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This Report Examines How and Why People Become Trapped in A Long-Term Cycle of Low-Paid Jobs and Unemployment (I.e. The Low-Pay, No-Pay' Cycle)
This Report Examines How and Why People Become Trapped in A Long-Term Cycle of Low-Paid Jobs and Unemployment (I.e. The Low-Pay, No-Pay' Cycle)
Jobs as care assistants, factory workers, labourers or shop assistants did not act as
stepping stones to better employment. A key question for the project was whether the low-
pay, no-pay cycle that entrapped the young adults in our earlier studies in poor transitions
continued. It did. This study, therefore, provides further evidence that the stepping stones
thesis does not capture the reality of the working lives of the younger adults in our study.