Young people are a vast fundamental asset to the economy and to society. However, over the years, it has become and continues to become a global phenomenon, whereby, fears are increasing that a cohort of young people, are seemingly lost attributable to the impact of the recession from changes in the economy (Sissons and Jones 2012, 8). The International Labour Organization highlighted that young people worldwide continue to be hardest hit by recession. In addition, press reports have drawn attention to the growing number of young adults who are unemployed, and made predictions of a new ‘lost generation’, a phrase last heard in the 1980s (Allen 2010).
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), as cited in Allen’s article, around 620 million economically active 15 to 24-year-olds, 81 million were unemployed at the end of 2009, the highest number since records began in 1991, putting the global youth unemployment rate at 13%, up from 11.9% just before the global downturn in 2007. As a result, with the crisis of a lost generation, as young people withdrew from the labour market, the ILO predicted that youth unemployment would have increased to 13.1% before slipping back to 12.7% in 2011.
According to FutureLab Europe (2013), the lost generations, as they are generally called, consists of young individuals who are trapped in a limbo of unemployment or an endless cycle of education because of the lack of job opportunities (4). In fact, recent researches have shown that a great number of young people, particularly males, between the ages of 18-24 are not in education, employment or training, a category which is usually referred to NEET (MacDonald 2011; Statistics New Zealand 2011; FutureLab Europe 2013; Marsh, 2009...
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...ired a higher crime rate than any other districts in Trinidad. Moreover, East Port-of-Spain is listed as the most economically and socially deprived neighbourhoods in Trinidad (Janssen 2012, 13). As defined by Ryan et. al (2013) a crime hot spot is generally defined as an: area containing dense clusters of criminal incidents which may extend to an area adjacent to one where criminal activity is geographically concentrated and incidents occur on a frequent or relatively regular basis (20).
East Port of Spain is characterized by a youthful population. As shown in Figure 1. a census dated 2000 shows that approximately 46% of the population is below the age of thirty (30) years, with 23% under the age of 15 years. It also shows that approximately 78% of the male population is between the ages of 15-24 years (East Port-of-Spain Development Company Limited 2007, 10).
In the article, “A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much”, Catherine Rampell explains why older generations find millennials to be the laziest generation yet and provides facts that contrast the claim. The generations that came before millennials like Generation X and Baby Boomers have multiple reasons explaining why young people have became less productive over the years. Catherine Rampell provides information regarding how millennials are not as lazy as Generation X has made them out to be.
“A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much” written by Catherine Rampell is an informative article about today’s millennial generation after high school. It provides the reader with a deeper look into young people’s work ethic, or what some to think to be, lack-there-of. The author does a fantastic job using research, credible resources, and statistics to support her belief that Generation Y (children born in the 1980s and 1990s) is no less productive than previous generations. I will admit that before reading this piece, I was one of those who believed that Millennials were in fact the “coddled, disrespectful and narcissistic generation” (Rampell, 2011, para 3). After reading this article, my opinion has changed. It has touched on issues
There has been an increase in high paying jobs that require young people to have a higher education in developing countries that are enhancing and integrating to global economy. Technology is another factor that is becoming more prevalent in these under developed countries. It’s becoming less common for young people to go out and do agricultural work to support the family financially, as many parents rather support and make it easier for their children to go to school. These entire factors can eventually open up all the possibilities for more and more emerging adults to experience life and explore their independence, as countries become wealthier chances are that more young people can go to school and move in to a dorm and have a semi independent lifestyle until they reach adulthood. This can benefit our future generations to come and potentially increase the life expectancy and become achievable adults that live a longer and prosperous life. This will be a new evolution for the young people now and the young people to come, this means more educated people, which call change the way our jobs, economy, and development of our countries can be. More young people will explore their horizons and develop to be the best they can be instead of being forced to work a full time low paying job and hit a dead end. Perhaps one day the new
In Our Time and the Lost Generation Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time is a true representation of his "lost generation" for the simple reason that all generations are eventually lost as time goes by. Hemingway focuses on a generation he knows, his own. It becomes apparent throughout the novel that Hemingway is deconstructing the world without overly using vast amounts of description. All of the “messages" bring the reader to an understanding of a generation, the "lost generation" that appears to result from Hemingway's novel. Ernest Hemingway uses intense short stories to leave a feeling of awe and wonder in the reader of In Our Time.
In the country of Spain there are many beautiful cities and towns, each different from each other and all are unique. Barcelona stands out more than any other city in Spain, with art, history, and culture surrounding the city and the people who live there. Barcelona is very well populated, covered in history and secrets, all the while being surrounded with eccentric art and architecture. Times have changed, and Barcelona is gradually growing towards a better city, and a better environment.
Since the late 1970s, social science researchers, the media, private foundations, and policymakers have directed considerable attention to the labor market problems of young adults and their families. Most of this attention has focused on high school dropouts, the poor, minorities, and inner-city youth. But an equally troubling—and broader—problem has received comparatively less notice: the steep and sustained decline since 1973 in the real (inflation-adjusted) earnings of young men and women generally. Even adjusting for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, the labor market problems of young workers are disproportionately severe—they include higher than average unemployment and relatively low earnings when employed. This sustained drop in earnings has been especially dramatic for young adults with no postsecondary school education.
