This guide provides a brief overview of the youth unemployment data available for small geographic areas.

How often need we re-discover the power of education and training in addressing youth unemployment and disengagement?

This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the Tasmanian Jobs Programme (TJP) pilot wage subsidy trial in helping job seekers unemployed for six months or more achieve sustained employment and reduce welfare dependency. The evaluation used a mixed-methods framework, combining quantitative administrative data and labour force statistics with qualitative evidence from employer, employment provider and regional...

Increasingly, unemployment rates tell only part of the story of young people’s jobs challenge. Underemployment, at 18 per cent of the nation’s youth labour force, is the highest in the 40 years since the ABS count officially began. And unemployment – at 13.5 per cent for 15–24 year olds – has remained stubbornly high since...

The youth unemployment rate of 12.8% (trend rate) for October remains much higher than the rates before the global financial crisis – which were below 9% – according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The rate has climbed steadily from the year’s low of 12.2% in January 2016. More than 268,000 youth in the...