%0 Journal Article
%T Influence of Work¨CWelfare Cycling and Labour Market Segmentation on Employment Histories of Young Long
%A Alan McGregor
%A Alexander McTier
%J Work, Employment and Society
%@ 1469-8722
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0950017017697857
%X The onset of the ¡®Great Recession¡¯ from 2008 was associated with a significant increase in long-term unemployment among young people. Work¨Cwelfare cycling has been put forward as a contributory factor. Drawing on a large-scale survey of long-term unemployed young people, this article argues that segmented labour market theory provides a strong explanatory framework for understanding the nature of long-term unemployment among young people, with the literature on work¨Cwelfare cycling contributing to an understanding of one of the processes by which precarious employment impacts on employability and labour supply. A second key finding is the heterogeneous nature of the young long-term unemployed, which in turn requires policy responses more customized to the needs of the different groups
%K segmented labour markets
%K work¨Cwelfare cycling
%K youth unemployment
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017017697857