Global employment trends for youth 2006

Improving labour market conditions for young people

By: Elder S & Schmidt D
Published by: International Labour Organization (ILO) , 2006
Via: Eldis

This report analyses labour market conditions for young people and identifies barriers that can stand in the way of realising global commitments to improving youth employment options. It highlights the importance of focusing on youth and provides the ingredients from which strategies can be developed to tackle one of the most urgent and widely recognised global challenges.

This second Global Employment Trends for Youth updates the world and regional youth labour market indicators presented in the first Global Employment Trends for Youth (2004) report. However section two of the report goes beyond this to investigate the relationship between the lack of decent employment opportunities and poverty to explain why many young people remain poor despite the fact that they work. Section three of the report also offers a more in-depth analysis of factors that explain one of the worrying indicators ? inactivity ? and the reasons for its increase in recent years. This section also offers a framework for identifying youth who are more vulnerable to getting stuck in labour market situations that will be detrimental to their own future development and to that of the economy at large.

Section five focuses on the school-to-work transition to help countries pinpoint the specific challenges that young men and women face when entering the world of work so that the most appropriate policy mix can be determined to redress the situation within countries.