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Data produced by the international organizations and countries on trends in skills provision, demand, and employment outcomes to help inform policy-making and monitoring processes.

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Leveraging migration for Africa: Remittances, skills, and investments

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Leveraging migration for Africa: Remittances, skills, and investments

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Information is gathered from other international organizations that promote skills development and the transition from education and training to work. The Interagency Group on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (IAG-TVET) was established in 2009 to share research findings, coordinate joint research endeavours, and improve collaboration among organizations working at the international and national levels.

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Migrant workers

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According to the ILO global estimates on migrant workers, there were around 164 million migrant workers in 2017.

Migrant workers contribute to growth and development in their countries of destination, while countries of origin greatly benefit from their remittances and the skills acquired during their migration experience. Yet, many migrant workers face challenges in accessing quality training and decent jobs including under-utilization of skills, a lack of employment or training opportunities, lack of information, and exploitation of low-skilled workers.

To address these challenges, countries need to strengthen skills anticipation systems to inform migration policies, increase access to education and training, and establish bilateral or multilateral recognition of qualifications and skills.

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Research papers

Working papers, reports, and other publications from international organizations, academic institutions and bilateral agencies. Research findings to stimulate informed debate on skills, employment and productivity issues.

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Data produced by the international organizations and countries on trends in skills provision, demand, and employment outcomes to help inform policy-making and monitoring processes.

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09 May 2013

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wcmstest4_044840.pdf

A joint effort led by the African Development Bank and the World Bank, the publication focuses on harnessing migration, remittances, and other diaspora resources for the development of Africa. It comes at a time when countries in Africa and elsewhere are grappling with difficult choices on how to manage migration. Policy makers can help leverage the contributions of migrants to the development of Africa, reduce remittance costs, improve the efficiency of remittance markets in both origin and destination countries, and address the needs of the origin countries without restricting the emigration of high-skilled professionals. Innovative financing mechanisms such as issuance of diaspora bonds and securitization of future remittance flows can help finance big-ticket projects, such as railways, roads, power plants, and institutions of higher learning that will, step by step, help to transform Africa. This volume contributes to a greater understanding of migration and its potential role in Africa’s development.

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Economic and social development

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Gender equality

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Africa

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Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013: A generation at risk

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Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013: A generation at risk

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ILO

The International Labour Organization is the tripartite U.N. agency that promotes Decent Work through employment, social security, labour standards and social dialogue. Its work on skills development is guided by the conceptual framework on Skills to improve productivity, employment growth, and development agreed in 2008 by representatives of Governments, Employers’ Associations and Workers’ Associations. Research, policy advice, and pilot projects and technical cooperation programmes to apply good practices in different circumstances across its 185 member States aims to boost the employability of workers, the productivity and competitiveness of enterprises, and the inclusiveness of economic growth. The ILO Secretariat in offices in 40 countries works with Ministries of Labour, employers’ organizations, and trade unions to integrate skills development into national and sector development strategies in order to better meet current labour market needs and to prepare for the jobs of the future; to expand access to employment-related training so that youth, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups are better able to acquire skills and secure productive and decent work; and to improve the ability of public employment services to provide career guidance, maintain labour exchange services, and deliver active labour market programmes.For more information regarding the ILO’s work on skills and employability go to: http://www.ilo.org/skills/lang--en/index.htm; for ILO/Cinterfor's Knowledge Management Plarform, see: http://www.oitcinterfor.org

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Youth employability

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Globally, nearly 68 million young women and men are looking for and available for work, and an estimated 123 million young people are working but living in poverty. The number who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) stands at 267 million, a majority of whom are young women. Significantly, young people are three times as likely as adults (25 years and older) to be unemployed.

Skills development is a primary means of enabling young people to make a smooth transition to work. A comprehensive approach is required to integrate young women and men in the labour market, including relevant and quality skills training, labour market information, career guidance and employment services, recognition of prior learning, incorporating entrepreneurship with training and effective skills forecasting. Improved basic education and core work skills are particularly important to enable youth to engage in lifelong learning as well as transition to the labour market.

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Data produced by the international organizations and countries on trends in skills provision, demand, and employment outcomes to help inform policy-making and monitoring processes.

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Publication Date:

09 May 2013

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The study examines the continuing job crisis affecting young people in many parts of the world. It provides updated statistics on global and regional youth unemployment rates and explores, among others, the issue of skills mismatch on youth labour markets that has become a persistent and growing trend. It argues that overeducation and over-skilling coexist with undereducation and under-skilling, and increasingly with skills obsolescence brought about by long-term unemployment. The study presents ILO policy recommendations to curb the current trends.

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Employability

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employability

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Poverty

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poverty

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School-to-work transition

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school-to-work-transition

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Skills mismatch

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skills-mismatch

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Youth unemployment

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Global

Openness and technological innovation in East Asia: Have they increased the demand for skills?

