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Abstract: Intipucá is a very small, dusty and hot town in rural El Salvador. However, it used to be one of the richest towns in the country. Said [...]
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‘Where are you from?’ is the first question everyone asks you. It's a question I can't stand. Explaining my origins and identity takes a long time. Why? Well, I was [...]
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As economic immigrants, where do we find our cultural identity? The answers are probably as unique as every immigrant who arrives in a new country. So I decided to ask [...]
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Sasha and I were colleagues in university. He was a mediocre student. After graduation I didn't manage to find any work paying more than 30 euro a month. So I [...]
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In the middle of March in Brussels about 40 representatives of civil society from European Union candidate countries (South-East Europe, Turkey and Iceland) attended the European Commission study tour “Direct [...]
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High numbers of pensioners, young people’s drive for education and prosperity and the growing gap between the young and the rich are all changing the British landscape. The welfare state [...]
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Known as the unofficial anthem of Australia, 'Waltzing Matilda' is a song we learn from a young age. The title gives the impression of a woman named [...]
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I’m a “Gen Y-er.” At the age of 30, I just fit in to the classification. Over the past several decades, work culture has changed significantly in Australia, [...]
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This article is written by Dragos C. Costache and Maria Zirra When Romania acceded to the EU in 2007, there was a wave of public euphoria. The country was already riding [...]
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Are Australian undergraduates looking forward to getting employed when they graduate, or are they concerned about prospects in Australia? "Go to university," they said. "It'll be fun," [...]
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Apparently, India has 75 million unemployed young people. To put this in perspective, this figure is equal to the whole population of Iran. Yes, the Indian economy is growing rapidly [...]
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2 Dec 2012 Belgrade It’s Sunday. I’ve got message on WhatsApp from Nenad. Brussels first snow, he wrote. Then we chatted a bit. Look at Brussels last [...]
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The youth unemployment situation in Spain is disturbing: more than 50% of young people (between 18 and 30 years old) are unemployed. This has caused a strong immigration wave of Spanish [...]
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None of us saw it coming. It was a cold November afternoon in a Berlin. We were huddled around four scratched-up tables practicing German. The topic was rent hikes caused [...]
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Abstract: While the delapidated economies of the so called "first world" strongly beat the European and North American youth, Brazil, by means of an historical inversion, moves forward with safe steps [...]
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In search of employment opportunities, young people from the outer provinces of Solomon Islands flock to Honiara - the country’s capital - in massive droves. There, they bunk [...]
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Like most of the developed world, Slovakia also faces the problem of an aging population. With ever more elderly people and fewer children, the state pension system requires the raising [...]
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Sixty-five percent of Africa’s population is under the age of 24, with over 40 percent of the total population below the age of 16, and about 25 percent between the [...]
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Not too many years ago I used to commute regularly with three brothers, all of whom were students in one of the most reputable schools in the city. The eldest [...]
