Global employment trends for youth reports

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

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

The ILO Global Employment Trends for Youth reports provide empirical research as well as quantitative assessments of the realities of youth labour markets to build an analytical starting block from which countries can identify the main challenges facing youth for the process of designing the policies most suited to their particular situations. At the same time, the data and analyses in the reports will strengthen the capacity of the ILO’s programme on youth employment to provide assistance to countries in developing coherent and coordinated interventions on youth employment that are based on analytical reviews of labour market information.

The latest report (2006) adds to growing evidence of a global situation in which young people face increasing difficulties when entering the labour force. One of the principal findings is that a global deficit of decent work opportunities has resulted in a situation in which one out of every three youth in the world is either seeking but unable to find work, has given up the job search entirely or is working but still living below the US$2 a day poverty line. Without the right foothold from which to start out right in the labour market, young people are less able to make choices that will improve their own job prospects and those of their future dependents. This, in turn, perpetuates the cycle of insufficient education, low-productivity employment and working poverty from one generation to the next. The report, therefore, adds urgency to the UN call for development of strategies aimed to give young people a chance to make the most of their productive potential through decent employment.

Regional labour market trends for youth briefs

Regional labour market trends for youth: Africa. ILO Youth Employment Programme (September 2006): 978-92-2-119989-2 (web pdf only)