A Need to Paradigm Changing in Policy Making for Youth: The Productive Employment

International reports are pointing out that the average youth employment in Iran (15 to 24) is among the lowest levels in the world (%22) and when compared to the world average (%41) it shows a meaningful distance.
In the current essay by using the descriptive-analytic method and by emphasizing on the new institutional theoretical framework, it has been shown that the mental construct of “shortsightedness”- the systematic preference of short term affairs to “the long term priorities”- is the main factor in policy orientations and specific resource allocation methods and it turns the opportunities that come along due to Iran’s relatively young population to undesirable threats.
The analytic findings of the current study show that Partial and one dimensional reform cannot offer a solution for situations like this and the national development system needs a paradigm shift and systemic reform of institutional structures in order to improve the national production ability.
In the final section the general outlines of systemic reform for the institutional structure are introduced.