in the art, and stakeholders and other specialists on the labor market." (Professor Daniela Pasnicu, Annals of Spiro Haret University, anale-economie.spiruharet.ro, Vol. 15 (4), 2014)

• Introduction.- Some Stylised Facts.- The Youth Experience Gap.- The Mainstream Approach to the Causes of Youth Unemployment.- Weaknesses of the Mainstream Approach.- The Interventionist Approach.- A Classification of School-to-Work Transition Regimes.

Francesco Pastore [Ph.D. (Sussex); Dottorato("Federico II"); M.Sc. (Coripe-Piemonte); Laurea ("FedericoII")] qualified as full professor of Economic Policy and as AssociateProfessor of Economics and Economic Statistics in 2013. Currently, he isAssociate Professor of Economics at Seconda Università di Napoli, researchfellow of the IZA of Bonn, Secretary of the Italian Association of LaborEconomists, and member of the executive board of the Italian Association ofComparative Economic Studies. He is a member of the editorial board of a number ofjournals, such as, among others, Sage open, Scuola democratica – Learning forDemocracy, Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, Romanian Journal ofEconomic Forecasting. His research activities have embraced such issues as theschool-to-work transition, regional unemployment and industrial restructuring,economic inequality, gender discrimination, the determinants of trade andcapital flow, the transition from plan to market, the analysis of non-profitorganizations. He has acted as a consultant for, among others, theEU Commission, ILO, UNDP and World Bank. In addition to this monograph, he has published twoedited books for Springer and three special issues of the International Journalof Manpower and a number of scientific articles in such journals as, among others:Journal of Economic Surveys, Stata Journal, Economics of Education Review,European Journal of Development Research, Economics of Transition, ComparativeEconomic Studies.He regularly contributes columns to such onlinepopular magazines as Social Europe, Lavoce.info, Linkiesta, NelMerito,Learning4. His evidence based, policy oriented and thought-provoking columnsare the object of much debate not only in the academic world, but also in allsocial networks.See  interview with the author: http://www.europeandme.eu/27legs/1592-economics-of-education-in-europe

"Pastore's publication in the Springer Briefs in Economics series is a condensed essay, rich in material presented from different perspectives. It combines empirical findings and theoretical discussions and delivers a pleasing reflection on the conceptual change in addressing youth unemployment and theoretical priorities in the related fields of research. In doing so, it is a help for advanced students and scholars when studying youth unemployment and the experience gap from a comparative European perspective." (Hans Dietrich, European Review of Labour and Research, Vol. 21 (3), August, 2015) "The book ... is useful for its non-ideological approach to the issue of youth unemployment ... ." (Translated from Italian, Achille Flora, Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, Vol. XXVIII (3), September, 2014) "The book ... points the youth experience gap as a key concept that provides the basis for to explain the meager youth employment opportunities and earnings, but also national differences in youth labor market outcomes. ... The present book addresses to the segment of readers who includes students who are specialized in labor economics, political economy and business, graduates skilled in the art, and stakeholders and other specialists on the labor market." (Professor Daniela Pasnicu, Annals of Spiro Haret University, anale-economie.spiruharet.ro, Vol. 15 (4), 2014)

• Introduction.- Some Stylised Facts.- The Youth Experience Gap.- The Mainstream Approach to the Causes of Youth Unemployment.- Weaknesses of the Mainstream Approach.- The Interventionist Approach.- A Classification of School-to-Work Transition Regimes.