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The missing million: addressing the youth employment challenge

There are one million young people unemployed in the UK. The implications could be grave. For the individual, unemployment can have scarring effects on future employment prospects, wages and social development. For the UK, higher unemployment leads to lost economic productivity and higher welfare costs. But there is already a wealth of research on this subject. The question instead is how to solve it.

The missing million is a two-year, solutions-focused project with the aim of increasing the employment prospects of young people in the UK. To do this, the project will answer two key questions:

What measures can be taken now to address the problem of youth unemployment?
How can the UK move to a longer-term model with lower levels of youth unemployment?

In the first year we will produce a set of reports that will consider the growing structural unemployment problem, the employer's role, lessons from Germany and solutions at a local level, as well as a major conference, The Youth Unemployment Summit, to find solutions to these important issues.

Related Reports

The Skills Dilemma: Skills under-utilisation and low-wage work
This report tackles the missing side of the debate around skills in the UK by showing how the underuse of skills is resulting in lost productivity both for businesses and the economy as a whole.

Dr Paul Sissons
10 January 2012

Off the Map? The geography of NEETs
Launched as part of a research partnership with the Private Equity Foundation, this report examines NEET rates for 16 – 24 year olds across Great Britain.

Neil Lee and Jonathan Wright
01 November 2011

Cutting the Apron Strings? The clustering of young graduates and the role of the public sector
Young graduates in the North and the Midlands are now disproportionately employed in the public sector, which has serious implications for the government’s handling of cuts.

Jonathan Wright
15 February 2011

Related Events

Lost in Transition? The changing labour market and young people not in employment, education or training
This event will launch the latest report from The Work Foundation and Private Equity Foundation

Tue, 22 May 2012
16:00 - 18:00

Youth Unemployment: Short-term fixes and long-term needs
The Work Foundation is honoured to be joined by The Rt Hon David Miliband and Shaks Gosh, Chief Executive of the Private Equity Foundation, for the launch of the first report from our Missing Million research programme.

Thu, 10 May 2012
10:00 - 11:30

Employment Law Seminar - Age Discrimination: Managing older and younger workers
In this session we summarised the steps employers should take when engaging apprentices and identify the management issues that commonly arise and legal issues unique to apprentices with a view to demystifying this commonly misunderstood area of employment law.

Wed, 28 March 2012
09:00 - 12:00

Related Blogs

The danger of a low wage, low security job trap
Today’s job market figures contain plenty of good news. But for all these positive signs, there are a couple of doubts hanging over these numbers.

Andrew Sissons
16 May 2012

“If at first you don’t succeed, you don’t succeed”
It is easy to assume that youth unemployment is merely another sign of recession Britain. Yet at yesterday’s launch of the Missing Million research programme with David Miliband at The Work Foundation, each of the four speakers pointed to a very different premise.

Rhian Johns, Private Equity Foundation
11 May 2012

1980s-style deregulation of the labour market will not help growth or jobs
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill outlined in the Queen’s Speech includes some welcome labour market measures, such as support for more family friendly employment.

Ian Brinkley
09 May 2012

Related News

Job figures show return of business confidence but underemployment continues to rise
Commenting on today’s labour market statistics, Ian Brinkley said 'These are surprising but very welcome figures. Claims that further deregulation of the labour market is needed to stimulate job generation look to be unjustified.'

Ian Brinkley
16 May 2012

Fall in unemployment masking risk of ‘part-time recovery’
The slight drop in unemployment is an encouraging sign after many months of turmoil in the labour market.

Andrew Sissons
18 April 2012

Drop in full-time work suggests business confidence still low
There are very few signs of the job market picking up in the new year, despite hopes that the economy has turned a corner.

Andrew Sissons
14 March 2012