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Employment Policy Department
| The Employment Sector is fully engaged in the implementation of the Global Employment Agenda, and is doing so through a large range of technical support and capacity building activities, advisory services and policy research. Mr José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs |
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Presentation
The ILO‘s Approach of Entrepreneurship Development
26 June 2013
Presented by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Assistant Director-General for Policy, ILO
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Publication
Work Sharing during the Great Recession: New developments and beyond
18 June 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.
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New website
Launch of new Skills for Employment Knowledge Sharing Platform
18 June 2013
The new Skills for Employment Global Public-Private Knowledge Sharing Platform (Global KSP) shares the approaches and experiences that international organizations, governments, employers and workers have found effective in strengthening the links between education and training to productive and decent work.
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Presentation
The Impact of Trade on Employment and Poverty Reduction, UNCTAD Trade and Development Commission
17 June 2013
Presented by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Assistant Director-General for Policy, ILO
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© Leon Neal / AFP 2013Youth employment
A forum for the voice of youth
24 May 2013
A new interactive on-line platform aims to engage young people and find solutions to the youth employment crisis.
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Publication
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.
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Publication
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.
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Statement
Remarks at launch event of the European Business Campaign: “Skills for Jobs”
18 April 2013
by Mr José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Assistant Director General for Policy, ILO at the session on “Reaching impact and scaling up”
Key resources
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Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013: A generation at risk
08 May 2013The new study examines the continuing job crisis affecting young people in many parts of the world. It provides updated statistics on global and regional youth unemployment rates and presents ILO policy recommendations to curb the current trends.
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Global Employment Trends 2013: Recovering from a second jobs dip
22 January 2013Five years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the study offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.
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Global Employment Trends for Women 2012
11 December 2012This report examines the conditions of women’s engagement in the labour market, by estimating and analysing five key gaps, or gender differentials, between women and men which disadvantage women: in unemployment, in employment, in labour force participation, in vulnerability, and in sectoral and occupational segregation.
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Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM), Seventh Edition
16 October 2011Published every two years since 1999, the KILM is a multi-functional research tool of the ILO consisting of country-level data on 18 key indicators of the labour market from 1980 to the latest available year, ranging from employment and variables relating to employment (status, sector, hours, etc.) to the lack of work and the characteristics of jobseekers, education, wages and compensation costs, labour productivity and working poverty.
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Book
Trade and Employment: From Myths to Facts
04 October 2011The edited volume “Trade and Employment: From Myths to Facts” is the outcome of a joint project of the European Commission and the International Labour Office. The book contributes to promoting the advancement of employment, decent work and social cohesion in developing countries by assisting policy makers and social partners in anticipating and addressing the effects of trade reforms on employment.
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Book
Making Globalization Socially Sustainable
20 September 2011This publication consists of contributions by leading academic experts including David Blanchflower, John Haltiwanger, Nina Pavcnik and Dani Rodrik, who analyse the various channels through which globalization affects jobs and wages. Together, the nine chapters in this volume summarize state-of-the art knowledge on themes related to the social dimension of globalization.
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Book
Moving towards disability inclusion
12 August 2011This publication provides insights into how disability perspectives may be incorporated into policies, laws, services and programmes, and the essential elements for sustainable and inclusive growth of societies.
Executive Director's Office
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Mr. José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs
Executive Director of the Employment Sector.
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In the Media
23 May 2012, Geneva, Switzerland.
Video
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The World Bank's World Development Report 2013, presented at the ILO
The ILO welcomed the World Bank's World Development Report 2013, entitled 'Jobs', a timely publication in the midst of the economic crisis