Publications on youth employment

  1. Skills 21 Bulletin Issue 3, April 2021

    15 April 2021

    The bulletin aims to inform the wider audience about the activities undertaken by the Skills 21 project for Technical and Vocational Education and Training on a certain thematic issues. It also presents selected news from the partner TVET institutes of the project is working with.

  2. 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.

  3. Skills 21 Bulletin Issue 2, November 2020

    05 November 2020

    The bulletin aims to inform the wider audience about the activities undertaken by the Skills 21 project for Technical and Vocational Education and Training on a certain thematic issues. It also presents selected news from the partner TVET institutes of the project is working with.

  4. Tackling the COVID-19 youth employment crisis in Asia and the Pacific

    18 August 2020

    Young people’s employment prospects in Asia and the Pacific are severely challenged as a result of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Youth (15–24 years) will be hit harder than adults (25 and older) in the immediate crisis and also risk bearing higher longer-term economic and social costs, says a joint ILO-ADB report.

  5. Youth & COVID-19: Impacts on jobs, education, rights and mental well-being

    11 August 2020

    Executive Summary of the survey report

  6. Features of Centre for Skills Excellence

    19 May 2020

    ILO’s EU funded Skills 21 project is transforming two teachers training centre into ‘Centre for Skills Excellence(CSE)’. In the process of establishing a centre of excellence, the institutes can be elevated from "good" to "great" by providing expert trainers, researchers, facilities, and equipment. These centres will become a model of best practice in TVET and skills development.

  7. Features of Model TVET Institutes

    19 May 2020

    ILO’s EU funded Skills 21 project is transforming seven TVET institutes into ‘model’ training institutions that will be more inclusive, environmentally-conscious and better integrated with local economies/industry. This publication is showing the features that transform these institutes into a 'model TVET'

  8. Skills 21 Bulletin Issue 1, May 2020

    19 May 2020

    The bulletin aims to inform the wider audience about the activities undertaken by the Skills 21 project for Technical and Vocational Education and Training on a certain thematic issues. It also presents selected news from the partner TVET institutes of the project is working with.

  9. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and employment policies in the Philippines

    23 March 2020

  10. Inventory of Asia-Pacific national responses to demographic change

    11 September 2019

    Annex 2 of the “Preparing for the future of work: National policy responses in ASEAN +6” report presents an inventory of policies, strategies and programmes adopted or undertaken by the governments of ASEAN +6 countries in response to demographic changes, with a particular focus on their links to the labour market.