Employment Trends (EMP/TRENDS)

The Employment Trends Team’s core objective is to provide evidence-based labour market analysis using up-to-date, reliable  labour market information and statistics.

The EMP/TRENDS main programme areas include:

The Trends Team consists of economists, econometricians, database and software developers and administrative support staff based in Geneva. Team members work with ILO colleagues from the Department of Statistics and regional offices, particularly in the area of assisting member States to strengthen technical capacities in the area of labour market information and analysis.

What's new

  1. May 8, 2013

    The new study examines the continuing job crisis affecting young people in many parts of the world. It provides updated statistics on global and regional youth unemployment rates and presents ILO policy recommendations to curb the current trends.

  1. January 22, 2013

    Five years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, labour markets remain deeply depressed. Unemployment has started to rise again as the economic outlook worsens. The Global Employment Trends 2013 offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market and policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.

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    22 May, 2012

    In its report on the “Global Employment Trends for Youth 2012”, the ILO examines the continuing job crisis affecting young people in many parts of the world. It provides updated statistics on global and regional youth unemployment rates and presents ILO policy recommendations to curb the current trends. 

  3. Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM), Seventh Edition

    16 October 2011

    Published every two years since 1999, the KILM is a multi-functional research tool of the ILO consisting of country-level data on 18 key indicators of the labour market from 1980 to the latest available year, ranging from employment and variables relating to employment (status, sector, hours, etc.) to the lack of work and the characteristics of jobseekers, education, wages and compensation costs, labour productivity and working poverty. Taken together, the indicators give a strong foundation from which to begin addressing key questions related to productive employment and decent work.