While less likely to vote, young people are, instead, more likely to experience spells of unemployment at the beginning of their careers. This is similarly problematic, because unemployment experiences decrease the probability of voting - even after an individual gets another job. In my recent study published in the British Journal of Sociology, I show that these two effects are combined in a double disadvantage. Notes: Conditional Marginal Effects on Electoral Participation with 95% Confidence Intervals, for the interaction between Unemp. This doubly disadvantaged group could be critical to shape the future of the UK – whether they vote or not.
