ILO Working paper 50

Crowdwork for young people: Risks and opportunities

21 February 2022

Publication

Youth employment in times of COVID

21 January 2022

A global review of COVID-19 policy responses to tackle (un)employment and disadvantage among young people.

Publication

Youth employment in conflict and fragile settings (Elisa Selva and Federico Negro)

07 May 2021

Is the future ready for youth? Youth employment policies for evolving labour markets

Book

Is the future ready for youth?

18 March 2021

How do we ensure that the policymakers and the global community prioritize youth employment, so essential for sustainable development and social justice? This book brings together contributions from ILO with broad global experience in successful youth employment policies. They discuss the policies needed to address the challenge, in a time of rapid transformation, of achieving a better future for the youth.

Research brief

COVID-19 and rising wage inequality: Trends and challenges in Thailand and Viet Nam

27 January 2021

This brief presents quantitative trends in wage inequality in Thailand and Viet Nam during the COVID-19 crisis in 2020. Based on various measures, it highlights the rise of inequality as wages have been increasingly concentrated among the highest wage earners and the disproportionate impact of lower wages on informal workers, youth and workers with lower educational qualifications. It presents a number of policy measures including enhanced wage support and active labour market policies to counter these dynamics.

ILO Working Paper 19

Trends and new developments in employment services to support transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa Regions

16 December 2020

This paper presents the findings of a survey undertaken in selected countries in the Sub Saharan Africa and Middle East and North Africa regions (SSA and MENA) aimed at reviewing the status of employment service provision, challenges and opportunities for their development.

Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth

Growing green: Fostering a green entrepreneurial ecosystem for youth

21 September 2020

The research reviews the entrepreneurial ecosystem to assess capacity to foster young green entrepreneurship and to address the social and environmental challenges.

ILO Working Paper 8

Youth Aspirations and the Future of Work: A Review of the Literature and Evidence

14 September 2020

This report was undertaken as part of the ILO Future of Work project and aims to (i) review the literature on the concepts and drivers of aspirations; (ii) develop a conceptual framework that relates labour market conditions to aspirations; (iii) map the existing survey-based evidence on the aspirations of youth worldwide; and (iv) provide insights into how to improve data collection, research and evidence-based policy-making related to young persons aspirations.

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 253

Youth transitions and lifetime trajectory

17 January 2020

Publication

The Youth Transition To Formality

14 January 2020