Books: labour market

A 

• Asian decent work decade resource kit (incl. cd-rom) - Buy now
  03 February 2009 - The Resource Kit brings together the ILO's expertise, knowledge and tools as they relate to Decent Work and the goals of the Asian Decent Work Decade (2006-2015)
• Achieving equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities through legislation. Guidelines - Buy now
  13 December 2007 - These guidelines reflect the reappraisal of disability as a human rights issue. Intended for policy-makers and drafters of legislation, they have been developed with a view to assisting in improving the effectiveness of national laws concerning training and employment of disabled persons, as part of an ILO Project "The Employment of People with Disabilities: The impact of Legislation". ...

C 

• Child labour statistics. Report III. 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS/18/2008). Geneva, 24 November-5 December 2008 - Buy now
  03 February 2009 - This report aims at setting standards of good practice on the collection, compilation and analysis of national child labour statistics, guiding countries to update their existing statistical system in this field or to establish a new one where necessary.
• Current international recommendations on labour statistics - 2000 edition - Buy now
  08 June 2000 - Includes the Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160), and Recommendation, 1985 (No. 170), adopted by the International Labour Conference, and a number of resolutions adopted by the International Conference of Labour Statisticians in 1993 and 1998.

E 

• Employment, unemployment and wages in Turkey - Buy now
  31 December 1995 - Covers the period from 1923 to 1990 and suggests a framework for future analyses of the Turkish labour market.
• Employment and labour market interventions (ARTEP) - Buy now
  05 October 1992 - Focuses on the period from 1963 to 1990..

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• Forced labor: Coercion and exploitation in the private economy - Buy now
  26 August 2009 - PRAISE FOR FORCED LABOR "Excellent. . . . This state-of-the-art volume provides a first-rate analysis of the dynamics leading to the occurrence of forced labour, its global distribution,and different types of policy responses." -Jens Lerche, SOAS, University of London. Two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, at least 12. ...
• From conflict to cooperation: Labour market reforms that can work in Nepal - Buy now
  28 May 2008 - This book reviews the history of labour relations in Nepal and considers criticisms of the existing industrial relations system. It reports on the re-emergence of the militant Maoist trade union and the recent upsurge in strikes and demonstrations in Nepal. ...
• Flexicurity: A relevant approach in Central and Eastern Europe - Buy now
  25 January 2007 - This book argues, with case studies contributed by outstanding national experts, that the flexicurity approach is the most relevant for Central and Eastern European countries and suggests appropriate reforms of economic policy, institutional framework of the labour market, labour market policy and education and social policies in this region.
• Flexibility and security in the labour market. Bulgaria’s experience. - Buy now
  28 October 2005 - Gives an overview of labour market developments in the period 1990-2003, with particular reference to "flexicurity" measures providing a balance between flexibility and security in employment.
• Flexibility and security in the labour market. Poland’s experience - Buy now
  28 October 2005 - Gives an overview of labour market developments in the period 1991-2003, with particular reference to "flexicurity" measures providing a balance between flexibility and security in employment.
• Flexibility and labour markets in Canada and the United States (RS 94) - Buy now
  24 November 1989 - This collection of papers explores flexibility issues within the institutional framework of North American labour markets. It brings together views from academic, trade union, employers and government and contrasts the experiences in Canada and the United States, and in North America and Europe.
• Flexibility rigidity in labour market in Hungary (RS 90) - Buy now
  07 April 1989 - This is a collection of essays by Hungarian scholars which examines recent developments in the Hungarian labour market including trends in labour market and employment policy and their consequences, and more detailed analyses of job search and labour mobility. It will interest those concerned with economic reform and its effects on labour and employment.

G 

• Globalization, Flexibilization and Working Conditions in Asia and the Pacific - Buy now
  08 October 2008 - This unique study reviews employment conditions in Asia and the Pacific in the context of globalization and the increasing pressures towards flexibilization. It places a strong focus on the divergent experiences of individual workers regarding their employment conditions...

I 

• International training compendium on labour statistics. Module 1: Statistics of employment, unemployment, underemployment - economically active population. - Buy now
  19 January 2005 - Intended to train practitioners, through a course or self-instruction, in the use and production of labour statistics. Includes examples and exercises, as well as reproductions of the course slides, for the assessment of the economically active and unemployed population.

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• Key indicators of the labour market (Fifth edition) with interactive CD-ROM (Trilingual English/French/Spanish) - Buy now
  04 February 2008 - KILM provides a valuable, wide-ranging reference tool to meet the ever-increasing demand for timely, accurate and accessible information on the rapidly changing world of work. It includes all the basic statistics used to calculate 20 key labour market indicators allowing researchers to compare and contrast between economies and within regions across time. ...
• Key Indicators of the Labour Market. Third edition. Hardcover and Interactive Software (CD-ROM) - Buy now
  25 August 2003 - Provides 20 indicators related to labour force, employment, unemployment, educational attainment, wages and compensation costs, productivity and labour costs, labour market flows and poverty. Covers the period from 1980 to 2001.

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• Labour and social trends in ASEAN 2008. Driving competitiveness and prosperity with decent work - Buy now
  15 February 2009 - This report looks at some of the most important current labour and social trends in the 10 ASEAN Member Countries. ...
• Labour markets in transition. Balancing flexibility and security in Central and Eastern Europe - Buy now
  10 November 2003 - Examines the interaction between labour market flexibility, employment security and labour market policies in the Central and Eastern European transition countries and provides comparison with labour market behaviour in OECD countries.
• Labour institutions and economic development in India (RS 97) - Buy now
  14 January 1993 - Taking the debate on the impact of labour institutions, such as the organisation of labour, work relations and the access to labour markets, as its point of departure, this volume explores the variety of labour institutions in relation to production, labour commitment and economic development in India.