ILO approach to meeting the youth employment challenge

Youth: Pathways to decent work, Background report of the International Labour Conference, 93rd Session, June 2005 (FR, ES)

Starting right: Decent work for young people, Background report of the ILO Tripartite meeting on youth employment: The way forward (October 2004) (FR, ES)

Starting right: Decent work for young people, Conclusions of the ILO Tripartite meeting on youth employment: The way forward (October 2004) (FR, ES)

Starting right: Decent work for young people, Note on the proceedings of the ILO Tripartite meeting on youth employment: The way forward (October 2004) (FR, ES)

Youth employment: From a national challenge to a global development goal, Background paper to the G8 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Conference (March 2005) (FR)

Improving prospects for young women and men in the world of work: A guide to youth employment (2004)

Decent work: a common goal of youth and trade unions (in collaboration with the ICFTU) (2002)

Meeting the youth employment challenge: A guide for employers (2001)

Data and analytical work

Employment Strategy Paper 2004/19 School-to-work transition of youth in Sri Lanka
S.T. Hettige, Markus mayer, Maleeka Salih

Global employment trends for youth (2006) (EN, FR, ES)

Global employment trends for youth (2004) (EN, FR, ES)

Report on the school-to-work transition in Vietnam (2004)

Report on the school-to-work transition in Indonesia (2004)

Minimum wages and youth unemployment (1998)

Promoting entrepreneurship and enterprise development

Stimulating Youth Entrepreneurship: Barriers and incentives to enterprise start-ups by young people SEED Working Paper No.76 (2006) Ulrich Schoof

Being "Real" about Youth Entrepreneurship in Eastern and Southern Africa: Implications for Adults, Institutions and Sector Structures, Series on Youth and Entrepreneurship, SEED Working Paper No.72 (2005) Francis Chigunta, Jamie Schnurr, David James-Wilson and Veronica Torres

Facilitating youth entrepreneurship, Part I: An analysis of awareness and promotion programmes in formal and non-formal education (2003)

Facilitating youth entrepreneurship, Part II: A directory of awareness and promotion programmes in formal and non-formal education (2004)

Pathways to livelihoods and decent work: Strategies and tools for investing in young people (2003)

Youth Business International: Bridging the gap between unemployment and self-employment for disadvantaged youth (2002)

Enterprise-based youth employment policies, strategies and programmes: Initiatives for the development of enterprise action and strategies (2001)

Enterprise-based youth employment strategies and programmes (Simon White and Peter Kenyon), IFP/SKILLS working paper no. 1 (2001)

Promoting skills development

Facilitating labour market entry for youth through enterprise-based schemes in vocational education and training and skills development (2004) SEED working paper no. 48

Youth at risk: The role of skills development in facilitating the transition to work (2004) SKILLS working paper no. 19 - (EN - FR - SP)

Local development, productive networks and training: alternative approaches to training and work for young people (2004) (html only)

Youth Business International : Bridging the gap between unemployment and self-employment for disadvantaged youth (Rachel Chambers and Anna Lake), IFP/SKILLS working paper no. 3 (2002) 

Experiences of work training for young people in Latin America (2000)

Education, employment and training policies and programmes for youth with disabilities in four European countries (1998) (html only)

Juventud, educación y empleo (1998) (ES) (html only)

Job creation

Employing youth: Promoting employment-intensive growth (2000) (EN)(ES)

L'insertion des jeunes et les politiques d'emploi-formation (1997)

Youth in crisis

Youth in crisis: From victim to protagonist

Country or regional studies

Employment Strategy Paper 2005/9 
Youth employment in Vietnam: Characteristics, determinants and policy responses
Dang Nguyen Anh, le Bach Duong and Nguyen Hai Van

Employment Strategy Paper 2005/8 
Chômage et conditions d'emploi des jeunes au Mali
Fousseini Traoré

Employment Strategy Paper 2005/7 
Characteristics and determinants of youth unemployment, underemploymant and inadequate employment in Ethiopia
Berhanu Denu, Abraham Tekeste and Hannah van der Deijl

Employment Strategy Paper 2005/6 
Chômage et employabilité des jeunes au Maroc
Noureddine El Aoufi et Mohammed Bensaïd

Employment Strategy Paper 2005/5  
Caractéristiques et déterminants de l'emploi des jeunes au Cameroun
Gilles B. Njike Njikam, Roland M. Lontzchi Tchoffo et Violet Fotzeu Mwaffo

Employment Strategy Paper 2005/4 
Towards a national action plan for youth employment in the Azerbaijan Republic
Martin Godfrey

Employment Strategy Paper 2005/2  
Mercado de trabajo juvenil: Argentina, Brasil y México
M. C. Cacciamali

Jóvenes y empleo en los noventa (2001) (html only)

Youth employment in Egypt (Willem van Eekelen, Loretta de Luca and Magwa Ismail), IFP/SKILLS working paper no. 2 (2001)

Youth unemployment and youth employment policies in Italy (1999)

French youth unemployment (1998)

Unemployment among youth in India (1998)

Youth unemployment and youth labour market policies in Germany and Canada (1998)

Políticas de inserción de los jóvenes en los mercados de trabajo en la Unión Europea (1997) (ES)

Youth unemployment in Hungary and Poland (1997) (html only)

Priced Publications

can be obtained from: Pubvente@ilo.org

Starting the new millennium right: Decent employment for young people, by Gianni Rosas and Giovanna Rossignotti International Labour Revue, 2005 - Volume 144/2

Young soldiers: why they choose to fight (Rachel Brett, Irma Specht, 2004) (CHF 27,50)

Jobs after war (ed. Eugenia Date-Bah) (2003) (CHF 50.--)

Youth unemployment and employment policy: A global perspective (Niall O'Higgins, 2001)(CHF 27,50)

Youth reinventing cooperatives - young perspectives on the international co-operative movement
ICA/ILO/BCICS/CCA
2005, ISBN 1-55058-307-7
$ 22.96 CDN
Available from http://bcics.uvic.ca/youthzone/