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The youth unemployment rate in the UK is around 3 times worse than the rate for adults. Even those in work are suffering, as working from home means they are often stuck in small rooms with little or no input from more experienced colleagues.
Young people have been hit hard. Their education disrupted at school and university. They have also been badly hit in the employment market.
Three months into the pandemic, one-third of employees aged 18-24 excluding students lost their jobs or were furloughed, according to the Resolution Foundation,compared with one in six prime-age adults.
A World Problem - an international comparison
However bad it is here in the UK, by international standards we are not doing anything like as badly as some other countries. Even the EU average is higher than ours. Not that is any consolation to those who have lost their job.
Youth Unemployment Rates
April-June 2020
Data Source: House of Commons Library
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn05871/
Vulnerable Sectors
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, under-25s were two and a half times more likely than their older peers to work in sectors that were shut down by social distancing requirements, such as hospitality and events. These workers make up a large proportion of the estimated 3m people now on furlough, at high risk of unemployment when the scheme ends at the end of this month.
What's more, young people are feeling more bored and lonely during the coronavirus pandemic than those aged 60 and over, Government data has shown.
Three quarters (76 per cent) of people aged 16 to 29 said their well-being had been negatively affected by the outbreak, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. A further 42 per cent said the lockdown was making their mental health worse.
Published Oct 19th 2020
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