Ensuring Labour Market Success for Ethnic Minority

and Immigrant Youth

A learning manual by the OECD LEED Programme

Project summary

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1) Education is key

• Education impacts on future employment prospects

• Migrant youth have poorer outcomes overall in school – higher dropout rate, achievement gap

• Contributing factors are complex; e.g. socio-economic background, later entry age, language barriers, etc.

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Project recommendations

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2) Progressing into workThe journey to employment

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Project Recommendations

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3) Governance

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• To target or not? Ethnicity/area-based approaches;

• Partnership approach important (co-creation with target groups, business; NGO’s, social enterprises,…)

• Variety of different funding measures (mostly public )

Project Recommendations

• Target policy yes but with care, without stigmatising• Partnerships work, but avoid fragmentation; strong

networking is needed • Think innovatively on financing • Define success, monitor and evaluate

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In conclusion• The outcomes of migrant youth are far from

homogeneous and vary according to numerous factors e.g. generation, country of origin, gender etc.;

• All young people are a fundamental asset to the local community, particularly in light of population ageing and as the battle for talent intensifies;

• Putting in place policies can prevent a lost generation of talented young people, which brings with it a high social and economic cost;

• Mobilisation will ensure they contribute their skills and talent to strengthening the local economy.

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The strengths of the manual • Insights from research• Taking lessons from examples• Examples ‘speak’ – illustrate

strengths and weaknesses

• Take care to adapt to your own local governance context

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