This valuable, wide-ranging reference tool meets the ever-increasing demand for timely, accurate and accessible information on the rapidly changing world of work. Now in its 3rd edition, Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) provides the general reader, as well as the expert, with concise explanations and analysis of the data on the world’s labour markets.

Harvesting vast information from international data repositories, and regional and national statistical sources, this important reference work offers data for over 200 countries for the years 1980, 1990, 1995 and the latest available subsequent five years. The volume employs an expanded, up-to-date range of 20 key labour market indicators allowing researchers to compare and contrast between economies and within regions across time. Using statistical data on the labour force, employment, unemployment, underemployment, educational attainment of the workforce, wages and compensation, productivity and labour costs, labour market flows, and poverty and income distribution as market indicators, it enables users to access the most current information available. Maps and graphics are used throughout to highlight key points.

Key features:

• Allows users to access to the most current information available
• Offers a clear, reliable set of 20 indicators to help monitor new employment trends
• Provides detailed information from over 200 countries in user-friendly, accessible format
• Includes numerous maps and graphics to highlight key points

NEW - The KILM Interactive Software
The third edition of the KILM software includes many exciting innovations:

• New functionality allows user to generate a “country report”, thus consolidating all indicators available for one country in one easy to view format, which can be printed or downloaded to a spreadsheet;
• The software includes a mapping function for those who wish to visualize data geographically according to selected data characteristics;
• An improved “update” capacity allows users to download upgrades every six months from the KILM website (www.ilo.org/kilm) to ensure they are accessing the latest available market information;
• Users are also given access to an Internet-based application where they can perform simple queries of the indicators and generate html-based data tables;
• The software duplicates the printed publication but also includes information for all years after 1980, as well as all the basic statistics used to calculate the KILM indicators;
• Its easy-to-use format makes searching for relevant information quick and simple.