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Global issues of youth employment and underemployment

31st 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
• f young people

– Women – Minorities

• 3. Education

– Separation education for work & labour market trends. – Underemployment

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Why work matters to young people?

Economic impact

Accumulative impact of lost wages Accumulative impact loss saving & pension provisions

Social-Psychological impact More complex & difficult to navigate

Transition to work part of becoming an adult Consequences for well-being

Family & societal consequences

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Individual Psychological Impact

• Failure to transition into

adulthood

• Underemployment
• Economic scarring
• Reduced well-being
• Dissatisfaction,

disaffection, disengagement

• Radicalisation
• Failure to integrate into

society

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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

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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

• rganizations.
• 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

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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.

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Decline of youth education provisions

• Restructuring of work = organizations

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 – Erodes self-efficacy & skill base

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Failed by education

• National education and employment

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

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Hoarding of social capital

Response to structural decline

• f opportunities for young

Social networks exploited by those who can for their yng ple Exacerbating societal inequalities

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Consequences ……

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Thank you & any questions… Rosalind.Searle@Glasgow.ac.uk Twitter: @profsearle