Video News Releases

May 2013

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   Denmark - Matching skills to jobs

   08 May 2013

   Recovery in Europe is being hampered by the fact that many of the workers who lost their jobs to the crisis do not have the skills that the labour market now demands. Vocational training programmes help keep youth connected to the labour market by ensuring they have the skills that companies are looking for.

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   Sweden tackles youth unemployment through jobs guarantees

   08 May 2013

   It's not easy being a young jobseeker today. With nearly 74 million young people worldwide unemployed, youth guarantees programmes help keep youth connected to the labour market by boosting skills and giving them support to find jobs.

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   Making the move from school to work in Malawi and Zambia

   08 May 2013

   The global jobs crisis is taking a heavy toll on young people in the advanced economies of Europe where 1 in five are out of work, but in the developing world the situation is much more severe. Two out of three young people in developing countries are either unemployed or trying to survive day to day in low paying, irregular jobs. There is an urgent need for training and education programs that prepare young people with the skills employers are looking for.

April 2013

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   Austerity a threat to prosperity?

   09 April 2013

   Unemployment in Europe has reached historic levels and there is growing concern that the jobs crisis is so deep it will have a profound impact on the region's ability to recover.

May 2012

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   The Drive to Reduce Drop Outs - ILO TV reports from the Netherlands

   22 May 2012

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   Jobs for youth: lost for years to come

   21 May 2012

   Gains in employment rates for young people have been wiped out by the economic crisis. According to the ILO's Global Employment Trends for Youth 2012, it may take 4-5 years before jobs rebound. In the meantime, many of the 75 million unemployed young people will completely give up looking for work. ILO TV reports from Athens, Greece

January 2012

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   Global Employment Trends 2012

   23 January 2012

   Three years after the global economic crisis devastated markets, wiped out savings, ruined businesses and disrupted the lives of billions of working people, the International Labour Organization’s annual report on global employment has concluded that the deep consequences of the crisis are continuing into 2012. The report also calls for a global response to create hundreds of millions of new, productive jobs in the next ten years.

December 2010

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   Working Together to Boost Youth Employment in Serbia

   31 December 2010

   Serbia was hit hard by the global economic crisis, particularly its young people, who are living a “crisis within the crisis”. Often what they learned in school doesn’t match what employers are looking for, making it hard for them to find work. It’s worse for young people who didn’t do well in school, or dropped out. But in Serbia, the government, trade unions and employers, working together, have designed new policy interventions to give young people, especially those with low levels of education, a chance to find a decent job and keep it.

November 2010

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   Argentina’s Response to Economic Crisis Through Social Protection

   16 November 2010

   Record unemployment is one of the consequences of the global economic crisis, but in Argentina, fewer jobs were lost in the crisis than in many other countries. A new report from the ILO found that’s because Argentina learned some lessons from a bitter experience in the past, and protected jobs when hard times came around again.

September 2010

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   Labour Market Recession Threatens Social Cohesion

   30 September 2010

   The global economy is recovering but according to a report from the ILO, a labour market recession looms on the horizon if measures are not taken to ensure a job-rich recovery and a more equitable distribution of the gains from economic growth.