Meaning of Status Zer0 | Babel Free

Definitions

A status of having no employment and not in any educational or training programme.

UK, dated, uncountable

Examples

“An effective analysis of some of the structural limitations that exist in people's lives with particular reference to the problems experienced by Status Zer0 youth.”

“So few young people found employment they are almost immaterial to the analysis. For the purposes of this paper, one critical finding was that two-fifths of these young people experienced Status Zer0 for six months or more (an arbitrary cut-off point, but a pertinent one nonetheless, since it represents a quarter of the full course of a youth training programme).”

“While few parents would endorse the unemployed status of their offspring at this age, a proportion of 16 and 17 year olds faced with limited opportunities in employment or training, opt out of the system altogether (Status Zer0).”

“Unemployed young people and those not engaged in education or training -- pejoratively referred to first as Status Zer0 and then NEETs (Furlong, 2006) -- became a special focus of concern, with a consequent drive to encourage, if not to coerce, participation.”

“A cursory comparison of status zer0 young people from two neighbouring, but contrasting localities illuminates not only important similarities amongst status zer0 young people but also some striking differences: in backgrounds, support networks, attitudes and anticipated futures.”

“At their most desperate or resourceful, young women who are status zer0 survive through the criminal economy and in many cases through prostitution.”

“What was particularly disturbing in the data is that, of those in 'status zer0', 'long-term' members far outnumbered the 'short-termers' who had spent less than six months out of work and learning - only 6 out of the 402 sample (Istance et al., 1994, p. 53).”

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