NEET, unemployed, inactive or unknown – why does it matter?

Maguire, Sue

doi:10.1080/00131881.2015.1030850

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“…Despite its limitations, the NEET indicator can be a useful tool in enhancing understanding of young people's vulnerabilities in terms of labour market participation and social inclusion, in particular if the differentiation of different subgroups is clearly indicated. Central to the issue of youth unemployment and detachment from the labour market are the potential long-term damaging effects, described as 'scarring' effects (Arulampalam, 2001), or as sending a negative 'signal' to prospective employers undermining prospects of secure employment in the mainstream economy (Eurofound, 2017) with the potential irrevocable risk of permanent social exclusion to follow (Maguire, 2015;Blossfeld, 2017;Groh-Samberg and Wise, 2017). Some of the young people classified as having NEET status may thus be moving along a 'trajectory of disadvantage' (Bynner and Parsons 2002) that the GR reinforced.…”

Section: Not In Education Employment or Training (Neet)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Young people and the Great Recession: Variations in the school-to-work transition in Europe and the United States

Schoon¹,

Bynner²

2019

Longitudinal and Life Course Studies

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This paper reviews evidence on young people in Europe and the US making the transition from school-to-work before and after the 2008 Great Recession. Taking a macro-level perspective, similarities and differences in education and employment experiences across different European countries are described, considering the role of different institutional support systems in 'scaffolding' young people's transitions to independence. It is argued that the 2008 financial crisis brought with it reduced employment opportunities for young people and accelerated pre-existing trends towards prolonged education participation and precarious employment. There are, however, considerable variations across different countries, highlighting the role of social institutions in supporting young people during the school-to-work transition. Transition systems that created bridges between education and employment are associated with lower national levels of youth unemployment, while young people coming of age in less-protective transition regimes suffered highest levels of youth unemployment, high levels of temporary employment and not being in education, employment or training (NEET).

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Section: Not In Education Employment or Training (Neet)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Young people and the Great Recession: Variations in the school-to-work transition in Europe and the United States

Schoon¹,

Bynner²

2019

Longitudinal and Life Course Studies

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“…In the 1990s inactive young people, neither in education nor in training or employment, were described in career service records using the terms "status zero" (Williamson 1997), "getting nowhere", and "zero register" (Bynner, Ferri, and Shepherd 1997). The term NEET was initially used to describe 16 and 17 year olds who were no longer eligible for unemployment benefit due to legislative changes (Maguire 2015). Since then, the scope of the term has broadened to encompass a wider group of young people.…”

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“…Even though young people in NEET status have been extensively studied in recent years (Bynner, Ferri, and Shepherd 1997, Furlong 2006, Maguire 2015, there has been very little research on the association between neighbourhood poverty and young people's trajectories. Evidence suggests that the population of NEETs tend to be concentrated in particular towns and cities (Crowley and Cominetti 2014) and that many young people who are NEET may have spent much of their childhood living in disadvantaged areas (Thompson, Russell, and Simmons 2014).…”

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Disadvantaged neighbourhoods and young people not in education, employment or training at the ages of 18 to 19 in England

Karyda

Jenkins

2018

Journal of Education and Work

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There is a growing interest among researchers in the impact of locality on young people who are inactive and not engaged in education, employment or training (NEETs). Previous research on this, however, is rather limited and does not account for a number of characteristics that mediate the effects of disadvantaged neighbourhoods on transition outcomes. This study investigates the effects of neighbourhood context on young people who experience NEET status at the ages 18 to 19 in one cohort born in 1989/90 in the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England-LSYPE. The analyses control for a wide range of factors which may affect NEET status. Drawing on previous sociological theories, we develop a theoretical framework that specifies four levels of influence on young people's development: individual, family, school and peer group characteristics. Potential pathways between neighbourhood context and individual outcomes are explored using a logistic regression model. We demonstrate that there is a higher probability for young people who live in high crime areas to become NEETs in comparison to those who live in less-deprived areas.

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“…As mentioned above, there is an increasing focus on the NEET indicator and a rapidly growing state of research (Barham et al 2009;Dietrich 2013 andDietrich et al 2015;Dietrich and Möller 2016;Eurofound 2011;EC 2011a, b;Finlay et al 2010;Maguire 2013Maguire , 2015OECD 2014;O'Reilly et al 2015). The advantage of this indicator is that, unlike the youth unemployment rate according to the ILO labour-force-concept (LFC) (Statistik Austria 2010), it also includes young people who are out of the labour force, are not actively searching for a job or who are not available for work within the next two weeks.…”

Section: Youth Unemployment and The Neet Labour Market Indicatormentioning

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Small differences matter: how regional distinctions in educational and labour market policy account for heterogeneity in NEET rates

Bacher

Koblbauer

Leitgöb

et al. 2017

J Labour Market Res

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Labour market and education policy makers and researchers are increasingly focusing on the NEET indicator as a supplement to the youth unemployment rate. Analyses of factors influencing NEET have concentrated primarily on individual characteristics such as gender and migration background on one hand, and on macro-level factors of nations such as economic growth and minimum wage regulations on the other. However, nations are not homogenous, especially when a country is divided into several federal states, as is the case with Austria. This article aims to analyse regional differences within Austria. In order to explain the differences, we define a multilevel model that contains four contextual factors: the importance of upper secondary education; the importance of dual education; vacant jobs; and expenditures for active labour market policy. Because the institutional level addresses different age groups, the analysis was split into two age groups: 15-19 and 20-24 years. The results have shown that, besides the social structure of the population, contextual factors like the upper secondary education, the dual education, vacant jobs, and expenditures for active labour market policy are also relevant for explaining regional differences in the NEET rates. But one main insight was that the impact of the contextual factors varies between different social groups.© The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

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NEET, unemployed, inactive or unknown – why does it matter?

Cited by 85 publications

References 6 publications

Young people and the Great Recession: Variations in the school-to-work transition in Europe and the United States

Young people and the Great Recession: Variations in the school-to-work transition in Europe and the United States

Disadvantaged neighbourhoods and young people not in education, employment or training at the ages of 18 to 19 in England

Small differences matter: how regional distinctions in educational and labour market policy account for heterogeneity in NEET rates

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