The transformation of youth labour markets in the UK
Bob Coles
- This article examines how the relationship between young people and the labour market has changed fundamentally over the past 25 years.
It starts with an examination of what is meant by labour markets, and how different types of relationships to them developed during periods of high levels of unemployment. This was influenced by, first, the growth of youth training and second, by a growth in post-16 and post-18 education. For the majority of young people the route into secure and settled employment is complex, messy, risky and, above all, long. For others it involves cycles of "poor work" and periods of unemployment.
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