Global Employment Trends and related reports

A series of reports that analyse global and regional economic and labour market developments based on the most recently available data.

When:

19 October 2011

Latest release

Global Employment Trends for Youth 2012 Press release: English, Français, Español

The annual Global Employment Trends report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including unemployment, youth employment and working poverty. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.

Global Employment Trends (GET) series

With a view to developing information and analysis that is essential for promoting full, decent and productive work for all, including women and young people, the Global Employment Trends series review global and regional economic and labour market developments based on the most recently available data. The reports build on the Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM), and include a consistent set of tables with regional and global estimates of labour market indicators as generated from the Estimates and projections of labour market indicators. Each issue of Global Employment Trends also contains a short term labour market outlook based on projections or scenarios, focusing on unemployment, vulnerable employment and working poverty.

The reports have been published on a yearly basis since 2003, with special editions to analyze labour market trends for segments of the population such as youth (2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010) and women (2004, 2007, 2008 and 2009), or for certain regions. The January 2009 issue focused on the labour market impact of the global economic crisis. An update of the crisis impact was issued in May 2009. The gender impact of the crisis was the main subject of the Global Employment Trends for Women in March 2009.

A word of caution: Each GET, its data and analysis, is the result of a new run of the Global Employment Trends Model, which uses as input the latest available labour market information from the ILO and other sources to generate the world and regional aggregates. This means each new report is based on the best available estimates at that point in time and that the time series of world and regional aggregates from one report to the next are not comparable. The most recent GET should always be taken as the most up-to-date source of world and regional estimates of labour market information.