{"id":1412,"date":"2014-10-16T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2016-08-13T01:38:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T01:38:44","slug":"long-term-youth-unemployment-triples-in-six-years-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/long-term-youth-unemployment-triples-in-six-years-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-term youth unemployment triples in six years: study"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Kylar Loussikian, The Conversation<\/em><\/p>\n

More than 50,000 young people have been unemployed for more than a year, with the average length of unemployment almost doubling \u2013 from 16 to 29 weeks \u2013 over the last six years.<\/p>\n

This means nearly 18% of unemployed 15 to 24 year-olds now fall into the \u201clong-term unemployed\u201d category, according to a new analysis released today by the Brotherhood of St Laurence.<\/p>\n

While the study did not say why there had been an increase in the length of time young people were unemployed, researcher Francisco Azipitarte says it \u201cclearly suggests that since 2008 there has been a decline in employment opportunities for young people\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is reflected in the increasing number of youth who are unemployed and the rise in the average time that young individuals stay unemployment once they lose their job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Veronica Sheen, research associate at Monash University, said youth unemployment has increased since the financial crisis, but it was also important \u201cto bear in mind that it has been as high as it is currently and indeed much higher for many years\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn unemployment rate for young Australians has hovered between 12% and 16% for most of the past 40 years. It hit almost 20% in the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

But not only does long-term unemployment \u201churts a young person\u2019s financial and psychological well-being\u201d, it could also increase the chances of ongoing unemployment, the report found.<\/p>\n

Those who experience unemployment while young \u201care more likely to be unemployed, have poor health and have lower educational attainment\u201d than those who are employed at that age, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n

Earlier research for the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey found more than 20% of those unemployed when they were young were unemployed again after the age of 25.<\/p>\n

Dr Azipitarte said this could be explained \u201cby the loss of employability skills and the negative effect that unemployment (especially long-term) has on employer\u2019s assessments of job candidates\u201d.<\/p>\n

The earlier research found low-skilled individuals would be worst effected by long-term unemployment, because job experience was \u201ccritical\u201d to their ability to find work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, research has found having post-school qualifications reduces the scarring effects of unemployment over time,\u201d Dr Azipitarte said.<\/p>\n

More than 62% of those unemployed in their youth have not completed high school.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite years of effort to increase education retention, and improve skills for the contemporary workforce, there has been no real inroads into the problems,\u201d Dr Sheen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s partly an issue of generational social capital, whereby the effects of class and social advantage are felt very strong especially in the youth labour market,\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis includes factors such as parents income and employment, going to a private school, and geographical location.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This article was originally published on The Conversation<\/a>.
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By Kylar Loussikian, The Conversation More than 50,000 young people have been unemployed for more than a year, with the average length of unemployment almost doubling \u2013 from 16 to 29 weeks \u2013 over the last six years. This means nearly 18% of unemployed 15 to 24 year-olds now fall into the \u201clong-term unemployed\u201d category, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":5800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5802,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/5802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}