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Europe’s Immigrants Struggling To Rise From Low-Skill Jobs

Europe’s Immigrants Struggling To Rise From Low-Skill Jobs

Against a backdrop of aging populations and persistently low economic growth, few European governments are doing enough to help recent immigrants move from low-skilled precarious jobs and into decent work, says a new report by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) and International Labour Organization (ILO).The report, Aiming Higher: Policies to Get Immigrants into Middle-Skilled Work […]

Skills Mismatches Hurt Global Job Creation Prospects

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Skills Mismatches Hurt Global Job Creation Prospects

ILO News— Skills mismatches are driving up global unemployment. The Great Recession forced millions of workers to seek new jobs, but they often lack skills that employers are seeking. Several developed economies are seeing increasing numbers of job vacancies but their unemployment rates are not going down. What is happening is that many of the workers […]

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