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The shadow economy is one of many names for it. You might hear it as working ‘off the books’ or ‘under the table’. Officially, it’s the ‘informal economy’, ‘underground economy’ or ‘non-wage [...]

Though the economy is slowly recovering, unemployment and poverty still loom large. Raising the minimum wage to combat these ills has become a hot topic, and young people are at the centre of the [...]

Youth unemployment is nowadays a serious problem all around the world. In some countries the amount of young people who do not have a job reaches more than 50%. And it is known that the [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9 SEPTEMBER 2013 Summit finds answers to creating a billion jobs for young people The International Youth Job Creation Summit, hosted at the Department of Business, [...]

Rightly or wrongly, the world labels all of us. This can range from personal things to wide-ranging identifiers such as our nationality and religion. I’m European. This makes me a ‘Westerner’, or [...]