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PRIORITYMEASURE10
“Promote and invest in labour and employment policies and special trainingprogrammes for youth to boost personal and collective capabilities and initiative
and to enable them to reconcile studies andwork activities, without precariousworking conditions and guaranteeing equal opportunities and treatment.”
Possible lines of action
1. Implementation of specific occupational training programmes for youth; 2. Establishment of incentives for hiring young people;
3. Introduction of systems of incentives and assistance to help young people find employment; 4. Creation of public works programmes
for young professionals and technicians; 5. Provision of technical support and concessional loans for young entrepreneurs;
6. Implementation of programmes to facilitate reconciliation of employment and studies; 7. Approval, regulation and enforcement of
labour legislation that will punish discrimination against young people at social risk.
Targets
1. Reduction in the youth unemployment rate; 2. Higher percentage of young people with decent work; 3. Increase in the number of
youngpeople trained through special youth training schemes.
Tentative indicators
1. Youth unemployment rate by age group (15-19, 20-24 and 25-29); 2. Percentage of decent jobs among employed youth; 3. Percentage
of young people not in education, employment or training; 4. Percentage of young people not in education, employment or trainingwho
are engaged in unpaidwork; 5. Percentage of young peoplewho are overqualified for thework they perform.
Related instruments,
forums andmechanisms
SDG target 8.6 (seePM7); Ibero-AmericanConventionon theRights ofYouth, article26-28.Given that this PMpertains to labour, ILOhas
an obvious role in supporting andmonitoring it. In fact, the notion of decent work comes from the International LabourOrganization (ILO),
which in 1999 defined it thus: “Decent work sums up the aspirations of people in theirworking lives. It involves opportunities for work that
is productive and delivers a fair income, security in the workplace and social protection for families, better prospects for personal
development and social integration, freedom for people to express their concerns, organize and participate in the decisions that affect their
lives and equality of opportunity and treatment for all women andmen”. For further details about measuring decent work, seeECLAC-ILO,
2013, Advances and challenges in measuring decent work, The employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean, No. 8, May,
LC/L.3630, http://www.cepal.org/en/publications/37580-employment-situation-latin-america-and-caribbean-advances-and-challenges.
Comments
Indicators 3 and 4 are not intended to capture the stigmatizing concept of “NEET” (“not in education, employment or training”), but
rather to show the structural inequalities and lack of opportunities that affect young people especially badly. Additional indicators
should include those relating to underemployment or informal employment, although these could be incorporated into the
measurement of decent work (depending on how that measure is operationalized). In view of the well-documented social and labour
inequality in almost all the countries of the region, indicators should be disaggregated by sex, area of residence, socioeconomic level
and ethnicity.
