Lost Opportunities for Asia’s Lockdown Generation

Lost Opportunities for Asia’s Lockdown Generation

November 13, 2020

Jean Yeung
Provost's Chair Professor Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, NUS CFPR and Department of Sociology

Professor Jean Yeung (NUS Centre for Family and Population Research (CFPR) and Department of Sociology) discusses ways the pandemic is making the impact of economic recession on young people much worse compared to other age groups in a piece in Bloomberg. She warns that the impact of this crisis may strain relations with older generations and put young people’s mental health at risk. Prof Yeung also speaks about women being forced into unpaid labour as they fall out of the workforce.

Read the article here.
Listen to the podcast here.

 

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