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High youth unemployment in Britain: what the numbers actually show

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Last week this column noted that the current and preceding waves of AI adoption have not, so far, worsened the ratio of youth to adult unemployment. It also observed that Britain's youth-to-adult unemployment ratio has in fact been drifting upward for forty years. Last week, too, Alan Milburn published a report finding that the number of young people classified as NEET — not in education, employment or training — has surpassed one million.

KC Law (Economist)

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KC Law (Economist)

Law Ka Chung is a Hong Kong economist and financial columnist.

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