Breaking the Cycle: Understanding Precarity in Australia’s Youth Workforce. The project aims to identify ‘necessary’ conditions that predispose youth to insecure, poorly paid and regulated, or precari

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Breaking the Cycle: Understanding Precarity in Australia’s Youth Workforce. The project aims to identify ‘necessary’ conditions that predispose youth to insecure, poorly paid and regulated, or precarious, work and widening precarity (e.g., eroded development, welfare reliance, low productivity) by taking a life history approach using archival longitudinal data supported by original data triangulated across young workers, their families, and employers. It expects to generate novel evidence on the cycle from preexisting precarity to precarious work to widening precarity. Expected outcomes include workplace change recommendations to break the cycle and better support young workers. This should yield significant benefits by reducing the societal and economic costs (estimated $billions) of a scarred youth precariat. . Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 5201 - Applied and Developmental Psychology. Lead: Prof Michelle Hood