Publications on youth employment

  1. Youth labour market resilience during the COVID-19 crisis in three middle-income countries

    02 March 2022

    Young people have been especially hard hit by the COVID-19 crisis. Despite support provided by governments, many young people had to rely on their individual capabilities and resources to adapt and react to these difficult times.

  2. An uneven and gender-unequal COVID-19 recovery: Update on gender and employment trends 2021

    26 October 2021

    The COVID-19 crisis caused unprecedented job losses, hitting women the hardest, particularly in middle-income countries. The COVID-19 recovery is proving both uneven and gender-unequal, as women’s employment recovery is lagging behind men’s.

  3. GirlForce: Skills, Education and Training for Girls Now

    11 October 2018

  4. Gender and the informal economy: Key challenges and policy response

    22 December 2017

    EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 236

  5. Gender in employment policies and programmes: What works for women?

    11 December 2017

    EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 235

  6. Illustrated guidelines for gender-responsive employment intensive investment programmes

    15 March 2016

    This guide is the outcome of a study carried out on gender and public works, and has been developed using evidence from 43 EIIPs implemented in 27 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America between 1995 and 2013.

  7. Differences in the effects of vocational training on men and women: Constraints on women and drop-out behaviour

    30 November 2015

    EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 189

  8. Enhancing women’s entrepreneurship in Kenya: Initial qualitative assessment of the ILO’s GET Ahead business training programme

    30 November 2015

    EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 188

  9. Why should AIDS be part of the Africa Development Agenda?

    04 February 2015

    African leaders have the power to create a future of opportunity for their people by accelerating implementation of their commitment to ending AIDS in a new road map grounded in principles of social justice and inclusive growth.

  10. Reaffirming and promoting rights during transition: development results 2012-2013

    30 June 2014

    By looking at a narrow set of indicators, such as the rate of privatization, trade openness, debt, inflation and foreign direct investment, most analysts had concluded that Arab countries were on the right track economically in the lead up to the Arab uprisings.