Background: In March 2015 a Working Group was established by Andrew Neophytou (CEO, Inner Eastern Local Learning & Employment Network) on behalf of the Inner Metro Youth and Community Partnership (IMCYP). This Working Group was formed to discuss and consider actions around youth transitions and pathways, as a response to worrying levels of youth disengagement...

Amid a steady rise in the overall unemployment rate, Australia’s youth continue to bear the brunt. This snapshot, using ABS data, shows that youth unemployment has remained much higher than the overall unemployment rate and the probability of finding a job has not improved since the global financial crisis. However preliminary analysis suggests that the...

This report examines the employment and welfare system in relation to young people with mental illness and education and employment. It makes a number of recommendations which the authors hope will allow people at the outset of a mental illness to not lose their dreams of the future.

This edition of the bi-annual report explores the transition of young people from schools and training institutions into the labour market, a phase marking a critical period in the life cycle.

The idea that unemployment is the principal cause of poverty among those of workforce age has been a central finding of poverty research. Peter Saunders examines the links that exist between employment, unemployment, joblessness and poverty against the background of the growing diversity of labour market trends.