London1 million Britons are neither working nor studying.
Early isolation shows up decades later as scarred lifetime earnings, researchers found.
Most jobs are found through loose acquaintances, not close family, so isolated teenagers miss the channel vacancies travel through.
The finding is observational, since isolation and disadvantage often travel together in the data.
How each outlet framed it
- Phys.org
- distinguishes loneliness (feeling mismatch) from isolation, identifies mismatch as NEET predictor in UK youth
Sources: Phys.org