KEY INDICATORS of the LABOUR MARKET Ninth Edition Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM), Ninth Edition
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KEY INDICATORS OF THE LABOUR MARKET Ninth edition Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM), Ninth edition KILM 1. Labour force participation rate KILM 2. Employment-to-population ratio KILM 3. Status in employment KILM 4. Employment by sector KILM 5. Employment by occupation KILM 6. Part-time workers KILM 7. Hours of work KILM 8. Employment in the informal economy KILM 9. Unemployment KILM 10. Youth unemployment KILM 11. Long-term unemployment KILM 12. Time-related underemployment KILM 13. Persons outside the labour force KILM 14. Educational attainment and illiteracy KILM 15. Wages and compensation costs KILM 16. Labour productivity KILM 17. Poverty, income distribution, employment by economic class and working poverty KEY INDICATORS OF THE LABOUR MARKET Ninth edition INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE · GENEVA Copyright © International Labour Organization 2016 First published 2016 Publications of the International Labour Office enjoy copyright under Protocol 2 of the Universal Copyright Convention. Nevertheless, short excerpts from them may be reproduced without authorization, on condition that the source is indicated. For rights of reproduction or translation, application should be made to ILO Publications (Rights and Licensing), International Labour Office, CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland, or by email: [email protected]. The International Labour Office welcomes such applications. Libraries, institutions and other users registered with a reproduction rights organization may make copies in accordance with the licences issued to them for this purpose. 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PRODOC endeavours to use paper sourced from forests managed in an environmentally sustainable and socially responsible manner. Code: DTP-JMB-CORR-REPRO Preface This 9th edition of the Key Indicators of the “data revolution” to strengthen the production Labour Market (KILM) is being issued by the ILO and dissemination of statistics in all domains in Department of Statistics for the first time. The order to better understand developments at the series dates back to 1999 and was previously national, regional and global levels and thereby published by the ILO’s Employment Sector. As enable better informed policy-making. part of the ILO reorganization in 2012, the The indicator framework to track progress on Department of Statistics was mandated to consol- the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is idate all existing ILO statistical databases into currently being discussed by countries and the ILOSTAT, the successor to LABORSTA and other international organizations with a goal to databases published in the past by the ILO. complete the work by the end of 2016. The frame- ILOSTAT is the largest repository of labour statis- work will build on existing indicators and will tics in the world, covering all dimensions of also embrace the new ones. decent work. Inclusive and sustainable economic growth The KILM builds on the data reported by and full and productive employment and decent countries to ILOSTAT and is enriched by external work for all are the overarching objective of statistical sources from other organizations Goal 8 of the Agenda. Many of the indicators on including Eurostat, OECD, UNESCO and the World key aspects of decent work will build on existing Bank. It relies on internationally comparable data ones and databases like KILM will help to set derived from statistical standards agreed by the benchmarks and to monitor labour markets International Conference of Labour Statisticians. around the world. Indicators in the database are disaggregated wherever possible, with the goal of identifying This edition of the KILM also provides key trends and priority groups for labour market thematic discussions of the educational level of interventions. the labour force and unemployment. It analyses trends in the share of youth who are not in The KILM is a user-friendly and easy-to- employment, education or training, the so-called understand database, containing 17 indicators NEETs. Reducing the size of this group is a that capture the most important aspects of the specific target within Goal 8 of the SDGs. world’s labour markets. In a joint collaboration with the ILO Research Department, it also There are many organizations and colleagues includes global, regional and national estimates who are acknowledged below but I want to espe- for selected indicators. These estimates are cially thank the producers of the data reported explicitly identified in the database and follow here: national statistical offices, ministries of methodologies that are reviewed and improved labour and other national institutions which dili- with the release of each edition. gently, carefully, and often with scarce resources, produce each survey, registry, census and other The publication of this edition occurs at an statistical sources to shed light on the world of opportune and important time, as the global work, carefully following international definitions community has just adopted the 2030 Agenda for and standards and the Fundamental Principles of Sustainable Development. The Agenda calls for a Official Statistics. RAFAEL DIEZ DE MEDINA Chief Statistician and Director, Department of Statistics International Labour Office Table of contents Preface ............................................................................................ v Summary of KILM 9th Edition ...................................................................... 1 Acknowledgements ................................................................................ 5 Guide to understanding the KILM .................................................................. 7 The history of the KILM .................................................................... 7 The role of the KILM in labour market analysis .................................................. 7 Labour market analyses using multiple KILM indicators ........................................... 10 KILM organization and coverage ............................................................. 11 Information repositories and methodological information ......................................... 12 Summary of the 17 ILO Key Indicators of the Labour Market ....................................... 14 KILM electronic versions ................................................................... 20 References .............................................................................. 20 Education and labour markets: Analysing global patterns with the KILM .............................. 23 1. Introduction . 23 2. Global trends by indicator ............................................................... 24 2.1. Labour force distribution by level of educational attainment................................ 24 2.2. Unemployment distribution by level of educational attainment ............................. 27 2.3. Unemployment rate by level of educational attainment.................................... 28 2.4. Share of youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) ............................ 31 3. Impact of education on labour market outcomes ............................................. 32 3.1. Unemployment and education . 32 3.2. Labour productivity and education.................................................... 35 3.3. Employment-to-population ratio and education .......................................... 37 3.4. Share of employees and education .................................................... 37 4. The current situation in 12 selected countries................................................ 37 4.1 Data for latest year available on the four selected indicators ...............................