Increase In Youth Unemployment

NEET

There were 857,000 young people (aged 16 to 24) in the UK who were not in education, employment or training (NEET), an increase of 14,000 from April to June 2016 and up 3,000 from a year earlier.

The percentage of all young people in the UK who were NEET was 11.9%, up 0.2 percentage points from April to June 2016 and up 0.2 percentage points from a year earlier

Wages of young people have declined:

Graph courtesy of the Institute of Fiscal Sudies (IFS)