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Employment in Focus blog series
Employment services explained: Key questions on labour market challenges and opportunities
Employment services are central to connecting people to opportunities and supporting labour market transitions. Senior ILO expert Michael Mwasikakata explains why, and sheds a light on issues around technological transformation, skills development,...
Employment in Focus blog series
Navigating Generative AI’s transformations in ASEAN labour markets
ILO employment specialists in Asia analyse the impact by sector, occupation, gender, and education level and explore implications for future policy responses
Employment in Focus blog series
The kids are not alright: Policy responses to jobs and social protection for the youth
Young people are facing unprecedented levels of stress and uncertainty, driven by concerns about job and financial security, and access to social protection. ILO experts explore the factors behind these trends and policy measures that can improve...
ILO Macro policies
Opening markets, shaping jobs: The EU-India trade agreement
The EU and India have signed a long-awaited trade agreement which promises to reshape trade, growth, and employment across two of the world’s largest markets. ILO experts Radhicka Kapoor and Kee Beom Kim examine what this means for jobs, wages, and...
Questions and Answers
From papers to people: How employment policies shape lives and jobs
Dorothea Schmidt, Chief, ILO’s Employment Policy, Labour Market and Youth (EMPLAB) branch, explains how well-designed employment policies can turn the promise of decent work into lived reality. She reflects on the role of social dialogue,...
ILO Macro policies
When young workers are left behind: The economic cost of youth unemployment and underemployment
ILO macro-economic and employment policies specialist Kee Beom Kim shows why helping youth get good employment is essential not only for young people, but for a country’s overall macroeconomic stability, at time when economies are navigating change...
Questions and Answers
Rethinking AI’s impact on the future of work
AI’s impact goes beyond the quantity of jobs- it’s also about how technology is affecting wages, conditions and new opportunities. Sher Verick answers questions about some overlooked dimensions and what it will take to ensure AI benefits all...
ILO Macro policies
Greening the economy to safeguard growth and employment
Delaying climate action threatens growth and jobs. Kee Beom Kim, ILO Macro-Economic and Employment Policies Specialist, highlights why a timely, well-designed transition is essential for protecting economies and workers.
World food day
Can Africa harness agriculture for decent job creation?
Africa struggles to convert its vast agricultural potential into economic benefits. Grace Gondwe examines the paradox of resource dependence and ways to leverage agriculture for decent job creation and economic transformation.
Employment in Focus series
Towards a pro-employment macroeconomic framework: The case of India
For sustainable development, economies need more than growth- they need good jobs. In this article, Radhicka Kapoor, senior employment specialist at the ILO and Amit Basole, professor of Economics at Azim Premji University argue that macroeconomic...
International youth day
Measuring what matters: NEET vs youth unemployment
Today, hundreds of millions of young people worldwide are NEET: Not in Employment, Education or Training. Drawing on the latest ILO data, Niall O’Higgins, senior employment research specialist, explains how the NEET rate offers a more accurate...
Employment in Focus series
Beyond tourism: A policy framework for economic diversification and job creation in the Caribbean
The Caribbean faces persistent employment and economic challenges, due to its overreliance on tourism and demographic challenges. ILO Employment and labour market specialist, Abdelmalik Muhummed explores how National Employment Policies can support...
Employment in Focus series
Decent work in the Pacific: The role of policy-driven solutions
The Pacific faces enormous employment challenges. Christian Viegelahn, ILO’s Employment Specialist for the Pacific Island countries, explains how National Employment Policies (NEPs) can create decent jobs and positively impact the region's economies.
Beijing+30: Delivering on the promise
Why gender-responsive economic policies still matter
Thirty years after a global commitment to advance women's rights was taken in Beijing, women still face inequality in rights, wages, and job opportunities. ILO specialist Valeria Esquivel, explains how gender-responsive economic policies can improve...
"Employment in focus" series
How to adapt labour markets to changing demographics
As societies across the globe experience rapid demographic shifts, ageing populations and youth unemployment present interconnected challenges for labour markets. In this article, Dorothea Schmidt-Klau explores the need for a holistic,...
"Employment in focus" Blog
Reflecting on Brazil’s G20 Presidency: Tackling poverty, inequality and financing challenges
Kee Beom Kim, ILO Macro-Economic and Employment Policies Specialist, reflects on the G20 Brazilian Presidency’s initiatives to tackle the challenges of poverty, employment, inequality and financing.
Employment in Focus blog series
How to make productive and full employment a reality in an uncertain and complex world?
Employment policies need to address a number of critical forces, which lead to both challenges and opportunities, including the climate change crisis; digital transformation; and demographics in terms of both the implications of the youth bulge and...