Publications on youth employment

  1. 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

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

    18 November 2013

    EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 152

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Employment and Migration in Serbia

    12 August 2013

    Serbia counts more than 800,000 young people between the ages of 15 and 24 – 52 per cent men and 48 per cent women – which is almost 18% of the overall working age population. These young Serbians face great labour market challenges. The employment rate for youth aged 15-24, just above 15 per cent, is three times lower than for the working-age population (47 per cent). With an unemployment rate reaching 46 per cent, the young generation is also more than twice as likely to be unemployed as the overall working-age population, which faces an unemployment rate of 20 per cent.

  10. Youth Employment and Migration in Albania

    12 August 2013

    With a mean age of 30 and 25 per cent of the population in the 15-29 age group, Albania is one of Europe’s youngest countries. However, due to declining mortality and fertility rates over the past decades, Albania’s population is expected to age significantly over the coming years. The Albanian labour market faces problems that are common to most transition economies. The loss of jobs in the industrial sector in the 1990s was not counterbalanced by the weak expansion of the service sector, while agriculture and informal employment act as outlets to relieve labour market pressures.