Investigating young adults’ mental health and early working life trajectories from a life course perspective: the role of transitions

Many young adults leave the labour market because of mental health problems or never really enter it, through early moves onto disability benefits. Across many countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, between 30% and 50% of all new disability benefit claims are due to mental health problems; among young adults this moves up to 50%-80%.We propose a research agenda focused on transitions in building young adults'...