I Paesi Bassi (74,3%), Danimarca (56,4%) e Germania (45,8%) hanno osservato le percentuali più elevate di giovani che lavorano e studiano contemporaneamente. Al contrario, Romania (2,4%), Grecia (6,0%) e Croazia (6,4%) hanno riportato le quote più basse tra i paesi dell’UE.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20260119-2
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I have been full time student in both France (where nearly nobody works) and Iceland (where nearly everybody does).
Full tine studies in France are from 8 to 17 or more plus homework and other uni project. In paramedic school they told us “if any of you have a dtudent job, quit it, you can’t have that and we will find out.” I had to take a loan, my friend sold cheese on saturdays. She got scolded as if she spat on the president. She kept going and managed.
In Iceland My days were 9-14 randomly and the job market was super flexible
It is actually really sad. What one imagines of as a „student life“ is in truth just the first year. After that people start side jobs, get busy and all the newfound freedom is gone.
At least that‘s my experience 🙁
This title is so uninformative….
Like are they studying at uni and work relevant jobs? Or they HAVE to work BS jobs in order to stay alive while trying to get a useful education?
One is pretty good and the other one is sad.
It’s the same with other yugo’s.
I’m portuguese and I worked 40h/week and studied at the same time, although portuguese university is quite cheap compared to other european countries the truth is that my mom would never had to be able to help me pay my studies.
It was not easy but I’m glad I did it because in the end I felt proud about being able to correctly manage my time and money and I also felt very independent.
Countries where young people move out early, vs. countries where young people stay with larger family for longer?
Bulgaria is on the low end with 6-7%. Coincidentally, it’s extremely easy both to get in and graduate from the average Bulgarian university; you don’t really need to study full-time unless it’s something like medicine. Striking difference compared to the Netherlands or Germany
Or as Chancellor Merz would say: We cannot afford this work-life balance in Germany. We need to work more. /s
>Among the 15-19 age group, 74.4% of women and 70.4% of men remain outside the labour force while in education, showing that they are mostly focused on education in their early years.
That sounds so dystopian, lol. Do they want kids to work after school?
I think it’s important to understand that there’s a different attitude to studying in the Netherlands. When Dutch people go to university they have 3 priorities:
1) Drink lots of beer.
2) Work a side job to afford the beer and rent a place within cycling distance of beer-drinking locations.
3) Pass enough courses to maintain enrollment in university as an excuse to engage in beer-drinking activities.
Hence, working a job at the expense of time spent studying is not considered a negative. In fact, it is often considered desirable, because many student jobs are in hospitality and as such involve further beer-drinking.
As opposed to students in other countries, who might be motivated by more superfluous reasons like acquiring valuable knowledge and skills or getting qualifications that set them up for a successful career after graduation. This is the reason why we have a much higher ratio than even the next two countries (where I imagine there are a bunch of students with similar motivation) rather than any economic factors like a housing crisis (which we do also have in most student cities, to be fair), and I think this has been the case for quite a while.
I think number is misrepresentative for Croatia.
It says employed, but if you are employed then you had to pay full cost of college year. But we have student jobs where student centres act as middleman and you aren’t employed, but you are working, on month to month contracts.
They don’t contribute to pension fund, but they are cheaper for employers since they don’t have to pay taxes or healthcare since you are still counted as normal student and government pays for it.
I studied computer science in Romania. Almost all professors were strongly against students working, insisting that we focus entirely on our studies because the program was extremely demanding.
I chose not to follow that advice because I needed the money, so I started working in my second year. It was a miserable period of my life were I was working 70-80hours a week and sleeping 4-5 hours. I am not sure I would make the same decision again.
Yeah, I have some experience with this. I quit my master’s course because I couldn’t do it in parallel. Work won’t accomodate for exams and obligatory presence at university, university won’t accomodate for work. I had a scholarship but at the time it was barely enough to cover the public transit and some food for the month.
You need a job to pay for university and life expenses because even though we mooch off our parents way more than the average European youth, they can’t provide everything.
I’m from Ireland and worked in tech in Ireland and in Germany.
In Germany the concept of “working student” exists in a way that it doesn’t in Ireland, students have more control of when they do specific classes and can do 50% studying while also working in a relevant industry. This is great because employers have these lower qualified, lower paid young people to take (and learn from) some of the less valuable work while higher paid engineers focus on higher value tasks.
In Ireland we have fixed class and term schedules (engineering was 9-5 five days per week). Universities will usually have an intern program where you go and work full time for relevant companies for 6/9/12 months later in your studies and get graded on it.
This Irish system is okay but not great, in the end you have a few months of work experience on one specific project, and students often have to work minimum wage evening/night/weekend jobs during studies also. The German system allows students to experience multiple different companies/projects over several years, and they can have a pretty good income during their studies.
On the other hand, in Ireland you typically finish an engineering bachelors in four years, or masters in 5/6 years, so start working full time in industry at 22-24. In Germany engineering students who worked in parallel typically enter industry as graduates at around 27/28. So you might find that at 30, both German and Irish engineers have a similar experience level. Separate to this would be that the German students will generally have better engineering universities and more options and diversity in choosing their place/area of work.
All this tells me is youth unemployment and opportunities via proxy.
I had mini jobs from school to uni, never was unemployed. Perfectly normal to do where I grew up and studied, and some of them where even fun (like working at events). At school or uni holidays, I worked more, if possible (uni exams make this tough).
Since family helped me to finance at least part of my study and I managed to get a small performance-based grant halfway in, I was even able to throw some money in stocks while studying, which gave me a nice starting budget when I joined work force as a poor broke and suddenly faced adult issues like having to buy a f*cking kitchen. Naive me thought my first big issue after uni will be finding a job, instead it was equipping the first proper flat wiping my budget lol.
10/10 would do again, even if I could have made do with begging fam for more money, or if I would have gotten some state subsidies. 10yr of 100 Euro savings rate alone give you either a nice boost in wealth, or you can use the money to make more unforgettable experiences. And, IMHO, working a bit at young age helped me grow up and learn to take on responsibilities. I am not angry I wasn’t sheltered from that because my family was never rich.
Edit: Also, some countries have studies that include work, as working students or in “dual” studies that include a 50/50 split between uni and on-the-job experience. These will naturally increase the numbers for, eg, Germany and Netherlands.