Why it’s important young, unemployed Australians get a good job instead of just ‘any’ job
- Written by Brendan Churchill, ARC Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Melbourne

We often hear young people need to get a job – any job – but what if the problem isn’t whether they’re working or not, but the kind of job they end up in?
New research in the Australian Journal of Social Issues shows many young people who are in roles where they’re not working to their...