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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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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”
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Policy Brief
Youth guarantees: a response to the youth employment crisis?
04 April 2013
Employment Policy Brief
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Event
Boosting economic dynamics and job growth: the potential of industrial policies
04 March 2013
The ILO and Friedrich Ebert Foundation organise a joint workshop to exchange experience between Government representatives from African, Asian and Latin American countries, international organisations and researchers on the role of industrial policies in accelerating the dynamics of productive transformation for job growth.
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© Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP 2013Green Jobs
Environmental sustainability is not a job killer
27 February 2013
ILO Green Jobs Programme coordinator, Peter Poschen, outlines the business and job opportunities that could emerge from a shift to a greener economy.
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Event
Inter-Agency Workshop: Employment and Social Inclusion in a Green Economy
04 February 2013
The ILO organizes an Inter-Agency Workshop in collaboration with UNEP, UNIDO and UNITAR under the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) and the Green Growth Working Group of the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED). Participants of this workshop will review and compare current approaches, tools and practices to assess and promote jobs and social inclusion in a green economy.
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Event
Web Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities: Benefits for All
30 January 2013
Tuesday, 12 February 2013 - Webinar convened by the ILO, the UN Global Compact Office and G3ICT
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Global Employment Trends for Women 2012
Labour market gender gap: Two steps forward, one step back
11 December 2012
The gender gap in global labour markets showed some convergence in the earlier part of the last decade but increased after the crisis erupted in 2007, according to an ILO report produced in collaboration with UN Women. The picture varies considerably among regions.
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Media advisory
ILO to launch “Global Employment Trends for Women”
07 December 2012
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is to launch a report analysing the gender gaps in global labour markets.
Key resources
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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 Youth
22 May 2012The 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 2012: Preventing a deeper jobs crisis
January 2012The annual Global Employment Trends report 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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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 ILO welcomed the World Bank's World Development Report 2013, entitled 'Jobs', a timely publication in the midst of the economic crisis