Measuring the Achievement of Maguire in Analyzing the NEET and its Counteractions
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Leyla Jafarli
Measuring the Achievement of Maguire in Analyzing the NEET and its Counteractions
In the article, “NEET, unemployed, inactive or unknown - why does it matter?” by Sue Maguire, the main idea is about reducing the unemployment of the youth between 16-24 by calling state and special organizations to action. Maguire states that the tremendous increase in the number of unemployed young people, leads to the fact that policies that are designed for this particular issue are not effective, and it is indeed important to resolve it. Defining the unemployed youth, NEET, is a term that lacks clarity among the society, which is also considered to be one of the main reasons why there is a rise in the NEET people. As a result of her research, the …show more content…
First of all, after discussing failures of the policies designed to reduce the number of NEET people, the only thing the author gives recommendation to is the more accurate analysis of the data, regarding the number of unemployed, inactive and unknown youth. However, the author should’ve given the suggestions through the case studies that would create deeper understanding, and would thrive the responsible people to change their direction. Thus, the oversimplified recommendations make the article not strong in purpose and decreases the effectiveness of the article itself. Moreover, the interpretation of the inactive and unknown youth is not as successful as the interpretation of the unemployed youth is, which means that either the structure of the article, or the accuracy in writing is weak. It would’ve been better to mention the preference of the addressed target group among the NEET as the unemployed, which would narrow down the article, and make it more specific to