Youth unemployment can lead to long-term cognitive and emotional scars

By SharpBrains | July 21, 2015

. Youth unem­ploy­ment pro­duces mul­ti­ple scar­ring effects (British Pol­i­tics & Pol­i­cy): “Being unem­ployed when young leads to a high­er like­li­hood of long-term ‘scar­ring’ in lat­er life in terms of sub­se­quent low­er pay, high­er unem­ploy­ment and reduced life chances accord­ing to much research…There is also evi­dence of greater men­tal health prob­lems in their 40s or 50s

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The real brain drain: How unemployment depletes cognitive and emotional resources

By SharpBrains | February 17, 2015

. How Unem­ploy­ment Impacts Your Per­son­al­i­ty (Entre­pre­neur): “Unem­ploy­ment is no cake­walk. It’s well doc­u­ment­ed that an invol­un­tary job­less state can take a steep toll on one’s emo­tion­al and phys­i­cal health, and now new research illu­mi­nates a more sub­tle, if high­ly cor­ro­sive, con­se­quence the inabil­i­ty to find work can have on a per­son. In short, it…

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