Publications on youth employment

  1. Youth Employment and Migration in China

    20 November 2013

    With 1.35 billion people, China has the largest population in the world and a total working age population of 937 million. For historical and political reasons, full employment has been consistently high on the Government agenda.

  2. Youth Employment and Migration in Bosnia and Herzegovina

    20 November 2013

    Young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) aged 15 to 24 represent 16 per cent of the 3.8 million population of the country. In Bosnia and Herzegovina the overall unemployment rate in 2012 reached 28 per cent, while the youth unemployment rate (15-24 years of age) more than double the overall unemployment, at 63.1 per cent.

  3. Skills for Employment Policy Brief - Enhancing youth employability: the importance of core work skills

    18 November 2013

    Part of the Policy Brief Series produced by the Skills and Employability Branch

  4. Gender dimensions of national employment policies: A 24 country study

    18 November 2013

    EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 152

  5. The Social Dimensions of Free Trade Agreements

    06 November 2013

    The report provides a comprehensive review of all existing trade agreements that include social provisions and discusses impacts for enterprises and workers.It also helps assess the challenges for arising from the multiplication of trade agreements that include different social provisions.

  6. Labour market transitions of young women and men in Malawi

    31 October 2013

    This report presents the highlights of the 2012 School-to-work Transition Survey (SWTS) implemented by the National Statistics Office of the Republic of Malawi within the framework of the ILO Work4Youth Project.

  7. Labour market transitions of young women and men in Liberia

    30 October 2013

    This report presents the highlights of the 2012 School-to-work Transition Survey (SWTS) and Labour Demand Enterprise Survey (LDES)run together with the Liberian Institute of Statistics and Geo-information Services within the framework of the ILO Work4Youth project.

  8. Understanding the drivers of the youth labour market in Kenya

    30 September 2013

    This paper examines the macroeconomic and individual elements affecting youth unemployment and inactivity in Kenya with a view to discussing the elements that are important for the youth labour market challenges.

  9. Promoting green entrepreneurship among young women and men in Kenya

    18 September 2013

    The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) is a partnership between the Africa Commission, the Youth Employment Network and the ILO. Through training and business plan competition it promotes green entrepreneurship among young women and men in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda.

  10. Labour market transitions of young women and men in Cambodia

    17 September 2013

    This report presents the highlights of the 2012 School-to-work Transition Survey (SWTS)which was implemented, in Cambodia, by the National Institute of Statistics (NIS), Ministry of Planning, with funding from the ILO “Work4Youth” partnership with The MasterCard Foundation.