Territorial disparities and youth labour markets have been often considered as separated themes, due to challenges in data availability. Comparative regional or sub-regional research on youth labour market integration (YLMI) have been therefore scarce. In this article, we address this gap by presenting a composite measure of YLMI that covers a wide range of indicators and sheds light on the EU territorial divide of young peoples’ opportunities at regional level. In order to build the YLMI index, we use benefit-of-the-doubt-weighting, a seminal methodology on composite indicators (CI) that combines sequence with conditional weights based on the range of each sub-indicator. To proof the usefulness of YLMI, we analyze the evolution of regional YLMI in the EU before and after the economic crisis; and the trends of homogenization or differentiation across EU territories. Furthermore, we investigate to what extent employment conditions, skills supply and technological resources explain cross-regional variations in YLMI.

由于数据可用性方面的挑战，领土差异和青年劳动力市场经常被视为独立的主题。因此，关于青年劳动力市场整合（YLMI）的比较区域或次区域研究很少。在本文中，我们通过介绍YLMI的综合指标来解决这一差距，该指标涵盖了广泛的指标，并阐明了欧盟在区域一级对年轻人的机会进行地域划分。为了建立YLMI指数，我们使用了不确定性加权，这是一种综合指标（CI）的开创性方法，该方法根据每个子指标的范围将序列与条件权重相结合。为了证明YLMI的有效性，我们分析了经济危机前后欧盟区域YLMI的演变；以及整个欧盟地区的同质化或差异化趋势。此外，我们调查了就业条件，技能供应和技术资源在多大程度上解释了YLMI的跨地区差异。