Niall O'Higgins

Niall O'Higgins is Senior Research Specialist in the ILO's Employment Analysis Unit and Professor of Economics at the University of Salerno. He holds degrees from Trinity College Dublin, York and Sheffield Universities and a Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence. His main research interests cover various aspects of labour and experimental economics. Previously, Senior Researcher in the ILO's Youth Employment Programme, he is one of the main authors of the ILO's biennial Global Employment Trends for Youth. Amongst his other recent publications are books on Internship and on youth employment policy and articles in the European Economic Review, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the Journal of Institutional Economics and the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy. He is also author of two recent papers on volunteering as a school-to-work transition mechanism, Volunteer work and its links to the labour market experiences of young people (ILO/UNV, 2020), and, On the design of Volunteer programmes to facilitate the entry and re-entry of young people into work (ILO/UNV, 2022).