According to a labour market analysis from Centre for Cities, a think tank that studies the UK\u2019s urban economics, Youth unemployment varies considerably from city to city.<\/p>\n
Before the recession, 13.8 per cent of working population aged 16\u201324 was unemployed compared with 16.2 per cent today. At 5.9 per cent of young claimants, Oxford has the lowest long-term unemployment, while Warrington has the highest, with over a quarter of unemployed young people looking for
\nwork for a year or more.<\/p>\n
Overall, youth unemployment has fallen in cities across the country, except Blackpool where there has been a six percentage point increase to 22.1 per cent. Source: centreforcities.org<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to a labour market analysis from Centre for Cities, a think tank that studies the UK\u2019s urban economics, Youth unemployment varies considerably from city to city. Before the recession,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,36,38,37,32,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-be-positive","category-internship","category-join-the-conversation","category-work-experience","category-workshops","category-youth"],"yoast_head":"\n