This report found that experience of working full-time early in the school-to-work transition has the most positive effect on youth labour market outcomes. In addition, early experience of unemployment has a 'scarring' effect on subsequent unemployment. The report, the latest in the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY), examines the labour market outcomes of a...

This is research report number 31 in the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) research program. Among the report's key findings is that many early school leavers progress well in the first few years after leaving school. Taken together, the results indicate that during the late teenage years school non-completers are not unequivocally 'worse off'...