Resources on Employment trends and labour market information

  1. Growth, Productive Employment and Decent Work in the Least Developed Countries

    29 March 2011

    The Growth, Employment and Decent Work in the Least Developed Countries report has been prepared for the Fourth UN Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) (Istanbul, 9-13 May 2011). It reviews trends in growth, employment and decent work in LDCs, highlighting challenges and opportunities for structural transformation, job creation and poverty eradication and offers a portfolio of policy options for job creation and poverty reduction to be tailored to country needs and circumstances. This title is available in electronic format only. For more information please contact pubvente@ilo.org"

  2. Global Employment Trends 2011: The challenge of a jobs recovery

    01 January 2011

    The annual Global Employment Trends (GET) report provides the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity and working poverty, while also analysing country-level issues and trends in the labour market. Taking into account macroeconomic trends and forecasts, the GET includes a short-term outlook for labour markets around the world.

  3. Global Employment Trends for Youth, August 2010

    12 August 2010

    The report presents the latest global and regional labour market trends for youth and specifically explores how the global economic crisis has exposed the vulnerabilities of young people around the world. In developed economies, the crisis has led to the highest youth unemployment rates on record, while in developing economies – where 90 per cent of the world’s youth live – the crisis threatens to exacerbates the challenges of rampant decent work deficits, adding to the number of young people who find themselves stuck in working poverty and thus prolonging the cycle of working poverty through at least another generation.

  4. Labour Market Papers

    23 April 2010

  5. Economic and Labour Market Papers

    05 March 2010

  6. Women in labour markets: Measuring progress and identifying challenges

    05 March 2010

    This report uses labour market indicators to measure progress or lack of progress towards the goal of gender equality in the world of work and identify where and why blockages to labour market equity continue to exist.

  7. Global Employment Trends, January 2010

    26 January 2010

    An update of the annual ILO Global Employment Trends series, available since 2003

  8. Trends Econometric Models: A Review of Methodology

    19 January 2010

    Provides a detailed description of the methodology used in the Global Employment Trends Model. This publication is only available in soft copies.

  9. Country support for strengthening national capacity in the area of LMIA

    29 September 2009

    Technical support to countries in building their LMIA systems, both through specific interventions and through more comprehensive approaches including dedicated projects or project components.

  10. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) employment indicators

    29 September 2009

    Activities that entail raising awareness of the MDG employment-related indicators and offering country-level support to ensure that the indicators are used in national and international labour market monitoring systems.