Abstract
This brief presents an analysis of youth labour market outcomes, with a particular focus on two new school-to-work transition indicators published on ILOSTAT. It first introduces the new indicators. It then analyses the distribution of youth by stages of transition across a set of 60 countries for which the ILO has derived indicators from national labour force survey micro datasets. Finally, the brief demonstrates that the role of education in the transition to work appears to be more important in higher income countries than in lower income countries where there is less demand for highly skilled workers and where access to advanced studies is rarer.