"Nini”: Young people who neither study nor work, a situational study on scientific publications worldwide

Abstract

Introduction: The state of alert that the “NEETs” have generated in recent decades is not only related to the fact that it is a figure that has been increasing over time, since the consequences of Inactivity on the part of these young people leads to both aggregate and individual levels, in the short and medium term forcing governments around the world to make urgent decisions. Methodology: A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research works referring to the study of the variables of youth unemployment, education and employment. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document was to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2018-2024 with respect to the study of the aforementioned variables, achieving the identification of 434 publications in total. The information provided by said platform was organized through graphs and figures, categorizing the information by year of publication, country of origin, area of ​​knowledge and type of publication. Once these characteristics have been described, the position of different authors regarding the proposed topic is referenced through a qualitative analysis. Results: Among the main findings made through this research, it is found that the United Kingdom, with 50 publications, was the country with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with institutions of said nation. Conclusion: The area of ​​knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of unemployment in the youth population was Social Sciences with 282 published documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the period indicated above was Magazine articles that represent 83% of the total scientific production.