The relationship between the business cycle and youth unemployment in general is well explored at the macro level; in what follows the effect of the last recession on youth unemployment is in focus. Various studies from Blanchflower, Freeman 2000) or Jimeneo, Rodriguez-Palenzuela (2002) or OECD (2006) in Dietrich (2012)
confirm sensitively relationship between youth unemployment with business cycle than adult unemployment;The correlation coefficient allows us to simply identify the strength of the linear relationship between business cycle and youth unemployment. The business cycle is measured by GDP growth.