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Youth in New Europe: Economic Activity and EU Policy Preferences

Extant studies document youth disentanglement from participation in many social spheres. The study investigates into differences in policy preferences between youth and middle-aged in post-transition EU economies. Based on the Eurobarometer 93.1 Survey, the respondents’ preferences for one of the 15 different EU budget categories have been analysed. The findings reveal that there is a strong agreement between the youth and the middle-aged in terms of ranking for different policy options. By relying on the multinomial logit approach, the mediating role of respondents’ economic activity (i.e. employment) on the policy preferences has been explored, because youth has been especially adversely affected by unemployment during the latest global financial crisis. The results confirm mediating role of employment, both for the youth and the middle-aged. In the case of youth, the results imply that the school-to-work transition makes them more knowledgeable of, and concerned for, the economy in general. In general, most of the findings confirm the self-interest hypothesis, both in the case of youth and the middle-aged.

Youth, post-transition, (un)employment, policy preferences

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