Global issues of youth employment and underemployment 31 st Oct 2019 Prof. Rosalind Searle PhD., MBA. FBPS, Chartered Psychol (occupational)
Tangible consequences Prof Rosalind Searle 31 Oct 2019
Global trends 1. Steady rise youth unemployment – Trend emerged prior to GFC Youth migration – 2. Further disadvantaged groups of young people – Women – Minorities 3. Education – Separation education for work & labour market trends. – Underemployment Prof Rosalind Searle 31 Oct 2019
Accumulative impact of lost wages Economic impact Accumulative impact loss saving & pension provisions Why work Transition to work part of becoming an adult Social-Psychological impact Consequences for well-being matters to young More complex & difficult people? to navigate Family & societal consequences Prof Rosalind Searle 31 Oct 2019
Individual Psychological Impact • Failure to transition into adulthood • Underemployment • Economic scarring • Reduced well-being • Dissatisfaction, disaffection, This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC disengagement • Radicalisation • Failure to integrate into society Prof Rosalind Searle 31 Oct 2019 This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC
Family & societal consequences Family anxiety about their young people Social unrest Trust at societal level Access into work • shapes subsequent life trajectories of individual citizens, • National level implications Prof Rosalind Searle 31 Oct 2019
Migration of young people • Develops personal adaptability, career adaptability – Vulnerability exploitation Emotional toll of separation from extended • families – Disrupts & breaks up families • Language difficulties and cultural adjustment – both job seekers and employing organizations. • Creates tensions in the host country – Competition for local resources Scarcity of opportunities for host country youth – Brain drain • – Reduced return on Gov investment in tertiary education Prof Rosalind Searle 31 Oct 2019
National level implications • Profound shortage key skills • Future talent for Innovation & development of economy • Tax and pension contributions Welfare and social care burden ageing • family members previously been looked after by own family. Prof Rosalind Searle 31 Oct 2019
Decline of youth education provisions • Restructuring of work = organizations This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC greater flexibility & deregulation • Dismantling lauded national youth work policies – Impoverishment quality & scale of skills & training, – Reduction in socialisation such training created – Underemployment of capable young people • Reduced job satisfaction & motivation to search for appropriate work This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY – Erodes self-efficacy & skill base Prof Rosalind Searle 31 Oct 2019
Failed by education • National education and employment This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY policy fail to promote such qualities. • Inattention equality of access – minorities & women to education • Education – holding pen rather than dev future talent & skills for work This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA Prof Rosalind Searle 31 Oct 2019
Response to structural decline of opportunities for young Hoarding of Social networks exploited by those who can for their yng ple social capital Exacerbating societal inequalities Prof Rosalind Searle 31 Oct 2019
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC Consequences …… Prof Rosalind Searle 31 Oct 2019
Thank you & any questions… Rosalind.Searle@Glasgow.ac.uk Twitter: @profsearle #UofGWorldChangers @UofGlasgow
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