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December 2012

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   Global Wage Report 2012/13

   Wage growth slows globally despite increases in emerging countries

   07 December 2012

   New ILO figures show a continuing slowdown in global wages in developed countries and some resilience in emerging economies.

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.

May 2011

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   Video

   Liberia: Labour Force Survey

   16 May 2011

   Statistical studies of the job market and the workforce not only help governments find out more about the current “state of the nation” - they are key tools in deciding appropriate policies to create job opportunities and enhance prosperity. While common in Europe and North America, accurate labour statistics are hard to come by in developing countries. But that’s just changed in Liberia, a country particularly hard hit by past conflict and poverty. And the results are pointing the way to job creation and to an improved quality of life for everyone.

October 2010

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   World Statistics Day - 20 October

   ILO launches new statistics database: Short term indicators of the labour market

   20 October 2010

   Timely information on the labour market and consumer prices are indispensable for drawing up appropriate policy responses to the global economic crisis. To facilitate this, and also to commemorate World Statistics Day on 20 October, the ILO Department of Statistics has launched a new short-term indicators database.

December 2008

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   International Conference of Labour Statisticians

   Countries approve ground-breaking means to measure today’s world of work

   05 December 2008

   The 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians ended with the adoption of new international statistical standards on child labour and working time as well as new guidelines for the measurement of decent work, labour underutilization and volunteer work.