Youth Labour Markets Unemployment rates for young people [15-24 years of age] have improved markedly across Victoria in the last twelve months. Overall, this is unequivocally a good thing and…

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…

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 […

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…