Regional outlook
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Focus on:Employment trends in North Africa [Video interview with ILO economist in Cairo, Dorothea Schmidt] |
Global Employment Trends
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Global Employment Trends Update - September 2012
Bleak Labour Market Prospects for Youth
The September update of the Global Employment Trends Report 2012 shows that jobless rates among young people will get even worse globally as the spillover of the euro crisis spreads from advanced to emerging economies.
Global Employment Trends for Women
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December 2012
Labour market gender gap: Two steps forward, one step back
The gender gap in global labour markets showed some convergence in the earlier part of the last decade but increased after the crisis erupted in 2007, according to the ILO report produced in collaboration with UN Women. The picture varies considerably among regions.
Global Employment Trends 2012
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January 2012
World faces a 600 million jobs challenge
The world faces the “urgent challenge” of creating 600 million productive jobs over the next decade in order to generate sustainable growth and maintain social cohesion, according to the Global Employment Trends Report "Preventing Preventing a deeper jobs crisis" issued in January 2012.
Facts and figures
| Interview with Steven Kapsos, labour economist at the ILO, on facts and figures describing the global and regional employment picture. |
Global unemployment trends and projections, 2002–2016
- Female employment-to-population ratio by region and age group: Evolution between 2000 and 2010
- Unemployment rates 2011: Total vs. adjusted for reduced labour force participation (world and regions)
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