Nine No future to risk? The impact of economic crises and austerity on young people at the margins of European employment and welfare settings
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Marion Ellison
Abstract
Chapter Nine concerns the challenging times within which young people’s employment trajectories are currently set. This chapter provides an examination of youth labour markets, drawing on developments in a range of European countries distinguished by their variety of capitalism. Proponents often frame austerity measures as being in the best long-term interests of young people, freeing them from the debt burden accumulated by their profligate and state-dependent forebears. However, the evidence presented in this chapter amply demonstrates that already disadvantaged young people are paying a heavy social cost now for a future where their security is likely to have suffered lasting and cumulative damage in terms of employment prospects and social mobility. The chapter concludes with some discussion of the differentiated effects of social investment strategies in youth employment, depending on their location within an austerity framework or within the recognition of both public and corporate responsibility for securing societal risk.
Abstract
Chapter Nine concerns the challenging times within which young people’s employment trajectories are currently set. This chapter provides an examination of youth labour markets, drawing on developments in a range of European countries distinguished by their variety of capitalism. Proponents often frame austerity measures as being in the best long-term interests of young people, freeing them from the debt burden accumulated by their profligate and state-dependent forebears. However, the evidence presented in this chapter amply demonstrates that already disadvantaged young people are paying a heavy social cost now for a future where their security is likely to have suffered lasting and cumulative damage in terms of employment prospects and social mobility. The chapter concludes with some discussion of the differentiated effects of social investment strategies in youth employment, depending on their location within an austerity framework or within the recognition of both public and corporate responsibility for securing societal risk.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures and tables v
- Notes on contributors vii
- Introduction 1
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The British welfare state
- Economic crisis, work–life balance and class 11
- Towards a fairer pension system for women? Assessing the impact of recent pension changes on women 29
- Warehouse, marketise, shelter, juridify: on the political economy and governance of extending school participation in England 47
- The political economy of taxation in the 21st-century UK 65
- Occupational and fiscal welfare in times of crisis 85
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The Social Policy Association Conference 2013
- Better to satisfy the coroner than the auditor: social policy delivery in challenging times 103
- Social Impact Bonds: shifting the boundaries of citizenship 119
- Creating a legacy of long-term indebtedness: the toxic impact of payday loans in Wolverhampton 137
- No future to risk? The impact of economic crises and austerity on young people at the margins of European employment and welfare settings 155
- Aristotle on the front line 181
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Towards integrated services? The integration of social policies and other policy domains
- Integration of social and labour market policy institutions: towards more control and responsiveness? 201
- Decentralised integration of social policy domains 221
- Rescaling inequality? Welfare reform and local variation in social assistance payments 239
- The competition–collaboration dilemma: the perverse effects of mixed service integration policy approaches in Queensland 259
- Developing integration of health and social care in England 279
- Index 295
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures and tables v
- Notes on contributors vii
- Introduction 1
-
The British welfare state
- Economic crisis, work–life balance and class 11
- Towards a fairer pension system for women? Assessing the impact of recent pension changes on women 29
- Warehouse, marketise, shelter, juridify: on the political economy and governance of extending school participation in England 47
- The political economy of taxation in the 21st-century UK 65
- Occupational and fiscal welfare in times of crisis 85
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The Social Policy Association Conference 2013
- Better to satisfy the coroner than the auditor: social policy delivery in challenging times 103
- Social Impact Bonds: shifting the boundaries of citizenship 119
- Creating a legacy of long-term indebtedness: the toxic impact of payday loans in Wolverhampton 137
- No future to risk? The impact of economic crises and austerity on young people at the margins of European employment and welfare settings 155
- Aristotle on the front line 181
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Towards integrated services? The integration of social policies and other policy domains
- Integration of social and labour market policy institutions: towards more control and responsiveness? 201
- Decentralised integration of social policy domains 221
- Rescaling inequality? Welfare reform and local variation in social assistance payments 239
- The competition–collaboration dilemma: the perverse effects of mixed service integration policy approaches in Queensland 259
- Developing integration of health and social care in England 279
- Index 295
