The characteristics of youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) in Australia and Japan

This paper focuses on comparing young people who are 'not in employment, education or training' or known as NEET, in Australia and Japan. [The author begins] by creating sub-groups of young people that allow for meaningful comparisons between the two countries as well as an Australian measure that is comparable to the Japanese definition of NEET. For both countries, the three sub-groups include young people who are unemployed, those with home duties and those without home duties. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics Survey (HILDA) and the Japanese Household Panel Survey (JHPS), [the author then compares] the socioeconomic characteristics between the three NEET groups by their age and gender, education, health, living arrangements, housing and income for both countries. The results show that in general, young people who were unemployed in Japan were the most disadvantaged group while young people without home duties were the most disadvantaged in Australia.

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