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Across Europe, and especially in the UK, the challenge for young people entering the labor market is not always (although sometimes) about getting a job, but the challenge is getting a good job that allows them to progress. It is this very topical issue that this book by Leonard and Wilde is seeking to address. The book gives a holistic and in-depth understanding of the main types of employability programs in the UK today. It will be of interest to scholars in the field of youth (un)employment and transitions from school to work, but also speaks to issues regarding class and regional inequalities.
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Resist! Against a Precarious Future, 2015
Youth unemployment is one of the clearest indications that young people are suffering more than any other generation from the implications of the 2008 financial crisis, and the subsequent policy responses of Britain’s political elite. But an ongoing assault on pay and conditions means that even for many of those young people who are in employment, work can be a miserable experience. We should not assume that these problems are simply the result of the financial crisis; the economic downturn exacerbated trends that were already evident, and that were constitutive of the transformation of the British economy under the stewardship of neoliberalism. This chapter charts, specifically, how unemployment has been individualised, and demonstrates how young people can collectively fight back. It begins by situating young people’s labour market woes within the emergence of a low-wage, services-led economy in Britain, and then offers an account of the real motives behind the coalition government’s failing Work Programme and related initiatives. It argues that the path away from this economy, created in neoliberalism’s image, will not be found for today’s young people by simply adopting a new agenda for labour market policy, but rather by mobi lising in support of a new political economy of employment and work, with radical trade unionism at its heart.
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For example, in the UK, the short-and long-term consequences of high youth unemployment and low participation in employment and training have been found to be far-reaching. The Commission on Youth Unemployment showed that young people aged 16-24 years who were unemployed were more likely to spend longer out of work throughout their lives, be paid less when in work, 3 have poorer mental and physical well-being and be involved in criminal activity. 4 It was estimated that in 2012 alone the costs of youth unemployment were £4.8 billion, plus £10.7 billion in lost output, and in subsequent years this will cost £2.9 billion and £6.3 billion per year respectively. 5
Youth Unemployment Task Force Statements and Comments
The document on Youth unemployment in The Netherlands prepared by the Dutch Colleagues, Jaap de Koning, Arie Gelderblom and Pater van Nes provide an insight of the problems youths experience in entering the labour market and initiatives governments can take to facilitate this transition, particularly with youths at risk. In quoting existent data and describing actions taken by the Dutch workforce set up, a number of issues relating to youth and unemployment are highlighted. These issues are relevant to the Netherlands, Malta and most probably, to the other member states within the EU. Many of these issues will be touched upon at different points in the document. They can be listed to include:
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Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1.1 Aims of the report 1.1.1 Objective one: tackling the supply-side bias 1.1.2 Objective two: de-individualising young people 1.2 Overview of the report 2 Policy review: unemployment and underemployment among youth 2.1 Young people everywhere seeking work 2.2 Understanding the focus on young people 2.3 Tricky definitions and delineations 2.3.1 Who are 'youth'? 2.3.2 Transitioning to adulthood 2.3.3 Heterogeneities 2.4 Concepts and types of work young people engage in 2.4.1 Definitions of 'work' and 'employment' and assumptions about 'productive' work 2.4.2 Formal/informal employed youth 2.4.3 Self-employment/youth entrepreneurship 2.4.4 Household reproduction and domestic work 2.5 Conclusion 3 Supply-side policies for youth work, and their problems 3.1 Supply-side bias of four common interventions 3.1.1 Education 3.1.2 Skills training 3.1.3 Behavioural change 3.1.4 Entrepreneurship promotion 3.2 Supply-side bias and demand-side inadequacies 3.2.1 Misconceptions and wishful thinking 3.2.2 Inefficient or insufficient labour markets? 3.2.3 Economic dualism and lack of structural transformation 3.3 Market inclusion or adverse incorporation of young people 3.4 Conclusion 4 Improving our understanding of young people and work 4.1 Social navigation 4.2 Situated aspirations 4.2.1 The broader values of work 4.2.2 Work and social position 4.2.3 Great expectations? 4.3 Situated agency: restructuring navigation 4.3.1 Social embeddedness and situated agency 4.3.2 Political embeddedness 4.4 Conclusion 5 Conclusions and implications for policy References Boxes Box 2.1 Who is unemployed, who is underemployed? Box 3.1 Entrepreneurship: a demand-side intervention? Box 3.2 An unlimited supply of young labour? The 'Lewis Model' of developing economies
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Bristol University Press eBooks, 2019
Across Europe, and especially in the UK, the challenge for young people entering the labor market is not always (although sometimes) about getting a job, but the challenge is getting a good job that allows them to progress. It is this very topical issue that this book by Leonard and Wilde is seeking to address. The book gives a holistic and in-depth understanding of the main types of employability programs in the UK today. It will be of interest to scholars in the field of youth (un)employment and transitions from school to work, but also speaks to issues regarding class and regional inequalities.
There are two kinds of policy intervention -preventative and curative. A preventative intervention tries to counteract the processes that generate a problem; a curative intervention tries to deal with their consequences. In the case of poverty, for instance, a curative intervention will find out where the poor are and try to alleviate their situation; a preventative intervention will analyze the causes of poverty and devise strategies to prevent it. In the case of youth employment policy, there is a similar distinction: this paper tries to shift the emphasis from curative towards preventative interventions -from treating the symptoms to dealing with the underlying causes 2 .