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  1. Employment Sector Office
    International Labour Office
    4 Route des Morillons
    Geneva
    CH - 1211
    Switzerland
    Tel:+41.22.799.6583
    Fax:+41.22.799.6310
    +41.22.799.8573

Employment sector

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

News

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Statement

    Inaugural Remarks by Mr José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director, Employment Sector, ILO at the 10th International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) Asia-Pacific Regional Assembly

    28 November 2012

    Cooperative Forum on "Role of Co-operatives in times of natural disaster", Kobe International Convention Centre, 28 November 2012

  4. International Year of Cooperatives

    Healing pharmacies

    12 November 2012

    As the International Year of Cooperatives draws to an end, ILO News looks at how cooperatives in Turkey offer customers easier and safer access to medicines.

Key resources

  1. Just released

    Global Employment Trends for Youth
    22 May 2012

    The 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.

  1. Global Employment Trends 2012: Preventing a deeper jobs crisis
    January 2012

    The 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.

  2. Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM), Seventh Edition
    16 October 2011

    Published 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.

  3. Book

    Trade and Employment: From Myths to Facts
    04 October 2011

    The 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.

  4. Book

    Making Globalization Socially Sustainable
    20 September 2011

    This 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.

  5. Book

    Moving towards disability inclusion
    12 August 2011

    This 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.

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