What is the solution to youth unemployment?

Proponents argue that young people are unemployed chiefly because they lack the capabilities and credentials employers require, and that publicly backed education and training programmes are the most direct way to close that gap.

Advocates argue that young people are rationed out of credit by having no collateral and no repayment record, and that giving them access to capital lets them create their own work rather than wait for someone to offer it.

On this view the skills largely exist but are not connected to where they are needed, so proponents argue that better matching between young workers and existing vacancies, rather than more training, is what would cut youth unemployment.

Proponents argue that work is now found, applied for and often performed online, so a young person without reliable connectivity is excluded from the labour market whatever their skills, making universal access the decisive fix.