What a difference twelve months makes… or does it? Writing just on twelve months ago, I noted: Youth unemployment is a contentious and growing challenge for policy makers. The impact…
Youth Pathways, Real or Imagined?
Yesterday’s Labour Force data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows some significant [and alarming] firsts in the Youth [15-24] Labour Market: Youth Underemployment is at an all-time high = 18.0% Youth Under-utilisation […
Future of work 2016?
Thanks to @VCOSS – Where will our kids work in the future? New research from the OECD tells us 580,000 young Australians aged between 15 and 29—that’s one in ten—are not…
Rate & Ratio – Youth Unemployment
Youth Unemployment – Then and now Youth unemployment is a contentious and growing challenge for policy makers. The impact of “jobless growth” and modern labour markets where “jobs” are being…
Ken was right…
Capability deprivation.. The Australian Labour Force figures for February 2015 were published this morning. The Youth Unemployment rate [trend] for 15-19 year olds has increased to 20.1%, the highest since June 1997….
The Teenage Dream…
Another timely release from the Brotherhood of St. Laurence in to the trends in Youth Unemployment. This is good work that should be shared widely. The rate and nature of…
…and so it goes
As we await the [overdue] fourth instalment of the Australian Government’s Intergenerational Report and are within the 2015-2016 “Budget Zone”, I thought it timely to revisit a piece written in…
Trends aren’t always Trendy…
Unemployment Trends The Australian Long-Term Unemployment Conference will be held on the 9 -10 November 2015 Hilton on the Park, Melbourne. Following on from the event that was…