NEET gap among Austrian migrants

An Austrian study found 27% of first-generation migrant young people in Austria were not in employment, education or training, compared with 13% of second-generation young people.

Der Standard

Young migrants far more often unemployed or without training

Youth from first-generation migrant backgrounds are significantly more likely to be unemployed or without training. A study shows large differences by origin and gender

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Die Presse

Young, migrant—and unemployed

27 percent of youths from the first generation of migrants were not in work, training or school, and 13 percent from the second generation. What can be done to bring them back into the system?

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The Guardian

How Labour could solve the youth jobs crisis | Letters

Readers respond to an editorial on creating opportunities for today’s young people to build future careers Your youth unemployment editorial ( 18 September ) sees the crisis clearly, but reaches for the wrong tools. Placements, apprenticeships and work coaches cannot conjure jobs that do not exist. We need macro solutions to macro problems. Youth unemployment is not a crisis of skills or geography. It is insufficient government deficit spending. There is not enough money circulating to employ everyone who wants to work and that is a policy choice, not an accident. Macroeconomists divide the economy into three sectors: government, households and businesses, and the rest of the world. One sector’s spending is another sector’s income. Put simply, government spending is income for the non-government sectors. Continue reading. . .

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Reposted by Gérard Govers

Scholar power: 5%

Story's scientific field profile

Sociology 35%, Economics 30%, Education 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Gérard Govers	-	97	-

by Aoife O’Donoghue Reposted by Colin Murray

16%

Scholar power: 16.0%

Story's scientific field profile

Sociology 35%, Economics 30%, Education 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Aoife O’Donoghue	10%	10	9.5%
🎓 Colin Murray	13%	25	6.5%
Total			16.0%

Formula for scholar power: 3 × author's field match × √author's h-index + sum of each reposter's field match × √reposter's h-index

Ranking score inputs

Relevance

Recency

Reposts

Scholar power

45.0%

28.8 h

16.0%

Ranking score

0.008

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

Aoife O'Donoghue

@aoifemod.bsky.social

Really important report from colleagues @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social 👇

The education selection process in #NorthernIreland is all about those with money keeping it that way - hurrah for the middle classes
while 10-11 years olds are stressed out of their minds!

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