Refers to those who are more likely to experience low levels of well‑being (OECD, 2017a).
‘Disadvantaged youth’ in many countries is used as an umbrella category which embraces all young people with fewer opportunities than their peers and in some countries other terms like youth-at-risk, vulnerable youth, disconnected youth or social excluded youth are preferred to describe social inequality among young people (Bendit & Stokes, 2003). […] Empirically, access to education and transitions in the life course are structured by categories of social inequality such as socio-economic status and class, gender and ‘ethnicity’. These categories impact the educational and career options available for a young person in an inter-sectional way and lead to different forms of social inclusion and exclusion (GOETE, no date).