Study on the transition of youth from school to work and the supporting policies.

本研究旨在探讨改变青年从学校到工作过渡的问题，并评估现行青年政策对青年的影响。我们针对西欧和日本的政策1)研究困难地区的年轻人的情况和政策的效果。我们研究了北海道和冲绳的情况和影响。我们走访和访谈了高中教师、地区青年政策管理者、工作咖啡馆工作人员、非营利组织工作人员等。老师们给想要工作的高中毕业生讲了非常困难的条件。然而，我们发现，求职咖啡馆或青年招聘点的主要客户是大学生和高等教育毕业生。这些政策对处于不利地位的年轻人几乎没有影响。我们还发现，短期终止的预算阻碍了政策提供稳定的支持。例如，工作咖啡馆的大多数员工都是临时员工或终止合同。2)西欧青年政策研究我们研究了欧盟和英国的青年政策，以便与日本进行比较。我们走访和采访了研究人员、管理人员和年轻人支持中心。我们发现，无论是英格兰的康奈克斯，还是苏格兰的职业生涯，都在认识到每一个年轻人的处境的基础上，对弱势年轻人进行了特别的干预。这是日本政策还没有的非常重要的一点。

This Research aims to explore the problems of the changing youth transition from school to work, and estimate the effects of current youth policies to young people. We target Western European policies as well as Japanese policies.1) Research on the situation of young people and the effects of policies in difficult regions.We researched the situation and the effects in Hokkaido and Okinawa. We visited and interviewed high schools teachers, regional youth policy administrators, Job Cafe staffs, staffs of NPO and so on. Teachers told very difficult conditions for high school graduates who want to work. However, We found that main clients of Job Cafe or Young Job Spots are students and graduate of higher education. The policies have little effects on disadvantaged young people. We also found that short terminated budget prevent policies from providing stable supports. For example, most staffs of Job Cafes are temporary or terminated contract.2) Research on Western European youth policiesWe researched EU and UK youth policies for comparison to Japan. We visited and interviewed researchers, administrators and support centres for young people. We found that both Connexions in England and Career Scotland have particular intervention for disadvantaged young peoples based on the recognition of every young people's situation. This is very important point that Japanese policies do not have yet.