Patricia E. Langan, Director of Programs at the International Youth Foundation’s Employability Center talking about the future labor market based on International Labor Organization statistics.
The unemployment is already high today among young people especially in Africa. She speculates in what the ramifications going to be in the future when 30 million young people are going to be added. She discusses the possibilities if unemployment among young people would be cut in half and how that would benefit the affected countries GDP. (1:36)
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February 4, 2005
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