UNEMPLOYMENT

Prevalent Unemployment in Youth

Youth Unemployment

Introduction

The number of unemployed UK is at its highest in seventeen years, a record which immediately revived calls for a relaxation of government austerity plan whose effects on the economy and employment are amplified by the crisis in the euro area (Willis, 2006, pp. 250).

According to official statistics, the unemployment rate rose to 8.1% in late August, against 7.9% in late July. Some 2.6 million Britons are now registered as unemployed, a figure not seen since October 1994, while growth of the country is virtually at a standstill (Willis, 2006, pp. 250).

Youth unemployment, an indicator followed particularly closely since the riots of August, is exploding: nearly a million of them are looking for a job, or 21.3% British 16 to 24 years who are in the labor market. This is an absolute record since the beginning of the compilation of statistics concerning them (Willis, 2006, pp. 250).

The number of officials, it has shrunk by more than 110,000 during the summer because of budget cuts have severely affected municipalities. Now the private sector failed to offset these losses, contrary to the hopes of the Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.

Rationale

This study highlights many issues related to unemployment in the baby boomers generation in the United Kingdom and gives a broad analysis of the problems and challenges faced by the baby boomer generation. In recent years the financial conditions, challenges and unemployment faced by the baby boomers and the consequential impact of these factors on the overall economy (David, et al., pp. 109).

The number of unemployed citizens in the UK is at its highest in 17 years, a record which immediately revived calls for a relaxation of government austerity plan whose effects on the economy and employment are amplified by the crisis in the euro area (David, et al., pp. 100).

Research Question(s)

The central research question of a study tells the reader what the researcher is trying to learn from the study (Cresswell, 2007). In qualitative research, interrogatories such as “what” and “how” are generally used in posing the central question because they tend to generate responses that are unique to the individual experiences of the respondent.

This study was intended to explain unemployment in the baby boomer generation in the United Kingdom. Cresswell observed that because qualitative research is built from the “ground up” (p. 19) and is not “handed down entirely from a theory” (p. 19) that the research questions might requirement to change during the course of the study to understand the research problem. To fully explore this topic, the following questions were derived:

How the Baby Boomer generation is suffering from unemployment due to recessionary impact on the economy?

How the financial conditions of Baby Boomers are having a macro impact on the overall economy of the country?

How can the government counter the problem of unemployment for the Baby Boomer generation?

What will be the impact of increased employment in the Baby Boomers generation?

How can the Baby Boomers contribute to the sinking economy of UK?

What are the issues prevailing in the ...