Research has a significant role to play in supporting the development of youth policies that are relevant and effective. This presentation draws on analyses of Australian data and on comparisons of Australian and Canadian data. It focuses on the lives of generation x, who were establishing themselves as young adults in the 1990s.
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Research has a significant role to play in supporting the development of youth policies that are relevant and effective. This presentation draws on analyses of Australian data and on comparisons of Australian and Canadian data. It focuses on the lives of generation x, who were establishing themselves as young adults in the 1990s.
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Research has a significant role to play in supporting the development of youth policies that are relevant and effective. This presentation draws on analyses of Australian data and on comparisons of Australian and Canadian data. It focuses on the lives of generation x, who were establishing themselves as young adults in the 1990s.
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Plenary Session “From Theory to Practice” 23 September 2009
Title: Identifying gaps and misalignments in youth policy
Presenter: Johanna Wyn
Abstract
Research has a significant role to play in supporting the development of youth
policies that are relevant and effective. In some areas of policy, young people are especially affected by changing social and economic conditions (for example, changes in labour markets), which create a particular challenge for policy. In other areas (such as education) institutional processes often lag behind social change and this is also a challenge for policy. This presentation draws on analyses of Australian data and on comparisons of Australian and Canadian data to reflect on the intended and unintended ways in which policies impact on young people’s lives. It focuses on the lives of Generation X, who were establishing themselves as young adults in the 1990s. This generation bore the brunt of education and labour market policies, in both Australia and Canada that were intended to ensure a supply of labour to meet the change from industrially-based economies to knowledge and service economies in a globally competitive marketplace. It highlights the importance of recognising the impact of changing social conditions on the possibilities and constrains that young people face, and on the need for greater collaboration between policy-makers and researchers in responding to young people’s needs.