Hannah Barnes

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509 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2011 last heard Oct 2013

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More or Less · Youth Unemployment · 8 Apr 2011 podcast

I'm at Westminster University in central London. voice-verified

I'm in the canteen of the Marylebone campus. voice-verified

I've managed to find three young undergraduates. voice-verified

How would you sort of categorise your status at the moment? voice-verified

What are you doing? voice-verified

What about you, Robin? voice-verified

Roberto, do you do any paid work as well as your full-time studies? voice-verified

What about you, Robin? voice-verified

Do you do any work? voice-verified

Have you looked for any work at all? voice-verified

Okay, and what about you, Simon? voice-verified

Do you work? voice-verified

Now, despite Simon, Robin and Roberto all being in full-time education, they're all classed differently for the purposes of the official employment stats. voice-verified

Roberto's employed. voice-verified

Robin's unemployed because he's looked for paid work, but he didn't get it. voice-verified

And Simon would be counted as economically inactive. voice-verified

I asked them what they thought about that. voice-verified

Well, yes, it does. voice-verified

And it's true that if you discount unemployed students, the headline figure falls quite dramatically. voice-verified

But if you agree with the government's line that students shouldn't be counted as unemployed, then by the same logic, they shouldn't be counted as employed either. voice-verified

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