Young people on the margins: In need of more choices and more chances in twenty‐first century Scotland

Finlay, Ian; Sheridan, Mark A.; McKay, Jane; Nudzor, Hope Pius

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“…As mentioned above, there is an increasing focus on the NEET indicator and a rapidly growing state of research (Barham et al 2009;Dietrich 2013 andDietrich et al 2015;Dietrich and Möller 2016;Eurofound 2011;EC 2011a, b;Finlay et al 2010;Maguire 2013Maguire , 2015OECD 2014;O'Reilly et al 2015). The advantage of this indicator is that, unlike the youth unemployment rate according to the ILO labour-force-concept (LFC) (Statistik Austria 2010), it also includes young people who are out of the labour force, are not actively searching for a job or who are not available for work within the next two weeks.…”

Section: Youth Unemployment and The Neet Labour Market Indicatormentioning

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“…The only precondition for being categorised as NEET is that the person is not employed, in education or in training. At the same time, the broad definition of the NEET indicator has evoked criticism (see, inter alia, Finlay et al 2010;Furlong 2006Furlong , 2007Tamesberger and Bacher 2014;Yates and Payne 2006). The NEET group is characterised by high heterogeneity because the indicator groups together young people with very different problems and needs.…”

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“…Policy makers and researchers in the area of labour market and education are increasingly focusing on the youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) indicator as a supplement to the youth unemployment rate (see, inter alia, Barham et al 2009;Dietrich 2013;Eurofound 2011;EC 2011a, b;Finlay et al 2010;OECD 2014). This indicator measures the share of young adults who are not in employment, education or training against the whole population aged between 15 and 24.…”

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Small differences matter: how regional distinctions in educational and labour market policy account for heterogeneity in NEET rates

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J Labour Market Res

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Labour market and education policy makers and researchers are increasingly focusing on the NEET indicator as a supplement to the youth unemployment rate. Analyses of factors influencing NEET have concentrated primarily on individual characteristics such as gender and migration background on one hand, and on macro-level factors of nations such as economic growth and minimum wage regulations on the other. However, nations are not homogenous, especially when a country is divided into several federal states, as is the case with Austria. This article aims to analyse regional differences within Austria. In order to explain the differences, we define a multilevel model that contains four contextual factors: the importance of upper secondary education; the importance of dual education; vacant jobs; and expenditures for active labour market policy. Because the institutional level addresses different age groups, the analysis was split into two age groups: 15-19 and 20-24 years. The results have shown that, besides the social structure of the population, contextual factors like the upper secondary education, the dual education, vacant jobs, and expenditures for active labour market policy are also relevant for explaining regional differences in the NEET rates. But one main insight was that the impact of the contextual factors varies between different social groups.© The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

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Section: Youth Unemployment and The Neet Labour Market Indicatormentioning

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Section: Youth Unemployment and The Neet Labour Market Indicatormentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…Some authors go a step further and highlight the value of these methods in involving socially excluded groups and empowering the more disadvantaged, giving them choices in relation to the subject matter and research design that the traditional role of interview or questionnaire respondents cannot give, and as useful tools when participants have communication difficulties (Finlay, Sheridan, McKay & Nudzor, 2010;Packard, 2008).…”

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Advancing towards inclusive social research: visual methods as opportunities for people with severe mental illness to participate in research

Noell

Díaz

Suñé

2013

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

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This article explores the possibilities offered by visual methods in the move towards inclusive research, reviewing some methodological implications of said research and reflecting on the potential of visual methods to meet these methodological requirements. A study into the impact of work on social inclusion and the social relationships of people suffering from severe mental illness serves to illustrate the use of visual methods such as photo elicitation and graphic elicitation in the context of in-depth interviews with the aim of improving the aforementioned target group's participation in research, participation understood as one of the basic elements of inclusive approaches. On the basis of this study, we reflect on the potential of visual methods to improve the inclusive approach to research and conclude that these methods are open and flexible in awarding participants a voice, allowing people with severe mental illness to express their needs, and therefore adding value to said approach.

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“…Because these media could be shaped by them, there was a strong willingness to participate and a great deal of valuable data was produced over only three days. Data from the young people is the subject of a separate paper (Finlay et al 2010). …”

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Rapid response research: using creative arts methods to research the lives of disengaged young people

Finlay

Sheridan

Coburn

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Research in Post-Compulsory Education

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In Scotland, as in other legislations, the government and its agencies commission educational research to inform policy and practice development. This provides opportunities for academic researchers, who are under pressure to engage in funded research, to carry their interests forward with some assurance of social usefulness and impact. Many educational researchers have a commitment not just to explore and explain processes around the organisation of learning, but also to change current practices for the benefit of groups who are not getting the most out of their educational experiences. There are, though, costs involved in this kind of research. Often very tight timeframes are imposed by the funders. There may also be constraints on publication of outputs. This paper provides one case study of undertaking policy-facing research whilst attempting to maintain integrity and quality.Hamish's story Hamish produced a collage. He pointed to a window in an image of a well-known city school. 'That's my house master's room', he said to one of the researchers, then telling her of the time he had been detained over lunch to write a 'punnie', local slang for a punishment exercise. His request to go to the toilet was refused so he kept repeating it. According to Hamish, the house master lost his temper, picked up a chair and advanced towards Hamish shouting, 'You're a complete arsehole. You'll never make anything of yourself.' Hamish ran out of the room to tell another teacher of the experience but was suspended from school.Elsewhere on the collage was a clip-art image of a certificate. When asked about this, he said his grandmother, with whom he lived, called him downstairs and said there was a big, brown envelope for him. On opening it he discovered a certificate indicating that he had been given an Outstanding Young Scot Award for his work mentoring younger boys. Introduction and contextDeep engagement with the participants in the research setting is a core commitment of qualitative research: it is often recommended that researchers engage until a point

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Young people on the margins: In need of more choices and more chances in twenty‐first century Scotland

Cited by 51 publications

References 14 publications

Small differences matter: how regional distinctions in educational and labour market policy account for heterogeneity in NEET rates

Small differences matter: how regional distinctions in educational and labour market policy account for heterogeneity in NEET rates

Advancing towards inclusive social research: visual methods as opportunities for people with severe mental illness to participate in research

Rapid response research: using creative arts methods to research the lives of disengaged young people

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