University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities 6-2008 Youth Unemployment in the Illawarra: An Investigation into the Problems Facing Young Jobseekers in our Region Simon Promfret IRIS Brad Braithwaite IRIS Scott Burrows IRIS,
[email protected] Natalie Viselli IRIS Alex Kerr IRIS Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Law Commons Recommended Citation Promfret, Simon; Braithwaite, Brad; Burrows, Scott; Viselli, Natalie; and Kerr, Alex, "Youth Unemployment in the Illawarra: An Investigation into the Problems Facing Young Jobseekers in our Region" (2008). Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers. 954. https://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers/954 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library:
[email protected] Youth Unemployment in the Illawarra: An Investigation into the Problems Facing Young Jobseekers in our Region Abstract Unemployment, and in particular youth unemployment, is one of the most significant economic and social issues facing the Illawarra region. Whilst the officialouth y unemployment statistics can be debated from one month to the next, what is clear is that for at least the past two decades our region‟s young people have experienced a consistently higher rate of unemployment than most of their peers living elsewhere in Australia. The study upon which this report is based has sought to explore the reasons why the Illawarra region has a consistently higher youth unemployment rate than other places throughout the nation.