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															Openness and technological innovation in East Asia: Have they increased the demand for skills?
													

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Data produced by the international organizations and countries on trends in skills provision, demand, and employment outcomes to help inform policy-making and monitoring processes.

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06 May 2013

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wcmstest4_044040.pdf

This paper examines whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. The author explores a unique firm level data set across eight countries in Asia and the Pacific region. The results strongly support the idea that greater openness and technological innovation have increased the demand for skills, especially in middle-income countries. In particular, while the presence in international markets has been skill enhancing for most middle-income countries, this is not the case for manufacturing firms operating in China and in low-income countries. The author interprets this to support the premise that if international integration in the region continues to intensify and technology continues to be skilled biased, policies aimed at mitigating the skills shortages should produce continual and persistent increase in skills.

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Enterprises

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enterprises

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175

Information and communication technologies

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information-and-communication-technologies

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346

Skills upgrading

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skills-upgrading

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657

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Asia and the Pacific

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Regional contribution to statistical information system development for technical and vocational education and training: Diagnosis and comparative analysis for identifying quality improvement strategies

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															Regional contribution to statistical information system development for technical and vocational education and training: Diagnosis and comparative analysis for identifying quality improvement strategies
													

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Data produced by the international organizations and countries on trends in skills provision, demand, and employment outcomes to help inform policy-making and monitoring processes.

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statistical-information

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30 Apr 2013

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wcmstest4_043635.pdf

The publication presents the status of the statistical information system (SIS) on technical and vocational education and training in Africa. It provides an analysis of SIS in various African countries and proposes strategies in order to improve availability and quality of data.

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TVET systems

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Africa

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Quality education for quality jobs

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Quality education for quality jobs

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English

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Workers' organizations

Learning new skills and upgrading existing ones help workers maintain their employability and improve their standard of living. Trade unions play a key role in increasing workplace-based training opportunities. The Global KSP shares, among other resource items, case studies, good practices and research provided by trade unions that highlight their involvement in promoting training at individual workplaces, social dialogue and collective bargaining on skills issues, and participating in developing skills policies and strengthening training institutions.

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Participation of employers' and workers' organizations

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The world of learning and the world of work are separate but linked. While one involves learning, the other produces goods and services. Neither can thrive without the other. Strong partnerships between government, employers and workers help ensure the relevance of training to the changing needs of enterprises and labour markets.

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Training quality and relevance

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Data produced by the international organizations and countries on trends in skills provision, demand, and employment outcomes to help inform policy-making and monitoring processes.

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Publication Date:

23 Apr 2013

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The present report is aimed at providing a general overview of the education/training, labour market and social situation of young people in Europe. It provides an overview of European education and training, including major developments, and summarises the results of a survey conducted among ETUC affiliates between September and November 2011. This survey investigated the social partners' perspectives on youth transitions and had three main objectives: (1) to gauge the extent to which trade unions were aware of and involved in youth transitions from school to work; (ii) to raise the topical issues of traineeships and get the social partners' points of view; (iii) to explore the most important concerns and to promote exchange of good practices on the occasion of the ETUC Youth Committee Conference (Krakow 2011).

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internships

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School-to-work transition

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school-to-work-transition

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Skills mismatch

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skills-mismatch

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654

Survey

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survey

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611

Vocational training

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vocational-training

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124

Youth

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youth

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319

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Europe and Central Asia

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Trends in job skill demands in OECD countries

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Trends in job skill demands in OECD countries

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English

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Research papers

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Statistical information

Data produced by the international organizations and countries on trends in skills provision, demand, and employment outcomes to help inform policy-making and monitoring processes.

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statistical-information

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05 Apr 2013

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wcmstest4_037826.pdf

OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, No. 143 This report examines skill trends in 24 OECD countries over the past several decades. The skill measures used include broad occupation groups, country-specific direct measures of skill requirements from international surveys, and direct skill measures from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database applied to both United States and European labour force surveys.

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Disability at a Glance 2012: Strengthening the evidence base in Asia and the Pacific

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															Disability at a Glance 2012: Strengthening the evidence base in Asia and the Pacific
													

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English

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Other sources

Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.

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People with disabilities

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Of an estimated 1 billion people with disabilities in the world today, some 785 million are of working age. While many are successfully employed and fully integrated into society, most face a disproportionate level of poverty and unemployment. This is a massive loss both to them and their countries. A strategy of including people with disabilities in training and employment promotion policies, combined with targeted supports to ensure their participation, can help disabled persons obtain productive mainstream employment.

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people-with-disabilities

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National policies and initiatives

National legislation, policies and initiatives on the issue of training and skills development and the world of work.

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Data produced by the international organizations and countries on trends in skills provision, demand, and employment outcomes to help inform policy-making and monitoring processes.

