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Technical brief

Early intervention measures and youth employment

This brief reviews the implementation of early intervention measures within national YG plans and analyses the interactions between prevention and curative policies and their effectiveness in addressing the difficulties young people face at...

Learning module

Social cost-benefit analysis of Youth Guarantees: Learning modules

This package – available in English - provides a hand-on approach to measure the social cost and benefits of youth employment interventions. It aims to increase understanding of how this type of analysis works, the results it generates, and the use...

Technical brief

Profile of young NEETs in Portugal

This brief explores the individual characteristics of young people in the NEET category, geographical distribution and probability of inactivity (by individual characteristics and regional distribution). It is based on the analysis of micro-data...

Brochure

Brochure ILO-EC Joint Action on the Youth Guarantee

Document

Indicator framework for monitoring the Youth Guarantee

This document summarizes the monitoring indicators that member States are required to report on for the implementation of the actions envisaged by the Youth Guarantee Implementation Plan.

Document

Basic principles of monitoring and evaluation

The aim of this document is to introduce readers to the basic principles of monitoring and evaluation

Presentation

Early intervention

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Presentation

Indirect (negative) effects of Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs)

Presentation, Riga 12-13 April 2016

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Data for impact evaluation

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Design and targeting of youth employment programmes: what works?

Presentation, Riga 12-13 April 2016

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"Good quality" offers of employment, traineeship, apprenticeship and continued education

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Activation strategies

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Outreach strategies for inactivve youth

Presentation, Lisbon 3 August 2016

Technical brief

Profiling youth labour market disadvantage: A technical note

This brief shows that developing a profiling system can be useful for targeting those population groups (and also individuals) that are more likely to be disadvantaged in the labour market.

Technical brief

The Youth Guarantee in Europe: Estimating costs and number of beneficiaries

This brief presents a methodology for estimating the social and economic costs and assessing the potential benefits of the national YG Plans. It has been developed in order to support member States that were engaged in the development of their youth...

Guidelines

Guidelines to analyze the performance of national youth guarantees

The aim of these guidelines is to provide member States with a template framework for the collection and analysis of monitoring data on all the policy areas of the Youth Guarantee. This template uses, as far as possible, the indicators designed by...

Training package

Monitoring the performance of the Youth Guarantee: A learning package

The aim of this learning package is to offer easy-to-use tools to policymakers and practitioners with the view to monitoring the performance of youth employment policy and programmes. This package can be used to develop training sessions on concepts...

Social protection

ILO Director-General endorses Belgian campaign on social protection for all

In his keynote speech at the Belgian Federal Parliament, the ILO Director-General underlined that social protection is an investment that makes good sense, both from an economic and social perspective.

Active labour market policies in the EU

At a public hearing in the European Parliament, Steven Tobin discussed some key considerations for implementing effective active labour market policies (ALMPs) in the EU.

Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union

Completing the Economic and Monetary Union: what it means for Belgium

On December 1, the Representation of the European Commission (EC) in Belgium organized a high-level conference on "Completing the Economic and Monetary Union: challenges and opportunities for Belgium".