All ILO Newsroom content

December 2012

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   Europe

   Competitiveness and employment: Trying to square the circle

   05 December 2012

   Cutting costs can help a country become more competitive and boost exports as a result. But, as attractive as it may seem, EU countries, which trade heavily among themselves, cannot all gain a competitive edge at the same time.

November 2012

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   Unemployment insurance

   More than 70 per cent of workers lack unemployment protection

   14 November 2012

   The recent global economic crisis has served as a stark reminder of why unemployment insurance matters. But the reality is that fewer than half of almost 200 countries monitored by the ILO offer such protection.

October 2012

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   Employment update

   Asia-Pacific: Quality and quantity of jobs dropping

   22 October 2012

   Slowing growth in many Asian countries has accentuated labour market challenges in a region that has the world’s largest youth population, and where precarious work is widespread.

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   School-to-work transition

   The lure of apprenticeships in times of crisis

   15 October 2012

   Apprenticeships have been around for centuries but they are now getting a lot of fresh attention as the world struggles to defuse the potentially explosive youth employment crisis.

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   Interview with The Times

   ILO Chief warns of austerity’s ‘toxic’ impact

   03 October 2012

   In an interview with The Times newspaper, the head of ILO warned that austerity measures in southern European countries risk having “quite harmful consequences”. He was more positive about the outlook in Britain.

September 2012

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   Analysis

   Crisis in Spain highlights an increasing ‘employment divide’

   17 September 2012

   The wave of social unrest that has recently hit Spain is a reflection of the growing rural/urban and north/south divide in the country.

August 2012

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   Video News Release

   To be young and profitable in Peru

   10 August 2012

   There are nearly 450,000 young people without jobs in Peru. They represent more than two thirds of the country's unemployed and of the 5 million young people who do have work, many are in "precarious" conditions, without social benefits or job security. So instead of looking for a job, many young Peruvians prefer to looking toward themselves and starting their own businesses.

July 2012

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   News

   Women in EU public sector face higher risk of losing jobs

   30 July 2012

   The public sector in the EU offers many highly qualified jobs and is a major source of employment for women. But increasingly, those positions are being lost to austerity policies.

2. 

   Article

   The challenge of getting a job in Cambodia

   19 July 2012

   Unemployment in Cambodia is very low, but that’s because the vast majority of the population works in the informal sector. The government hopes ILO-backed job centres will help increase access to decent work.

June 2012

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   News

   Mexico: A labour market overview

   29 June 2012

   As Mexicans go to the polls on Sunday to choose a new president and legislature, the ILO presents a snapshot of the employment situation based on the May edition of "The Labour Situation in Latin America"*.