News, articles and events on youth employment
March 2020
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Young people are far more likely to be in working poverty
16 October 2019
While absolute poverty and working poverty rates have fallen, there are still major disparities across age groups, genders and countries.
August 2017
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How to get more young people into better jobs
10 August 2017
New ILO book focuses on the global challenge of youth unemployment and proposes policies to create more decent jobs for young women and men.
March 2016
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Labour Market Transitions of Young Women and Men: Innovative research from 30 school-to-work transition survey datasets
An international forum for sharing results of the second ILO’s Call for Papers on labour market transition of young women and men in developing countries. The Symposium, organized in partnership with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), offers an opportunity for researchers and development practitioners to discuss innovative research on themes of youth employment and labour market transitions and applicability to policy and programme advice and implementation.
August 2015
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Labour Market Transitions of Young Women and Men: Innovative research from 30 ‘school-to-work transition survey’ (SWTS) datasets
06 August 2015
The ILO “Work4Youth” Project and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) invite researchers to submit proposals for innovative research papers relevant to labour market transitions of young women and men in developing countries, making use of one or several of the recent “school-to-work transition survey (SWTS)” datasets from 30 countries. The deadline for submission is Wednesday 30 September 2015.
February 2015
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Labour Market Transitions of Young Women and Men: Innovative research from 28 School-to-Work Transition Surveys
An international forum for sharing results of the ILO’s Call for Papers on labour market transition of young women and men in developing countries. The Symposium offers an opportunity for researchers and development practitioners to discuss innovative research on themes of youth employment and labour market transitions and applicability to policy and programme advice and implementation.