Youth employment
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Youth employment

   

Youth Employment Programme 

Of the world's estimated 207 million unemployed people in 2010, nearly 40 per cent – about 75 million – were between 15 and 24 years of age. In many countries, this grim unemployment picture is further aggravated by the large number of youth engaged in poor quality and low paid jobs, often in the informal economy. Many youth are poor or underemployed: some 228 million working poor youth in the world, live on less than the equivalent of US$ 2 per day.

Through a global network of employment specialists, the ILO Programme on Youth Employment (YEP) provides assistance to countries in developing consistent and coordinated policies and programmes on youth employment. This integrated approach combines macro-economic policies and targeted measures which address labour demand and supply, as well as the quantity and quality of employment.
 

What's new

  1. Youth Employment - Good Practices
    May 2012

    The ILO Youth Employment Programme has launched a call for nominations of good practices that have proven effective in promoting decent work for young people.

  2. APYN Podcast - Young people speak out - Youth Employment Month in Asia (May 2012)
    April 2012

    In this programme, participants and organizers from the national youth employment consultation events organized under the ILO's Youth Employment Month, share their events' messages and how these feed into the upcoming Global Youth Forum (23-25 May 2012).

  3. Global Youth Consultations
    March-April 2012

    The ILO is holding events in more than 40 countries around the world throughout March and April 2012 to hear young people’s views on the alarming youth employment situation.

  4. “Partnerships for more & better jobs for Young People”
    February 2012

    Statement by Jose M. Salazar-Xirinachs

  5. Partnerships for decent work for youth
    February 2012

    Youth Employment Note

  6. Breaking ground: Partnerships for more and better jobs for young people
    February 2012

    The ILO co-organized an event to strengthen the partnership between governments and the private sector in advancing youth employment and decent work.

  7. United Nations World Youth Report 2012
    February 2012

    The United Nations in collaboration with the ILO has launched the 2012 World Youth Report in New York (Launch Event). The report “Youth Employment: youth perspectives on the pursuit of decent work in changing times” contains youth views on decent work that were collected through online consultations with young people from all over the world.

  8. Somavia puts the accent on youth employment in Davos
    January 2012

    ILO Director-General Juan Somavia has called for a new policy paradigm to promote inclusive job-rich growth for the almost 75 million unemployed youth aged 15-24 worldwide.

Key resources

  1. Global Employment Trends for Youth: 2011 update
  2. Youth employment in Eastern Europe: Crisis within the crisis
  3. Policy options to support young workers during economic recovery
  4. Global Employment Trends for Youth, August 2010
  5. Youth employment : a global goal, a national challenge
  6. School-to-work transition survey: A methodological guide
  7. Brochure - Breaking gender barriers for young women and men
  8. Guide for the preparation of national action plans on youth employment
  9. Youth employment
  10. Youth : pathways to decent work : promoting youth employment - tackling the challenge
  11. Resolution concerning Youth Employment
  12. Starting right : decent work for young people (TMYEWF/2004)
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