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ILO / YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
STORY: ILO / YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
TRT: 02:05
SOURCE: ILO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 9 MARCH 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / RECENT
1. Wide shot, press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sangheon Lee, Director, ILO Employment Policy Department:
“Our report shows that technology represents both opportunities and risks for young people in the labour market. Recent economy and political, and also the COVID-19 developments are likely to increase the risk factors and thus make youth employment worse in the coming years, rather than better.”
3. Wide shot, press conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sukti Dasgupta, Chief of the Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch of the ILO Employment Policy Department:
“Young people are already at a disadvantage in the labour market. We have a 13.6 percentage points unemployment rate for young people, which is higher than that for adults, almost double. But you also have a very large number of people in the NEET status: that is “not in education employment or training – 267 million young people in the NEET status.”
5. Close up, report
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sukti Dasgupta, Chief of the Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch of the ILO Employment Policy Department:
“Two out of three NEETs are women, so there is also a very complex gender story to what is happening to young people in the labour market.”
7. Wide shot, press conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sukti Dasgupta, Chief of the Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch of the ILO Employment Policy Department:
“In fact, one the main findings of this Global Employment Trends for Youth is that there are not enough, there are not sufficient jobs for young graduates in the labour market which is one reason that the wages at the top for young people are declining.”
9. Wide shot, press conference
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sukti Dasgupta, Chief of the Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch of the ILO Employment Policy Department:
“For young people today despite all the challenges in terms of finding jobs, having the right education, there are possibilities coming up in the care sector, for example, where you have ageing globally, which also means many new jobs will be needed, again if the right investments are made to ensure these jobs are decent. There are also possibilities coming up in the green sector, you know that we need to change the way that we produce, and we need to go towards more green production systems, which will create new jobs provided again we have the right skills.”
11. Close up, report
The number of young people currently not in employment, education or training (NEET) is rising, and young women are more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to be affected, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report.
Sangheon Lee, Director of the Employment Policy Department of the ILO, said, “our report shows that technology represents both opportunities and risks for young people in the labour market. Recent economy and political, and also the COVID-19 developments are likely to increase the risk factors and thus make youth employment worse in the coming years, rather than better.”
Young people (those aged 15-24) who are employed also face a greater risk than older workers of losing their jobs because of automation, and those with vocational training are particularly vulnerable, the report shows.
Sukti Dasgupta, Chief of the Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch of the ILO Employment Policy Department said, “young people are already at a disadvantage in the labour market. We have a 13.6 percentage points unemployment rate for young people, which is higher than that for adults, almost double. But you also have a very large number of people in the NEET status: that is “not in education employment or training – 267 million young people in the NEET status.”
Dasgupta said, “two out of three NEETs are women, so there is also a very complex gender story to what is happening to young people in the labour market.”
The report calls for vocational training programmes to be revised and modernized so that they meet the changing demands of the digital economy.
Dasgupta said, “in fact, one the main findings of this Global Employment Trends for Youth is that there are not enough, there are not sufficient jobs for young graduates in the labour market which is one reason that the wages at the top for young people are declining.”
The latest Global Employment Trends for Youth 2020: Technology and the future of jobs (GET Youth 2020) shows that, since the previous GET Youth report in 2017, an upward trend in NEET status has emerged. In 2016 there were 259 million young people classified as NEET, which rose to an estimated 267 million in 2019 and is projected to continue rising to 273 million in 2021. In percentage terms the trend also upwards – from 21.7 per cent in 2015 to 22.4 per cent in 2020. These trends imply that the target set by the international community to substantially reduce the NEET rate by 2020 will be missed.
Dasgupta said, “for young people today despite all the challenges in terms of finding jobs, having the right education, there are possibilities coming up in the care sector, for example, where you have ageing globally, which also means many new jobs will be needed, again if the right investments are made to ensure these jobs are decent. There are also possibilities coming up in the green sector, you know that we need to change the way that we produce, and we need to go towards more green production systems, which will create new jobs provided again we have the right skills.”
There are currently around 1.3 billion young people globally, of whom 267 million are classified as NEET. Two-thirds, or 181 million, of NEETs are young women.
GET Youth 2020 shows that those who do complete tertiary education are less likely to find their jobs replaced by automation. However, they face other issues because the rapid rise in the number of young people with a degree in the labour force has outpaced the demand for graduate labour, pushing down graduate wages.
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