Introduction to the Problem and the proposal for a solution: According to Rick Miner, author of People without Jobs. Jobs without People, in 2010, with Canada’s aging population and rising “knowledge economy” the future of Canada’s labour market is facing a “projected shortfall in the availability of workers”(1) In other words, he forecasts that the emerging demand for a more highly skilled and educated workforce will not only project further growth in the looming “knowledge economy”, but adversely will leave many unskilled workers looking for jobs that stipulate conditions they cannot fulfill. In recognizing this difficulty, Miner urges youth to acknowledge the need for post-secondary education or training in hopes that they will be able
“Less than 1.4 million teens were employed full time in February, down from more than 4.1 million in June 1978, according to the Labor Department." (US News, Why Teens Are Getting Shut Out of the Workforce) Teens also are having to compete for college scholarships as the amount of people going to college is constantly increasing. In 1980, 12.1 million people were enrolling in college, in 2015, it is estimated that this number for enrollment is 20.24 million. (Statista, US College Enrollment and Projections in Public and Private Institutions) This generation is also being raised straight out of a recession, more families have struggled which could lead to fewer savings and even potentially tapping into their savings to stay afloat. Taking away from any money that could be used to assist their children in things like college, vehicles,
Compared to any other age groups, the young make up the highest unemployment rate, nearly as twice as the rate for entire labor force. In 2015, there was 13.5% of youth who were unemployed in Canada while the total unemployed percentage was approximately 6.9% (CIA, 2015). In Vietnam, the similar trend was witnessed with 6.8% of young people were seeking for a job, compare to 3.5% of all labor in the market (CIA, 2015). Furthermore, young Canadian males are likely to suffer from the economic downturn. The country recorded a higher unemployment rate among young males than their female partners, scoring 15% and 11.4% respectively (CIA, 2014). Nevertheless, Vietnam obtained a higher proportion of young unemployed females than males, with a gap of nearly 1.5% between those two (CIA, 2013). While the youth’s employment situation has aroused the public concerns, there is a difference in the unemployment according to gender among the youth between Canada and
In life there are many people, things, or places that we experience that have influenced our lives so unique and powerful there unlike any other. Some women experience such alteration with the birth of a new baby. While for another person this life alteration may be making partner at a law firm. Though everyone experiences life on a different level one thing is for certain, not everything in life is a good experience. Everything in life is balanced, and with every joy comes some form of heartache. For some people it takes an emotional toll so incoherent that it never fades. After World War I many men experienced the let down affiliated with the war, and discovered there fight for admiration and loyalty led to nothing more than a expulsion of lost values, thus leading to the “lost generation.”
Research has suggested that youth of today are taking longer to complete the transition into adulthood. Twenty-five years ago, youth had more of a traditional model of transition, whereas today, the transition seems somewhat fractured. Changes in education and the benefit system may be responsible for the altered state of transition in current youth, (Keep, 2011) which is an assumption that will be investigated further. Therefore, this essay will explore youth transition and will look at how the restructuring of policies and legislations have affected youth transition into adulthood. Additionally, there will be some insight into whether these changes are responsible for the deterioration of the traditional transition model.
Generation Z is determined to change the future and is at an advantage over all previous generations to do so. This group is those born between the years 1995 and 2012, whom are currently ages 4 to 21. Statistics show Gen Z is extremely mature for their age with the lowest levels of drug use, alcohol consumption, smoking, and teenage pregnancy in decades, as stated by JWTIntelligence. This demonstrates that they are future orientated. Generation Z is unified, diverse, realistic, and technologically advanced, making them the generation with the power to impact the world.
According to Braga (2005), a technique call hot spot policing has been shown to effectively reduce crime. By police focusing on specific locations, they can deter or stop crime from occurring. Braga (2005) reviewed five randomized controlled trials pertaining to hot spot policing. The results of the me... ... middle of paper ... ...
According to the Hellenic Statistical Authority the basic salary for newcomers in the labor market has been set by law at much lower than the existing basic salary and moreover the extremely high youth unemployment has set Greece in the position of the countries with the highest rates in the world (48% in March 2012, 62.9% in May 2013, 51,30% in November 2014, 50.10% in December 2015 and 45,70% in November 2016). Moreover, the 49.67% of 925 young people participating in a national research say that they are very stressed over their economic future and the 32.7% of them say that they are very stressed over their finance which impacts their personal and social life (Stergiou & Tsakiridou, 2012), (World Health Organization, 2011), (Mathers & Schofield, 1998). Most of the students believe that the economic crisis has influenced their ambitions and has created stress on their vocational settlement in a country that lacks in strategic plan to support vulnerable youth (Stergiou & Tsakiridou,
Datasets of retails, bars, schools, churches, and recreational areas were also used to determine the likelihood of a robbery to take place. For the crime data, since robberies were the focus, the robberies were highlighted and exported as points on the map with the rest of the crime data removed to only show robberies. For hotel data sets, first the addresses of all hotels were listed on a spreadsheet followed by each hotels’ coordinates within the city. Then the spreadsheet was added to the map as a data set and turned into a shapefile that appears on the map. The techniques used to establish the spatial relationship between hotels and robberies was through the spatial analysis tools. This would be done using Euclidean Distancing to determine the distance correlation on how far robberies occur just around hotels and beyond the path its’ occupants and employees take. It is then broken up into 5 classes with class 1 being in proximity to the hotels and class 5 being the