Resources on Employment trends and labour market information

  1. Jobs and Skills Mismatch – Job-rich growth for Sustainable Development

    On 27-28 November 2017, the Employment Policy Department will bring together researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders to review and discuss on-going research on demand for jobs and bottlenecks in developed and developing countries.

  2. Global Employment Trends 2014: The risk of a jobless recovery

    21 January 2014

    The Global Employment Trends study offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. The weak global economic recovery has failed to lead to an improvement in global labour markets, with global unemployment in 2013 reaching almost 202 million. Embargoed until 00.01 GMT - 21 January 2014

  3. Global Employment Trends 2014: The risk of a jobless recovery

    21 January 2014

    The study offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment.

  4. Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM)

    11 December 2013

    A multi-functional research tool of the ILO consisting of country-level data on 18 key indicators of the labour market from 1980 to the latest available year.

  5. The Philippines Employment Projections Model: Employment targeting and scenarios

    15 May 2013

    Employment Working Paper No. 140

  6. How not to count the employed in developing countries

    29 January 2013

    Employment Working Paper No. 136

  7. Global Employment Trends 2013: Recovering from a second jobs dip

    22 January 2013

    Five years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the study offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.

  8. Global Employment Trends 2013: Recovering from a second jobs dip [Summary]

    22 January 2013

    Five years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the study offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.

  9. Guide to the Millennium Development Goals Employment Indicators, second edition

    03 January 2013

  10. Global Employment Outlook September 2012: Bleak Labour Market Prospects for Youth

    04 September 2012

    This update of the Global Employment Trends Report 2012 shows that jobless rates among young people will get even worse globally as the spillover of the euro crisis spreads from advanced to emerging economies.