Resources on youth employment

Promoting job creation for young people in multinational enterprises and their supply chains: Sierra Leone

14 December 2010

Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 8

Gundo Lashu (Our Victory): Labour intensive public roads programmes in South Africa

01 December 2010

With more than 25 per cent of jobless people, the Republic of South Africa is faced with rampant unemployment – coupled with high levels of poverty and a lack of skills. As part of the South African Government’s strategy to provide poverty and income relief through temporary work, the labour intensive Expanded Public Works Programme was introduced in 2004. It received technical support from the ILO, which is also assisting the Government with the development and formulation of policy. South African journalist Eleanor Momberg reports from Johannesburg.

Promoting a recovery focused on jobs

01 December 2010

The global financial crisis has led to the highest level of unemployment ever recorded – 210 million people. This has sharpened prior international concern about the failure of the global economy to generate enough decent work opportunities in all countries.

Decent Work and Youth in Latin America 2010

03 November 2010

The report shows the educational and employment situation of young people in Latin America including a description of the most important indicators, an analysis on the causes and consequences, and the challenges that youth access to productive and decent work poses to governments and other stakeholders in the region, and possible courses of action to address them.

Promoting job creation for young people in multinational enterprises and their supply chains: Liberia

02 September 2010

Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 7

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.

Fact sheet on Youth Employment 2010

11 August 2010

Characterizing the school-to-work transitions of young men and women: Evidence from the ILO School-to-work transition surveys

02 June 2010

Employment Working Paper No. 51

Accelerating action against child labour; Global Report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work - 2010

12 May 2010

In its quadrennial Global Report on child labour, the ILO says that the global number of child labourers had declined from 222 million to 215 million, or 3 per cent, over the period 2004 to 2008, representing a “slowing down of the global pace of reduction.” The report also expresses concern that the global economic crisis could “further brake” progress toward the goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016.

(I-077) Yearbook of Labour Statistics - Time series - 2010

01 January 2010

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