Objective Two INTAS and three NIS teams will investigate the character of the mismatches between the education systems and labor requirements that are responsible for the persistence of high levels of youth unemployment and under-employment throughout the new market economies. The research will interrogate three hypotheses: weak labor demand, wrong skills, and 'partial Americanization' which, if true, will have led to education currently operating according to different principles than the main labor market actors. The project will be based in specimen regions of three NIS: Almaty (Kazakhstan), Bishkek (Kyrgystan) and Samarkand (Uzbekistan), and will involve interviews with representatives of balanced selections of 20 firms per region, and questionnaire surveys of the young (aged up to 30) employees in these firms. The findings will have immediate applications via education policies and labor market interventions in each of the participating NIS, and will also be of wider interest throughout the CIS and the enlarged EU if, as now seems likely, standard remedies for youth unemployment are based on a false diagnosis of the character of the breakdown in education-labor market relationships in the new (and in some of the older) market economies. Programme(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Topic(s) Transforming Societies 2004 - Thematic Call - Transforming Societies - East and West Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Sociology, Economics University of Bremen EU contribution No data Address Parkallee 39 D-28209 Bremen Germany See on map Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Economics Management Research Group Kazakhstan EU contribution No data Address Shagabutdinov 3, app 49 480100 Almaty See on map Total cost No data Economics, Education Samarkand State University Uzbekistan EU contribution No data Address University bvrd 15 703004 Samarkand See on map Total cost No data Liverpool University United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Bedford Street South L69 7ZA Liverpool See on map Total cost No data Sociology, Psychology Socinformbureau, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic Kyrgyzstan EU contribution No data Address Ysembaev 3, App 57 720021 Bishkek See on map Total cost No data