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Enhancing EI-funded training programs would improve their uptake and help workers who earn little or are vulnerable to job loss and precarious work. 
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Interactive report takes a first-ever look at seven categories of jobless Americans, their diverse needs, and the solutions that can help connect them to work.
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Most European scholars look to the United States for transferable ideas; this author argues that Canada is a more salient comparator, given that it has similar institutional features to the EU, and has successfully managed a pan-Canadian unemployment insurance benefits scheme for over 75 years. Lessons for the EU from Canada include the place of a centrally managed unemployment insurance programme in a monetary union, and insights with respect to stabilisation, labour mobility, redistribution, social solidarity, legitimacy, and institutional moral hazard.
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Despite falling unemployment levels in some developed economies, new analysis shows the global job crisis is not likely to end, especially in emerging economies.
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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
Governors of the Bank of Canada don’t often become notorious, but that’s exactly what has happened to Stephen Poloz when he recommended that unemployed young people take unpaid work.
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At a time when the international community is struggling to generate more jobs, especially for young people, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged Governments to invest more in youth employment initiatives and promote decent work for all.
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Founder of the African Leadership Academy, Fred Swaniker, encourages Africa to empower its young people to solve issues of unemployment in African youth.
Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
Finding opportunities for young people is a critical challenge for Africa, where 62 percent of the population—more than 600 million young people—is below the age of 25. With no signs that population growth will slow in the decades to come, it is imperative that Africa leverage the talent and energy of its youth to create dramatically higher levels of prosperity and equality and avoid the latent risks of unemployment and social instability.
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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
This paper focuses on the determinants of the labor market situation of young people in developed countries and the developing world, with a special emphasis on the role of vocational training and education policies. We highlight the role of demographic factors, economic growth and labor market institutions in explaining young people's transition into work. We then assess differences in the setup and functioning of the vocational education and training policies in major world regions, as an important driver of differential labor market situation of youth. Based on our analysis we argue in favor of vocational education and training systems combining work experience and general education and give some policy recommendations regarding the implementation of education and training systems adapted to a country's economic and institutional context.
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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
Fuelled in part by fears that burdens of the recent recession have disproportionately fallen on youth, the issue of youth unemployment has rekindled signi cant unease with dierent levels of government, communities and the general public. In addition to the most common consequences of unemployment such as nancial hardship and emotional distress, joblessness may also result in the erosion of an individual’s skills and knowledge and increase uncertainty of future labour market prospects. For jobless youth, this aspect of unemployment may particularly be ‘scarring’ as skills and knowledge gained through the educational system may not have appropriate opportunity to crystalize into professional ability. At the aggregated economic level, such an erosion of skills may disadvantage business in their ability to expand and compete; particularly in an environment of increasing global competition
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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
Some companies may be having a tough time finding suitable new hires – but Canada’s problem, at least right now, is not a labour shortage.
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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
Amid the Great Recession (2007-2009) and rapid technological changes, both workers with less education and workers who have been displaced from long-tenured jobs face challenges because they lack the particular skills that employers demand for well-paying jobs.
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This report seeks to answer the following questions:
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Students have long worked hard, whether part-time or during breaks in study periods, to help cover the costs of their education. Fairly compensated opportunities are therefore directly connected to the goal of ensuring that higher education is accessible and affordable. Facilitating opportunities for students to develop workforce skills and to transition from their studies into meaningful careers, is a key component of ensuring that post-secondary education in Canada is innovative and of the highest quality, both for students and for our country as a whole.
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Argentina holds the highest youth unemployment rate in Latin America according to the UN's 2015 Work for Human Development report. With a 19.4 percent rate, the country narrowly beats Uruguay (19.2 percent) and Colombia (19.1). The report states that the nation's youth unemployment is well above the regional average of 13.7 percent — a rate that has gone down from 14.3 in 2012. In the same year, youth unemployment in Argentina was estimated at 16.7 percent by the Permanent Household Survey, which is the going report conducted by the national statistics bureau (INDEC) tracking how the labor market affects Argentines. The UN report defines "youth unemployment" as encompassing the unemployed aged 15 to 24. Take note that the legal working age in Argentina is 16, however exceptions are made for children aged 14 to 16 working for a company owned by their parents. Photo via diariosobrediarios.com.ar Read more: Report: 1 In 5 Latin American Youth Neither Studies Nor Works Clarín reports that the high number o
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Though previous research repeatedly found that being employed is better for health than having no job at all, evidence suggests that employment is not always beneficial for health. With especially job insecurity reflecting a contemporary health risk for the employed, a systematic review was performed to assess if insecure employment can be as detrimental for health as unemployment, and to determine whether these associations vary according to different health measures and among men and women.
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Download as pdf Young people aged 15-24 are a key consumer group, which have been badly hit by unemployment in most countries since the start of the global economic downturn in 2008 and the profits of many consumer goods companies have been hit as a result. Western Europe had the...
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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
With the youth unemployment rate in the U.S. reaching a record level at 17 percent, a whole new generation of students is going to college and taking the wrong majors and receiving the wrong type of degrees. The top three industries for the future: - Health Care - Educational Services - Food Services and Drinking Places
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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
The dramatically high youth unemployment rates in Europe call for immediate action by Member States.
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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
Although Ontario’s economy is improving, the recession has not ended for those 900,000 Ontarians without a high school diploma. Statistics show that these adults are now twice as likely to be unemployed as they were 20 years ago.
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Globally, 75 million youth between 15 and 24 years of age are unemployed. What are governments doing to alleviate the situation?
Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
The problem of youth unemployment is a ticking time bomb scenario, making one wonder if being young is really an advantage and whether such a large group of disgruntled youth will hold the key to the future of nations.
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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
Manufacturing and construction jobs aren’t coming back. The workers now lack the skills required and realistically, it’s going to be hard to transform an illiterate and innumerate burger flipper into an IT support specialist overnight. There is emerging evidence that job retraining can be effective in teaching older workers new skills when done right. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/2012/07/unemployment_manufacturing_and_construction_jobs_aren_t_coming_back_americans_need_new_skills_.html
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