Young People' s Actual Condition and Development of Youth Policy in UK, Sweden and Italy.

本研究的主要目的是通过对工作行为、教育环境、婚姻家庭形成和公民身份的研究，揭示英国、瑞典和意大利从青年到成年的转变过程。并重点抓好青年政策、家庭政策、就业政策和教育政策。它让我们了解了这些发达国家的年轻人的基本事实和背景，他们成年晚了，伴随着高等教育、不断增长的失业和晚婚/未婚。这项调查的结果与日本国内情况和青年政策进行了比较。选择重点国家的原因如下。首先，以英国青年为例，展示了英国青年在就业市场崩溃和福利国家转型后面临的阶级差异。瑞典的情况将与英国的情况进行比较。总体而言，考虑到就业、金融和社会保障条件，年轻人的生活水平比英国要好得多。与这两个西北欧国家不同，意大利有自己独特的家庭制度和社会经济发展道路。近年来，通过对英国、瑞典、意大利和日本的比较研究，有助于我们更好地理解后工业社会中的青年群体，并为我国提供更有效的社会政策

The main purpose of this research is to reveal the changing process of transition from youth to adulthood in UK, Sweden & Italy, by focusing on working behavior, educational environment, marriage & family formation and citizenship. And it is also to focus on youth policy family policy, employment policy and education policy. It gives us the idea of the essential fact and the background of the youth in these developed countries for whom to reach an adulthood is becoming late accompanied with higher education, growing unemployment, and late/non marriage. The outcome of this survey is compared with the domestic situation and youth policy in Japan. The reason to choose the focused countries is as follows. First of all, the Youth in UK are picked up as to show example of facing the class difference after job market breakdown and conversion of the welfare state. Sweden is to be compared with the situation in UK. Whole in whole, the living standard of young people is much better than that in UK ; considering the condition of employment, finance and social security. Different from these two North-West Europe countries, Italy has original family system and own way of social & economical development. For these years, comparative research between UK, Sweden Italy and Japan give us the hint to understand the youth in the post industrial society, and it may bring the more effective social policy into our country