Books and reports

October 2013

1. 

   The Labour Markets of Emerging Economies: Has growth translated into more and better jobs?

   31 October 2013

   This volume focuses on the labour market situation, trends and regulations in emerging economies, devoting attention to how they have dealt with both short-term issues, namely the global financial crisis, and longer-term structural challenges − as well as the gaps that still remain.

2. 

   Equal Pay - An introductory guide

   04 October 2013

   Ensuring that the work done by women and men is valued fairly and ending pay discrimination is essential to achieving gender equality. However, pay inequality continues to persist and gender pay gaps in some instances have stagnated or even increased.

3. 

   Measuring informality: A statistical manual on the informal sector and informal employment

   04 October 2013

   This manual is intended for national statistical offices and other producers of statistics planning programmes to produce statistics on the informal sector and informal employment. The manual provides technical guidance on implementing international standards, presenting alternative measurement methodologies along with examples based on national experience, and includes guidelines for the dissemination of statistics on the informal sector and informal employment.

September 2013

1. 

   ILO Publications. Catalogue Autumn 2013 - Update of English titles

   01 September 2013

July 2013

1. 

   Short-term labour market outlook and key challenges in G20 countries

   17 July 2013

   Statistical update for the Meeting of G20 Labour and Employment Ministers Moscow, 18–19 July 2013. Prepared by the ILO and the OECD.

June 2013

1. 

   Work Sharing during the Great Recession: New developments and beyond

   18 June 2013

   This volume presents the concept and history of work sharing, how it can be used as a strategy for preserving jobs and also its potential for increasing employment − including the complexities and trade-offs involved. Work-sharing programmes used during the Great Recession of 2008−09 are analysed for several European countries and other countries around the world.

April 2013

1. 

   Public Sector Shock: The impact of policy retrenchment in Europe

   24 April 2013

   On the basis of a comparative and comprehensive assessment, illustrated by case studies in education, health and public administration, policy issues are discussed with the aim of finding the right mix of public sector reforms.

2. 

   Resilience in a Downturn: The power of financial cooperatives

   11 April 2013

   This new report addresses the historical, statistical, conceptual, and policy aspects of financial cooperatives, focusing in particular on how cooperatives fare in times of crisis. Importantly, it underscores that cooperatives’ success during the global financial crisis can provide a credible alternative to the investment-owned banking system.

March 2013

1. 

   Perspectives on Labour Economics for Development

   01 March 2013

   Perspectives on Labour Economics for Development seeks to provide a comprehensive, but non-technical, coverage of labour market issues in a developing country context to help policy-makers and other readers improve their capacity to understand these topics and develop appropriate and effective policy responses. This book is an invaluable reference for policy-makers in middle- and low-income countries as well as an ideal handbook for teachers and students of economics and development.

2. 

   Globalizing Social Rights: The International Labour Organization and beyond

   01 March 2013

   This collection brings together a variety of new scholarship by a group of highly qualified and internationally renowned scholars in the field of global history and the history of international organizations.