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ILO / EMPLOYMENT TRENDS
STORY: ILO / EMPLOYMENT TRENDS
TRT: 2.22
SOURCE: ILO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 JANUARY 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
FILE – RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Aerial view Palais des Nations
21 JANUARY 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Close up, Global Employment Trends 2013 report
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General:
“After two years of decline in the number of unemployed around the world, 2012 saw a resurgence of unemployment up by 4.2 million worldwide.”
4. Med shot, reporters with dais in background
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General:
“A quarter of that increase in unemployment is to be found in the advanced-industrialized economies, but it of course is not confined, and there are marked negative effects in other developing regions, most notably East and South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.”
6. Med shot, reporters
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General:
“Our projection would be for 5.1 million more in 2013, and still a further three million in 2014. So the trends are very much in the wrong direction.”
8. Pan left, press room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General:
“Young people remain at the very sharp end of the jobs crisis, particularly badly affected by it. Our estimations are of just under 74 million young people unemployed globally, and in line with what I’ve just said, there could be another half million added to that figure by 2014.”
10. Med shot, reporters with dais in background
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General:
“Uncertainty, we think of the Eurozone policy controversies, and we think also of fiscal questions in the United States that needs to give way and play more coherent and predictable policy orientation, and one that places employment at the centre of policy making, in a manner that is in line with previous commitments, but not so much with previous action.”
FILE –ILO – RECENT, ATHENS, GREECE
12. Wide shot, exterior employment agency
13. Various shots, interior employment agency
FILE –ILO – RECENT, MADRID, SPAIN
14. Med shot, unemployed man with sign in Spanish asking for help
15. Zoom out, man entering employment agency
16. Various shots, interior employment agency
Unemployment increased by a further 4.2 million over the course of 2012, according to the Global Employment Trends 2013 report released today (21 January) in Geneva.
The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Guy Ryder, told reporters that “after two years of decline in the number of unemployed around the world, 2012 saw a resurgence of unemployment.”
The report examines the crisis in labour markets of both advanced economies and developing economies.
The epicentre of the crisis has been the advanced economies, accounting for half of the total increase in unemployment of 28 million since the onset of the crisis. But the pronounced double dip in the advanced economies has had significant spill-overs into the labour markets of developing economies as well.
Ryder said only a quarter of the latest increase of 4 million in global unemployment in 2012 has been in the advanced economies, while three quarters has been in other regions, with “marked negative effects in other developing regions, most notably East and South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.”
Looking at 2013, the ILO Director-General said “the trends are very much in the wrong direction.”
The report projects a further 5.1 million joining the ranks of the unemployed this year and a further 3 million in 2014.
Ryder said young people “remain at the very sharp end of the jobs crisis, particularly badly affected by it.”
The estimations, he said, are of “just under 74 million young people unemployed globally”, and “there could be another half million added to that figure by 2014.”
In percentage terms, 12.6 percent of youths around the world remain unemployed
The final chapter of the report urges a policy rethink in order to achieve a more sustained recovery in 2013 and beyond.
Ryder said uncertainty in policy making needs to “give way and play more coherent and predictable policy orientation”, placing employment “at the centre of policy making, in a manner that is in line with previous commitments, but not so much with previous action.”
The report estimates the quantitative and qualitative indicators of global and regional labour markets and discusses the macroeconomic factors affecting the labour markets in order to explore possible policy responses.
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