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04 Apr 2013

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wcmstest4_037427.pdf

The Disability at a Glance series, which started in 2006, serves as a companion for policymakers, statisticians and representatives of organizations of, and for, persons with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific. These publications aim to provide a regional overview of disability policies and practices, as well as relevant country data and information.

The fourth edition, Disability at a Glance 2012: Strengthening the Evidence Base in Asia and the Pacific continues this tradition. It highlights the complexity of interpreting disability data and stresses the urgent need to work towards a greater common understanding of disability, related data and data collection practices.

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Economic and social development

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economic-and-social-development

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125

People with disabilities

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people-with-disabilities

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Asia and the Pacific

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Participation in formal TVET programmes worldwide: An initial statistical study

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Participation in formal TVET programmes worldwide: An initial statistical study

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English

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english

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Research papers

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research-papers

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Data produced by the international organizations and countries on trends in skills provision, demand, and employment outcomes to help inform policy-making and monitoring processes.

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statistical-information

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20 Mar 2013

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wcmstest4_034027.pdf

The report "Participation in Formal Technical and Vocational Education and Training Programmes Worldwide - An Initial Statistical Study" aims to stimulate an important process to fill the information gap existing in the area of comparable quantitative data and indicators on global TVET participation.

It presents one of the most comprehensive statistical analyses to date of enrolments in formal technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in the world. It is an international, comparative study that describes access to formal TVET by level, age and gender.

The report addresses three main questions:
What statistical data currently exists on formal TVET in the world?
What are the potential benefits and limitations of statistical analyses of existing data?
What are the next steps towards the improvement of TVET data collection and analysis?

The target audience for the report includes TVET policymakers, donors, researchers, practitioners, administrators and education planners.

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Apprenticeships

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TVET systems

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tvet-systems

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Africa

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World Development Report 2013: Jobs

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World Development Report 2013: Jobs

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English

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Skills policies and strategies

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Skills and employment policies should be viewed together. The full value of one policy set is realized when it supports the objectives of the other. For investments in education and training to yield maximum benefit to workers, enterprises, and economies, countries’ capacities for coordination is critical in three areas: connecting basic education to technical training and then to market entry; ensuring continuous communication between employers and training providers so that training meets the needs and aspirations of workers and enterprises, and integrating skills development policies with industrial, investment, trade, technology, environmental, rural and local development policies.

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Data produced by the international organizations and countries on trends in skills provision, demand, and employment outcomes to help inform policy-making and monitoring processes.

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12 Feb 2013

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wcmstest4_026827.pdf

The World Development Report 2013, adopting a cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary approach, looks at why some jobs do more for development than others. The report tackles some of the most pressing questions policy makers are asking right now: Should countries design their development strategies around growth or focus on jobs? Are there situations where the focus should be on protecting jobs as opposed to protecting workers? Which needs to come first in the development process— creating jobs or building skills?

The report finds that efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do, as more productive jobs appear, and as less productive ones disappear. Societies flourish as jobs foster diversity and provide alternatives to conflict.

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Gender equality

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gender-equality

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144

Policy convergence

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policy-convergence

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674

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poverty-alleviation

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149

Private sector

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private-sector

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229

Productivity

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productivity

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188

Skills mismatch

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skills-mismatch

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654

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Global

Global Employment Trends 2013: Recovering From a Second Jobs Dip

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Document

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Global Employment Trends 2013: Recovering From a Second Jobs Dip

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English

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english

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skpEng

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ILO

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skpILO

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ilo

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Training quality and relevance

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skpTrainQR

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training-quality-and-relevance

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Research papers

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skpRPS

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research-papers

Statistical information

Data produced by the international organizations and countries on trends in skills provision, demand, and employment outcomes to help inform policy-making and monitoring processes.

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statistical-information

Publication Date:

29 Jan 2013

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fm11g_014615.pdf

Includes promising areas for policy actions to aid in the recovery of the second jobs dip, among them, addressing skills mismatches, and enhancing youth employability. Global Employment Trends 2013 highlights how the crisis is increasingly raising trend unemployment rates, partly driven by sectoral shifts of jobs that had been triggered by the crisis. Despite historically low interest rates in many advanced economies, investment and employment have not shown tangible signs of recovery. Depressed growth prospects have started to spread to the developing world, where low productivity and wage growth continues to remain an issue in most regions, preventing improvements in employment and disposable incomes, in particular among poorer countries, and adding to a rise in global inequality.
The report argues that in countries with high and rising unemployment, job guarantee programmes for targeted labour market groups should be the preferred policy measure. Moreover, rising labour market discouragement and structural unemployment should be tackled with new skills and training initiatives to help jobseekers find employment in alternative industries and to promote their employability more broadly. Other possible areas of intervention are further investments in public infrastructure in developing countries and a swift implementation of financial market regulation to help stabilize the macroeconomic environment and stimulate job creation.

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