Books: enterprises

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• 2008 Labour Overview. Latin America and the Caribbean - Buy now
  01 July 2009 - This edition provides evidence of the effects of an unprecedented international crisis that has cast a shadow over the global economy and is reflected in the employment situation in the region. Employment will be a challenge in 2009. As ILO Director-General, Juan Somavia stated, "The ILO's message is realistic, not alarmist" with respect to this situation.

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• A guide to worker displacement: Some tools for reducing the impact on workers, communities and enterprises (update 2009) - Buy now
  19 June 2009 - The guide is primarily for use in industrialized and transition countries, and is aimed at policy makers, employers and workers in developing appropriate responses that promote worker retention and employment during the recession.

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• Cross-border social dialogue and agreements: An emerging global industrial relations framework? - Buy now
  12 May 2008 - The book examines various facets of international framework agreements (IFAs), as one of numerous private initiatives that have emerged in the absence of a state-driven multilateral framework, in view of organising a common labour relations framework at cross-border level. ...

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• Economic and social effects of multinational enterprises in export processing zones - Buy now
  13 September 1988 - The research confronts a number of widely held assumptions with the available facts and figures, and points to the possible evolution of export processing zones (EPZs) in the economies of newly industrializing countries. It envisages the emergence of the export processing country and a more open and competitive approach to industrial development.

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• Japanese multinationals in Australia: Employment policies and industrial relations, 1990-97 (MULTI 85) - Buy now
  26 May 1999 - Multinational Enterprises Programme, Working Paper No. 85

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• Policies for small enterprises. Creating the right environment for good jobs - Buy now
  06 February 2004 - Takes a critical look at the environment in which micro and small enterprises (MSEs) operate in a selection of developing countries, analysing their policies on MSE promotion, taxation, trade and finance, and their business and labour laws.

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• Restructuring for corporate success. A socially sensitive approach - Buy now
  05 October 2005 - Provides guidance on establishing a strategy of worker retention and worker displacement that will minimize the negative social impact of enterprise restructuring and respect the provisions of international labour standards. Looks at the reasons for workforce reduction and its impact on the individual and the company and sets out alternative options that managers should consider. ...
• Rural women in micro-enterprise development - Buy now
  20 February 1997 -

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• Skills, productivity and employment growth. The case of Latin America - Buy now
  24 June 2008 - The aim of this study is to illustrate the relations between training and workers' skills, productivity and the growth of quality employment in societies in Latin America by means of an analysis of the existing information and case studies of four different countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru). A review of the activities of ...
• Small firms and development in Latin America - Buy now
  21 May 1993 - Encouraged by success stories about their ability to adapt to crisis, policymakers in Latin America and elsewhere herald small firms as the key to a new economic dynamism which could provide a breakthrough solution to mass unemployment. ...

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• The impact of multinational enterprises on employment, training and regional development in Namibia and Zimbabwe: A preliminary assessment (MULTI 84) - Buy now
  25 March 1999 - Multinational Enterprises Programme, Working Paper No. 84. Analyses the economic contributions of multinational enterprises (MNEs) to the Namibian and Zimbabwean economies. Looks at certain social aspects and compares the volume, distribution and contributions of MNE capital to the two countries' economies before and after economic liberalization.