Researchers say the figures have been driven by the death of the Saturday job and a move away from earning while learning.
The proportion of people of working age who have never been in a job has increased by 50% over the past two decades, a new study suggests.
According to think tank Resolution Foundation, 8.2% of people aged 16-64 in the UK today have never had a paid job.Its report said the employment rate of 16 to 17-year-olds has virtually halved over the past two decades - from 48.1% in 1997-99 to 25.4% in 2017-19. Two-thirds of the fall is driven by a declining employment rate among 16 to 17-year-olds at school or college, it was indicated.Laura Gardiner, research director at the Resolution Foundation, said:"More and more of us are now working, with employment hitting record highs and worklessness hitting record lows.
"But despite this, around one in 12 working-age adults have never worked a day in their lives - a 50% increase since the late 1990s.
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