Introduction
It is known that individuals experience high waves of unemployment after any recession; however, youth tend to experience a bigger downfall in the unemployment category. Nevertheless, the issues of youth unemployment continues to attract a great deal of attention from the government, communities and the general public influenced by the reflections that the hindrance of the 2008 recession may have fallen on Canada’s youth, Ontario’s youth feeling it the most (Youth Unemployment in Canada: Challenging Conventional Thinking?, p. 32, 2012). Five years after Canada’s “Great Recession”, youth remain largely shut out of Ontario’s slow economic recovery and while the ‘help wanted’ signs have re-emerged, youth find it hard to successful
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The destruction of labour and skills that may occur due to unemployment is only part of a wide range of factors that impacts the quality of workforce opportunities between the employer and employee. Underemployment may negatively affect quality of labour, as it does not allow individuals to utilize the full range of skills possessed over time. While underemployment represents a significant issue for youth, it illustrates itself through both underutilization of skills and underutilization of labour; however, the challenge of underemployment is focused on youth in this report, it is not only unique to just youth, but is experienced by workers in all age …show more content…
However, it is in the hands of the youth to find the balance between their responsibility to actively seek the most effective solutions and fitting them to apply their skills and abilities in the labour market, to successfully find work. Solutions to gaining the much needed experience to work around the issues on youth unemployment are volunteering, short-term work engagements, working nationally or globally abroad, workshops, and many more.
Volunteer work/Internships
Volunteering and internships – both unpaid, and in some lucky situations, paid are ways Canada’s youth may get their foot in the door to gaining experiences, which exposes them to the real on the job skills in the field of their choice; “having something unpaid on your CV is very worth it because that’s the one thing you can do to counteract this scarring effect. Get some real-life experience even though you’re discouraged, even if it’s for free” (Poloz, 2014). Although unpaid work is a decision no youth wants to make, volunteering is an important key to fill the gaps between jobs on their resume as well as having skills that are up to
2011). Some research suggests that the recent prevalence of targeted youth work is further stigmatizing the young people involved (Scanlon et al 2011; Jenkinson 2013). It is the role of the youth worker to challenge these negative agreements, to help young people find their truth. Rogers (1980) and Ruiz (2012) describe a process where a person, e.g. youth worker, values the significance and worth of another person. Through this acceptance the young person will begin to adopt a similar attitude and they will experience a rise in self-worth. Thus, they create a new agreement, that they are worthy of being valued and cared for.
Even with school, "Generation Debt" are the backbone of the work society; however, they continue to struggle with loans and debt. Wal-Mart and McDonalds are the nation's top employers; the latter being the largest youth employer. The "youth class", as Kamenetz points out, is one of the reasons why the labor market has downgraded to a point where it can pander to the entry-level workers. And even those who are better-off fair no better. Many young people with bachelor's degrees join those who are underemployed, or even unemployed.
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.
Table 2 shows that the young adult’s unemployment rate (15.9%) is much higher than all labour force of both sex and 15 years over (8.5%) in Nov. 2009. Furthermore, young adult’s percentage of change unemployment (2.7%) is higher than compare group’s (-0.8%) from Oct. 2009 to Nov. 2009, which means young adult’s unemployment is still increasing while other groups’ unemployment began drop currently. Young adults are more likely to lose their jobs compared to others because of their limited work experiences.
According to the cur-rent Youth Act of Finland (27.1.2006/72), youth work should aim at “supporting young people’s growth and independence, promoting young people’s active citizenship and empowerment, and improving their growth and living conditions”. The central values for the youth work are communality, solidarity, equity and equality, multiculturalism and internationality, healthy life styles and respect of life and the environment. This in turn helps young people develop holistically, personally, socially, and educationally. This is similar also in UK were youth work is designed for the purpose of aiding and enhancing the personal and social development of young persons through their voluntary participa-tion, and which complements their formal, academic, or vocational education and train-ing; and also provided primarily by local authorities and voluntary youth work
As one young person was heard to remark, “You can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t get experience without a job.” That dilemma can be overcome, however, by starting work early in life and by accepting simpler jobs that have no minimum age limit and do not require experience.
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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).
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Between the years 2000-2013, the percent of unemployment for college graduates with a bachelor degree was better than their non-graduate counter parts. As a matter of fact, the level of unemployment is lower for all age groups with college degrees vs. non degree holders. Nevertheless, the percent of 20-24 year olds that are unemployed is higher than that of their 25-to 34 year old equals (U.S. Department
Employability has been defined as “the capability to gain initial employment, maintain employment and obtain new employment if required” (McQuaid and Lindsay, 2005; Hillage and Pollard, 1998). Although, the concept has been widely defined and generally accepted by researchers, there is still confusion as to how an individual tends to develop employment capacity in particular. Many researches have been conducted to identify the need to acquire and to find ways through which the capacity could be developed. The transition of the students from education to work has to be smooth to be more effective and benefit both the student as well as the general society.
Unemployment has always been something that Americans have worried about since the great depression in which one in every four people was unemployed. High unemployment has an impact on every one even those whom are still currently employed. For example if the unemployment rate is particular high then even those with jobs get worried. Unemployment is also separated in to distinct categories base on which group is the focus of the study. The categories can be by race, age or location, for example the unemployment rate of those between the age of sixty and sixty-five could be compared those between the ages of thirty and thirty-five. These categories allow economist to see which groups are the best and which groups are worst off. One group particularly bad off is the age group referred to as teenagers. This paper is going to focus on how teenage unemployment affects the economy and what possible solutions there are.
There are, in some cases, firms that employ young and inexperienced workers, as mentioned before they are usually known as "youth friendly industries". Industries such as McDonalds, Coles/Myer, Safeway/Woolworths and KFC just to name a few, are the leading retail and takeaway outlets employing youth. Not only do they employ them but they provide them with the essential training to perform their duties with maximum efficiency. Some people see working as an obstacle towards school and homework and others don't want to work for ridiculously low pay. In conjunction with a high youth unemployment rate the government has introduced schemes to counteract this problem and to keep the youth population in school and out of the workforce.
Youth unemployment is a global problem facing both developed and developing economies. The United Nations define youth unemployment as individuals between the age of 15 and 24 years not employed and actively seeking employment. Statistics only consider youths who have attained the required age of employment who are willing and able to work but without jobs. Unemployment rates raise concerns in all economies. However, the rate and trends vary from one country to another irrespective of the country’s development status. For instance, in Cuba, Sierra Leone and Germany, youth unemployment rates were below 10% as per the year (Petersen & Mortimer, 2011). Sierra Leone is a developing country while Germany is a developed country yet their youth unemployment rates are comparable. On the other hand, youth unemployment rates in South Africa, Armenia and Spain were above 50% as per the year 2010 (Petersen & Mortimer, 2011). In most countries, youth unemployment rate is more than double as compared to an unemployment rate in people above the age of 24 years. Canada is not an exemption as the youth unemployment rate is raising major concerns. In the recent years, issues of youth unemployment have dominated political debates and social forums. More and more youths are leaving institutions of higher learning to end up being jobless. A considerable proportion of the youths are doing jobs that are below their level of educations. Organizations are raising standards in jobs where jobs previously performed by high school leavers are being given to diploma and degree holders. Since 1966, general unemployment rate has averaged at 7.75%. As per April this year, the unemployment rate among the youths was 14.5%, w...
Youth are not only the leaders of tomorrow, but also the partners of today. Young people are social actors of change and progress. They are a crucial segment of a nation’s development. Their contribution, therefore, is highly needed.