youth unemployment
Young workers' joblessness
Youth unemployment is the condition of young people—typically those aged 15 to 24—being without work despite actively seeking it.
The term appears frequently in economic policy discussions, where high youth unemployment signals broader problems: Youth unemployment in the region has reached crisis levels.
Distinguished from general unemployment by its focus on those entering the workforce for the first time, often facing barriers like lack of experience or credentials.
- labor marketEmployment supply and demand
- job marketEmployment availability collectively
- recessionProlonged economic decline
- vocational trainingJob-skill education
- social exclusionDenial of societal participation
living at home · minimum wage laws · apprenticeships · gap year · soft skills · automation · career counseling · depression · underemployment · gig economy · identity crisis · self-worth · overqualification · zero-hour contracts · migration patterns · crime rates · demographic shifts · STEM education
- DjiboutiAfar Triangle, Independence Day
- youthchild, adolescents, kid, coming-of-age, teenagers
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- social issuesinequality, racism, poverty, illiteracy, homelessness
- workforceworkers, employees, labor force, worker, labor
- Youth Jobsteen workers, summer jobs, part-time jobs, first job, babysitters
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