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What Work Disappeared? COVID-19 and Labour Market Outcomes for the Under 25s
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audio
Categories Via RSS |
Education
Higher Education
Publication Date |
Mar 03, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:09:30
Contributor(s): Erica Thompson | Has the COVID-19 pandemic led to worse career prospects for young people? Research has shown a widening gap in the likelihood of young people being in employment, particularly in banking, finance and insurance, and public administration, education and health. Teresa Almeida and Ganga Shreedhar discuss the need for more inclusive labour market policies to create opportunities for younger workers to counter the adverse, long-term impacts of COVID-19. Meet our speakers Teresa Almeida is a Research Officer in Behavioural Science at The Inclusion Initiative (TII). She holds an MSc in Behavioural Science from the London School of Economics. Her research is focused on inclusion, with particular interest in understanding how individual differences and contextual factors impact labour market outcomes. Ganga Shreedhar (@geeshree) is Assistant Professor in Behavioural Sciences at the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, and an Affiliate at the Department of Geography ad Environment, The Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, and the Inclusion Initiative. She is an applied behavioural and experimental economist studying how to change human behaviour in ways that simultaneously benefit people and the planet by designing and analysing interventions that help understand consumer and citizen beliefs, preferences and behaviours. This film is part of the 'Festival Shorts' series, 10-minute talks by LSE experts released during Festival week Keywords: Shaping the Post-COVID World, labour market, youth unemployment, education, equity, The Inclusion Initiative, work, workforce, economy.

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