Research objectives
Our research objectives
To generate insights that will assist policymakers and other stakeholders concerned with improving the inclusion and employment trajectories of younger workers in the UK.
To understand how the labour market experiences of people when they are young affect their longer-term labour market experiences.
To extend analysis of labour market transition to the 40-50% of young people are 'in the middle' (neither NEET nor HE educated) and who have tended to be overlooked in research on transitions.
To examine transitions between unemployed and employment, between different jobs, and between jobs that differ in quality.
To analyse barriers to positive transitions, for example to higher quality jobs, and the conditions that enable positive transitions to be made.
To evaluate the consequences of younger workers' labour market transitions for their physical and mental health and wellbeing at different stages of the life course.
To extend research on the relationship between labour market transitions and families by examining the impact the younger workers' transitions have on other family members.
To respond to recent calls for localised studies (impetus 2019) by extending analysis of the social dynamics of transitions to incorporate local economic conditions and infrastructure.
To investigate the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic for the transitions of younger people, the extent to which the pandemic has reinforced pre-existing segmentation and sources of disadvantage and the consequences for the physical and mental health of younger workers.
To integrate evidence, concepts and theories from different social science disciplines so as to improve understanding of the labour market transitions of younger workers and their consequences.