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Mismatch With The Skills In The Labour Market
Welcome back, everybody. For today’s article, I will discuss the problems in the labour market caused by Generation Z refusing to work.
With 11% of Generation Z unemployed, the situation is even worse in China, with over 21% of that generation’s Generation Z refusing to work.
Gen Z was born between 1997 and 2010.
The reasons for this are their parents being the Boomer generation, born between 1946 and 1964, and the other generation who is also their parents, generation X, born between 1965 and 1980.
Those two generations were predominantly blue-collar workers who primarily worked in the manual, service sector, and other low-skilled professions.
When it came time for them to have their children, they encouraged them to look down on blue-collar jobs in favour of white-collar jobs.
These are jobs where people are highly paid or working in offices.
Because they raised their children to look down on manual labour, a generation of people is refusing to get blue-collar jobs because they believe those jobs are beneath them.
Also, with that generation getting more college degrees and more university degrees in the United Kingdom, 80% of Generation Z get a university bachelor’s degree due to the…
