Respondents for this study ranged in age from 12 to 18 years. Eighteen-year-olds are conventionally not considered as children, having reached the age of majority under the laws of most countries. However, we included 18-year-olds in our sample because we suspected significant bias in ...
CAMERON WAGES WAR ON GANGS ; VOW TO FIX 120,000 PROBLEM FAMILIESEND THE HUMAN RIGHTS CULTURECITIZEN SERVICE FOR 16-YEAR-OLDSCameron Pledges to Mend Britain... DAVID CAMERON today declared "all-out war" on gangs and promised to fix Britain's broken society by turning around 120,000 problem...
year-olds and also puts the goal of a pounds 5 adult rate within reach.The new hourly rate for 16-17-year-olds will be pounds 3 from October, bringing the UK into line with other leading industrialised countries, which have a minimum wage for young employees.The rate for 18 to 21-...
A lower national minimum wage for 18- to 21-year-olds and the exclusion of all workers under 18 prompted fears of a distortion in the British labour market and an undermining of training initiatives. Empirical data collected from employe... RE Lucas,M Langlois - 《Industrial Relations Journal...
For example, the average education level of the workforce is comparable. The share of the population that has completed tertiary education among 25–34 year-olds is close to 40% in both countries (OECD, 2013). The female labor force participation rate is high in both countries. Sweden has ...
The measures following the worst riots in living memory include: Plans to make all 16-year-olds carry out National Citizen Service -- a form of volunteer work.Tougher conditions on claiming benefits for the jobless. Ending the "chilling effect" of the human rights culture in Britain and ...
(iii) the end of the observation period on the 31 December 2016. To maintain cross-sectional representativeness, supplementary annual samples of 18-year-olds were drawn to guarantee the presence of the youngest age group in the data throughout the observation period. For each observation year, ...