More than a tenth of young people have lost their jobs during the pandemic, and only 38% of pupils were getting the equivalent of a full day's schooling in lockdown. Lee Elliot Major (University of Exeter), Andrew Eyles (LSE) and Stephen Machin (LSE) warn that these losses will have a scarring effect: young people cannot simply 'catch up'.

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1 October 2020

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LSE Covid-19

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2020/10/27/denied-jobs-and-schooling-generation-covid-faces-a-struggle-to-catch-up/

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