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ILO / GLOBAL EMPLOYMENT TRENDS REPORT LAUNCH
STORY: ILO / GLOBAL EMPLOYMENT TRENDS REPORT LAUNCH
TRT: 2.03
SOURCE: ILO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 08 MAY 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
FILE – 2012, PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, Flag at the Palais des nations
08 MAY 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English) José-Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Assistant Director General for Policy, International Labor Organization (ILO):
“In this moment, there are a lot of risks and this is why, part of our message is, it’s very important for governments to do the additional investments in training and retraining. The great trap is to be out of the labour market, not be in some training and retraining education because the obsolescence of these skills is enormous.”
4. Cutaway, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) José-Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Assistant Director General for Policy, International Labor Organization (ILO):
“The statistics is very clear that the probability of getting job to the probability of actually getting employed by employers is higher in the first month or two but as you go higher beyond six months, beyond one year the curve totally comes down and there is very low probability, and you can really get trapped into a situation that effects not just your next job but that jobs that you can have in the future.”
6. Cutaway, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) José-Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Assistant Director General for Policy, International Labor Organization (ILO):
“Even though, in terms of the numbers, you might think that we’re not showing much new under the sky, it is a very bad situation. And the horizon is full of dark clouds for young people, unfortunately of course. The labour market doesn’t’ respond immediately to good news on the economic front, so even if there were good news, much better than we’re having on the economic front, many of these trends are structural, we also have this world chapter on skills mismatch.”
8. Cutaway, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sara Elder, Research Specialist, ILO Youth Employment Programme:
“I would really like to focus on this educational divide. The educational divide not only between the developed and the developing economies but also within developing economies themselves. The few available good jobs are available only to those who manage to stay in the educational system and these are mostly the young people that benefit from this growing middle class.”
10. Pan right, from speakers to journalists
An estimated 73 million young people will be out of work this year, according to a new United Nations (UN) report that says the long-term impact of the youth employment crisis could be felt for decades and calls for creative and wide-ranging policy solutions to address the problem.
The report, published by the International Labour Organization (ILO), states that the weakening of the global recovery in 2012 and 2013 has further aggravated the youth jobs crisis and the queues for available jobs have become longer and longer for some unfortunate young jobseekers.
Launching the report today (8 May) in Geneva José-Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the International Labor Organizations (ILO) Assistant Director General for Policy, told journalists that presently there were a lot of risks and that was why part of ILO’s message was that “it’s very important for governments to do the additional investments in training and retraining.”
Salazar-Xirinachs added that “The great trap is to be out of the labour market, not be in some training and retraining education because the obsolescence of these skills is enormous.”
The global youth unemployment rate, which had decreased from 12.7 per cent in 2009 to 12.3 per cent in 2011, increased again to 12.4 per cent in 2012, and has continued to grow to 12.6 per cent in 2013.
Youth unemployment and its scarring effects are particularly prevalent in three regions: developed economies and European Union, the Middle East and North Africa. In these regions, youth unemployment rates have continued to “soar” since 2008, says the report.
It adds that increasing numbers of youth are now turning to available part-time jobs or find themselves stuck in temporary employment. Secure jobs, which were once the norm for previous generations – at least in the advanced economies – have become less easily accessible for today’s youth.
Salazar-Xirinachs said that the statistics were very clear, “that the probability of getting job to the probability of actually getting employed by employers is higher in the first month or two but as you go higher beyond six months, beyond one year the curve totally comes down and there is very low probability, and you can really get trapped into a situation that effects not just your next job but that jobs that you can have in the future.”
By 2018 the global youth unemployment rate is projected to rise to 12.8 per cent, with growing regional disparities, as expected improvements in advanced economies will be offset by increases in youth unemployment in other regions, mainly in Asia.
He also said that although, in terms of the numbers, the situation doesn’t look too different, “it is a very bad situation.”
He added that “the horizon is full of dark clouds for young people, unfortunately of course. The labour market doesn’t’ respond immediately to good news on the economic front, so even if there were good news, much better than we’re having on the economic front, many of these trends are structural, we also have this world chapter on skills mismatch.”
And focusing on the educational divide Sarah Sara Elder, Research Specialist, at ILO’s Youth Employment Programme said that the few available good jobs were available only to those who manage to stay in the educational system and she added that “these are mostly the young people that benefit from this growing middle class.”
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