Employment Trends (EMP/TRENDS) resources

Global Employment Trends for Women 2012

30 January 2013

Part of the Global Employment Trends series, this publication delivers the most current information on emerging trends and key challenges facing women in labour markets around the world.
Global Employment Trends 2013

29 January 2013

The annual Global Employment Trends (GET) reports provide the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity and working poverty, while also analysing country-level issues and trends in the labour market.
Global Employment Outlook, April 2012 projections

27 April 2012

The global jobs challenge has worsened since the beginning of 2012. New projections indicate that globally 202 million people will be seeking a job this year.
Global Employment Trends for Youth: 2011 update

26 October 2011

The report presents the latest global and regional labour market trends for youth and examines whether or not the situation that young people face in the labour market has improved or worsened over the year and a half since the release of the special edition of the Global Employment Trends for Youth, August 2010 on the impact of the economic crisis. One year later, with an environment of growing uncertainty in the economic recovery and stalled recovery in the job market, the report draws the unfortunate conclusion that the situation facing youth in the labour market has not improved and that prospects for the future are not much better.
Global Employment Trends 2011: The challenge of a jobs recovery

01 January 2011

The annual Global Employment Trends (GET) report provides the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity and working poverty, while also analysing country-level issues and trends in the labour market. Taking into account macroeconomic trends and forecasts, the GET includes a short-term outlook for labour markets around the world.
Global Employment Trends for Youth, August 2010

12 August 2010

The report presents the latest global and regional labour market trends for youth and specifically explores how the global economic crisis has exposed the vulnerabilities of young people around the world. In developed economies, the crisis has led to the highest youth unemployment rates on record, while in developing economies – where 90 per cent of the world’s youth live – the crisis threatens to exacerbates the challenges of rampant decent work deficits, adding to the number of young people who find themselves stuck in working poverty and thus prolonging the cycle of working poverty through at least another generation.
Women in labour markets: Measuring progress and identifying challenges

05 March 2010

This report uses labour market indicators to measure progress or lack of progress towards the goal of gender equality in the world of work and identify where and why blockages to labour market equity continue to exist.
Global Employment Trends, January 2010

26 January 2010

An update of the annual ILO Global Employment Trends series, available since 2003
Trends Econometric Models: A Review of Methodology

19 January 2010

Provides a detailed description of the methodology used in the Global Employment Trends Model. This publication is only available in soft copies.
KILM 6th Edition, Chapter 1c, MDG Employment Indicators: Country examples

06 September 2009

Chapter 1c looks at the latest available data for Botswana, Pakistan and Ukraine, countries of diverging economic and social contexts, with the aim of demonstrating how the MDG employment indicators can be used as a starting point for a fuller labour market analysis based on a broader set of indicators.