Bangladesh
- Bangladesh: Women's empowerment through employment and Health. Women's empowerment through decent employment (WEDE)
China
- China Employment Forum, April 2005
The objective of this Forum was to reach a Common Understanding between the ILO and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, with active participation of the China Employers' Federation and All China Federation of Trade Unions. The Common Understanding identified areas of further work and follow-up.
- School-to-work Transition Survey (Pilot)
The School-to-Work Transition Survey (STWTS) is a statistical tool that helps countries improve their youth employment policy and programme design through a better understanding of the characteristics and determinants of the youth employment challenge. The Survey is conducted through interviews of a sample that reflects the composition of the targeted population. Information is collected through a questionnaire that captures both quantitative and qualitative data relating to a number of aspects.
Youth employment features high in the agenda of the government of China. To date, however, too little is known about the characteristics and determinants of the youth employment challenge as well as the opportunities for and aspirations of young people, their difficulties, working conditions, etc. The objective thus is to understand the process of transition of young people from school to work, in particular to quantify the relative ease or difficulty of labour market entry of young people as they first exit school. Keeping in mind that the first labour market experience of a young person can influence his labour market situation throughout his life, it is important to identify the explanatory factors behind "easy" or "difficult" transitions so that policies can be developed and initiated to improve the transition process where needed.
The sample size of the survey is based on the five target groups that the survey aims to address, namely in-school youth, working youth, unemployed job-seekers, self employed youth and not in labour force youth. The total and approximate sample size of the survey will be 6,000 households and 200 employers. For the individual questionnaires, all efforts are made to address 50% of the questionnaires to young women and 50% to young men, to reflect the urban and rural youth population distribution (at least 25% of the questionnaires are sent to rural areas) and to reflect all the target groups' distribution. The geographic coverage comprises Sichuan Province, Hunan Province, Liaoning Province and Tanjian Province.
The survey report and the analysis of the youth employment situation will be prepared on the basis of the data obtained from the questionnaires. Proposals on youth employment in China will be based on the survey results. The report will cover the following areas: A. Employment Situation of Youth Surveyed and B. Factors affecting youth employment.
India
- Decent Employment for Women, 2001 - 2004
- Economic Empowerment of Rural Women and Job Security Programme in Kutch, Gujarat
- Improving Working Conditions and Employment for Women in the Beedi Industry India, 2000- 2004
Indonesia
- Youth Employment Project
The project objectives were to:
1. prepare an employment component of the PRSP,
2. assist in preparing Youth Employment Action programme,
3. conduct a school-to-work transition survey in three provinces.
Project activities: Missions were undertaken in May-August and November-December 2003. Work on PRSP and Youth Employment were delivered, and the School-to-Work transition report was published in 2004.
Mongolia
- Promoting decent and productive work for young women and men in Mongolia: ILO/Korea Partnership Programme - 2005
Through this project, the ILO will provide technical support to assist Mongolia's government and social partners in their efforts to improve the labour market situation of their young people. It will develop a knowledge base and widely disseminate information to inform policy makers, social partners and youth organizations in developing youth-specific interventions.
A coordinating committee will be set up including the Ministry of Social Welfare and Labour (MOSWL), the Mongolian Employers' Federation (MONEF) and the Confederation of Mongolian Trade Unions (CMTU) as well as the National Statistical Office, youth-related organizations and other key organizations dealing with employment promotion and youth issues.
Under direction of the coordinating committee, a person or institution will be assigned to conduct an inventory of the initiatives that have already been taken to address issues of youth employment in Mongolia. This will be used to analyse the key characteristics of the labour market in order to identify some of the determinants of employment, unemployment and underemployment.
Policymakers and stakeholders will benefit from international practices related to youth employment. Under the project the most useful publications, documents and materials prepared by the ILO will be translated into Mongolian.
Based on the work during 2005, a detailed proposal will be prepared for 2006/2007. This will include plans for a School-to-Work Transition Survey, a national conference of young people, an action plan and implementation strategy for youth employment, and programmes and projects for direct action in implementing the employment strategy for Mongolian youth.
Nepal
- ILO Contribution to the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)
Pakistan
- Contribution to the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)
Capacity-building of the Centre for Research on Poverty Reduction and Income Distribution. Report: "Fiscal strategy for growth and employment in Pakistan: An alternative consideration", by Tariq A. Haq.
Philippines
- Work in progress on "Services in a global economy: A model of the employment impact of trade liberalization in the service sector"
As part of the integrated response 1 of the Decent Work Country Pilot Programme in the Philippines on 'competitiveness and employment', the objective of this activity was to be able to understand and forecast the impact of service trade liberalization on service sector employment. The lead initiative and follow up is being undertaken by the Deparment of Labour and Employment. The aim of this paper was to develop a model which would not be extremely data-intensive and use available data sets. The model adopted was gravity model of trade. The follow-up would be to fit the actual data to the model.
Vietnam
- Country case study for the research project "Understanding how the labour market functions for youth in the developing world"
The objective of the country case studies is to move toward a better understanding of the nature and causes of youth labour market disadvantage by documenting the characteristics of the youth labour market, including key indicators and by identifying and gathering hard evidence on the determinants of youth unemployment and underemployment. The study is organised around two parts:
Part I: Characteristics - Where does the specificity of employment vis-à-vis young people lie?
- 1. Key indicators of the youth labour market
- 2. Which young people?
- 3. To what extent are the labour markets for young people and adults distinct entities?
- 4. Time spent in unemployment
Part II: Determinants - Why the difference between the youth unemployment problem and the unemployment problem in general? Why are young people two to three times more likely to be either unemployed or underemployed than are prime age workers?
- 1. Demographic factors
- 2. Labour market and social institutions
- 3. Aggregate demand
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- More and Better Jobs for Young Women in Vietnam, 2001 - 2004
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