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All books and no play makes Jack an out-of-work boy
The author would LOVE to thank Ligia María Orellana for her awesome drawings and her awesome self. I have a friend who’s studying abroad, in Mexico. She’ll have a PhD in Demographic Studies before she turns 30. This is highly unlikely in Latin America and even less likely in Central […]
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Create Moldova or Creative Moldova?
I would like to have written about the consequences of the global intergenerational competition. However, this dilemma does not apply (yet) in Moldova which has only a small number of workers who could join the global competition for jobs and measure up to the educational and professional requirements of the […]
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Caught in the Middle – The Dilemma of Young People in Central Europe
With swelling youth unemployment in the EU, young people in Central European youth are facing some difficult, yet not so obvious, choices. In an unequal world, where competition for jobs has become global, reaching for Western European living standards might just not be a sustainable long-term solution. With the spectacular […]
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East Europe’s Lost Generation?
Being young often means being unemployed or working in the wrong job. More and more young people cannot find suitable work after leaving university. I’ve read a lot about youth unemployment in Western Europe and the States, but I haven’t heard much about young people out of work in Eastern Europe. When […]
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Adult Life Put on Hold
I remember the day I passed my final exam at university. It was one of the happiest days of my life as it meant that I was no longer a student and had completed a significant phase of my life. Completing higher education signifies the entry into adult life. You […]