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UK – Youth Unemployment – British youth poorly prepared for world of work
Under-24s need more help into the jobs market and a better apprenticeship structure, a new report claims Charting a path from school or university into the 21st century workplace was already tough for young people even before the Great Recession tore into businesses throughout the country and left more than a million under-24-year-olds unemployed. But … Continue reading
Youth Unemployment – Young Invincibles Calls for Action
Fresh off a win to keep student-loan interest rates down, a youth-advocacy group would like to channel that energy into improving the job market. Young Invincibles released a sobering employment report Tuesday showing 16.5 percent of Americans ages 16 to 24 are without work. Unemployment is 30.2 percent for young African-Americans and 20.5 percent for … Continue reading
Poland – Youth Unemployment
Even though Poland does not belong to the group of countries where the global crisis has had an extensively negative impact on the economy in statistical terms, the main negative phenomena concerning its youth include the rise of unemployment, the growth of precarious employment and in-work poverty. This situation should be attributed to an already … Continue reading
Europe joblessness among young rises – Eurozone: 22.6%, Spain: 52.1%, Italy: 36.2% …
More than one in three young Italians are out of work after the youth unemployment rate hit a record 36.2pc in May. The figure was a rise from 35.3pc in April, and far outpaced the eurozone average of 22.6pc in May. Unemployment among the under-25s also remained a huge problem in Spain, where more than … Continue reading
With so few employers recruiting young people, might the reason be that some candidates simply aren’t good enough?
While the majority of employers are satisfied with their young recruits, a not insignificant minority are not. The next chart shows what proportion of employers (who have recruited a young person) have found their young recruits to be poorly prepared for a variety of reasons. The overwhelming factors are experience and attitude or motivation. Of … Continue reading
UK youth employment challenge – A Report
By comparison to other European countries, youth unemployment in UK is just below average at around 22%, but it is rising and has been rising since 2005. This suggests structural causes beyond the current economic situation: The labour market has been changing in ways that impact negatively on young people Recruitment practices make it increasingly … Continue reading
UK – Higher Education – The proportion of unemployed full-time first degree leavers reaches a high of 10% in 2008/09
In 2010/11 there were 224,045 full-time first degree graduates whose destinations were known, compared to 213,390 in 2009/10. In 2010/11, 63% (140,085) were in employment only and 9% (20,620) were assumed to be unemployed both showing no change since 2009/10. (See Table 1 and Chart 1.) In 2010/11, of the full-time first degree graduates whose … Continue reading
Neet – not in work or education – On the rise in UK
More of England’s teenagers are leaving education without a job, government statistics show. Annual figures show that last year 8.1% of 16 to 18-year-olds were not in education, employment or training (Neet). That is up from 7.5% in 2010. There was also a slight fall in in the proportion of teenagers in full-time education, which … Continue reading
Wage subsides for young workers brought forward in UK
Wage subsidies for firms hiring out of work 18 to 24-year-olds are to be triggered early in 20 deprived areas. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced that payments will be paid when young people have been out of work for six months instead of nine. The initiative is part of the government’s £1bn Youth … Continue reading
The new Intergenerational Fairness Index shows that overall intergenerational unfairness has worsened in each successive year since 2000
On 26 June 2012, the Intergenerational Foundation marked the formal launch of the Intergenerational Fairness Index, representing the first attempt which has ever been made to systematically measure intergenerational unfairness across time by tracking a range of indicators.
France – Lessons on Youth Unemployment and Youth Employment Policy
The last crisis has merely amplified what is an increasingly problematic structural issue in France: Youth unemployment. In the last 30 years, the youth unemployment rate has never dropped below 15% and has regularly exceeded 20%. Yet, integrating young people into the labour market has been an ongoing public policy objective since the end of … Continue reading
Keynes’ Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren
As people in the developed world wonder how their countries will return to full employment after the Great Recession, it might benefit us to take a look at a visionary essay that John Maynard Keynes wrote in 1930, called “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren.”… Source: “Labor’s Paradise Lost” by Robert Skidelsky | Project Syndicate.
UK: Long-term youth unemployment grows eight-fold since 2000
The number of young people out of work for at least a year has grown eightfold in the last decade, a grim analysis shows ahead of Wednesday’s official unemployment figures The report by the TUC reveals an “enormous” increase in long-term youth unemployment over the past 12 years, with the number of 18 to 24 … Continue reading
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More Companies Hiring Veterans | fox4kc.com – Kansas City news & weather from WDAF TV – FOX 4 fox4kc.com – NEAR PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — A company in Pennsylvania is on a mission to hire Veterans. A construction equipment company called Modern Group wants to hire men and women who have served in the U.S. ar… Inequality … Continue reading
Youth unemployment around the world
Youth unemployment across the OECD: how does the UK compare? | News | guardian.co.uk.
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