World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2020

World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2020

Geneva (Switzerland): International Labour Organization (ILO), 2020.

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108 p.

978-92-2-031407-4

A lack of decent work combined with rising unemployment and persisting inequality is making it increasingly difficult for people to build better lives through their work. Almost half a billion people are working fewer paid hours than they would like or lack adequate access to paid work, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report. In addition, the World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2020 (WESO) shows that unemployment is projected to increase by around 2.5 million in 2020. Global unemployment has been roughly stable for the last nine years but slowing global economic growth means that, as the global labour force increases, not enough new jobs are being generated to absorb new entrants to the labour market.

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ELR 715

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