Publications

2013

1. Disabled beggars in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

   22 May 2013

   Employment Working Paper No. 141

2. The Philippines Employment Projections Model: Employment targeting and scenarios

   15 May 2013

   Employment Working Paper No. 140

3. 

   The Informal Economy and Decent Work: A Policy Resource Guide supporting transitions to formality

   15 May 2013

   This practical Policy Resource Guide is the first initiative to bring together a synthesis of knowledge, policy innovations and good practices facilitating transition to formality.

4. The Labour Markets of Emerging Economies: Has growth translated into more and better jobs?

   15 May 2013

   This volume focuses on the labour market situation, trends and regulations in emerging economies, devoting attention to how they have dealt with both short-term issues, namely the global financial crisis, and longer-term structural challenges − as well as the gaps that still remain.

5. Work Sharing during the Great Recession: New developments and beyond

   15 May 2013

   This volume presents the concept and history of work sharing, how it can be used as a strategy for preserving jobs and also its potential for increasing employment − including the complexities and trade-offs involved. Work-sharing programmes used during the Great Recession of 2008−09 are analysed for several European countries and other countries around the world.

6. 

   Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade, and Employment (ILO-UNCTAD)

   14 May 2013

   The edited volume “Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade and Employment” is the outcome of a technical cooperation project entitled “Assessing and Addressing the Effects of Trade and Employment” managed jointly by the European Commission and the International Labour Office (ILO) with funding from the European Union, and collaborative work between the ILO and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The research findings in this volume emphasize the need to make agriculture (or re-establish it as) a high policy priority, particularly in the domains of development, trade, and employment.

7. Towards more inclusive employment policy making: Process and role of stakeholders in Indonesia, Nicaragua, Moldova and Uganda

   13 May 2013

   Employment Working Paper No. 137

8. ILO and Cooperatives - ILO COOP NEWS No. 1, 2013

   13 May 2013

   This issue of the COOP News includes articles on: Post-2015 Development Agenda & COOP; Cooperatives celebrate International Women’s Day; Cooperative statistics to feature at ICLS Oct 13; Study tour from African coops to Japan; New study on financial cooperative resilience; ILO paper on Social Economy in Sudan; COOP and the European Task Force for Greece; COOP activities: Vietnam, Egypt & Sri Lanka; New feature: COOP Champions; Domestic workers cooperatives; Social and solidarity economy legislation; COOP exchange with the Social Finance Network; Start and Improve Your Cooperative Business; UNRISD conference.

9. Youth poverty in Accra: urban livelihoods in informal apprenticeships

   10 May 2013

   Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 21

10. A Study on Informal Apprenticeship in Egypt

    09 May 2013

11. Local governance and the informal economy: Experiences in promoting decent work in the Philippines

    06 May 2013

    Employment Working Paper No. 135

12. Cities with Jobs: Confronting the Employment Challenge, Research report

    06 May 2013

    Employment Working Paper No. 131

13. Promoting employment intensive growth in Sri Lanka: An assessment of key sectors

    06 May 2013

    Employment Working Paper No. 139

14. Globalization, employment and gender in the open economy of Sri Lanka

    06 May 2013

    Employment Working Paper No. 138

15. Professional microcredit in France: what effect on employment?

    30 April 2013

16. Youth guarantees: a response to the youth employment crisis?

    04 April 2013

    Employment Policy Brief

17. The enabling environment for sustainable enterprises in Malawi

    01 April 2013

    Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 20

18. Resilience in a downturn: The power of financial cooperatives

    20 March 2013

    This report reviews the performance of financial cooperatives, looking in particular at the aftermath of the 2007-2008 crisis and the continuing long austerity period. It explains why financial cooperatives have proven to be more resilient pointing to the specificities of the cooperative model of enterprise.

19. 

    Perspectives on Labour Economics for Development

    01 March 2013

    Perspectives on Labour Economics for Development seeks to provide a comprehensive, but non-technical, coverage of labour market issues in a developing country context to help policy-makers and other readers improve their capacity to understand these topics and develop appropriate and effective policy responses. This book is an invaluable reference for policy-makers in middle- and low-income countries as well as an ideal handbook for teachers and students of economics and development.

20. The enabling environment for sustainable enterprises in Malawi

    28 February 2013