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  1. Working Paper No. 80 - Growth, Investment and Employment in Ghana

    01 March 2007

    This paper examines the formulation of national policies including trade, exchange rate, monetary, fiscal and labour market policies and how they have contributed to growth and employment generation.

  2. Working paper No. 79 - Employment Creation, Real wages and Job Quality: How much aggregate Economic Growth Delivers? The Case of Chile

    01 March 2007

    This paper provides an overview of the Chilean economy and analyzes macroeconomic policies highighting the main features of fiscal, monetary, exchange rate and capital account policies. It also looks at patterns of labour market adjustment focusing on the behavior of employment and real wages.

  3. Working paper No. 78 - Globalization and the illicit market for human trafficking: an empirical analysis of supply and demand.

    01 December 2006

  4. Working Paper No. 77 - Global Production Systems and Decent Work

    01 May 2007

    This aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the challenges of enhancing decent work within global production systems, and contribute to developing a research agenda on this issue.

  5. Working Paper No. 76 - Socio-economic security and decent work in Ukraine: a comparative view and statistical findings

    01 January 2006

    This paper draws on results from work on developing and testing decent work statistical indicators and methods of data collection. It includes also points on experience gained during the preparation and implementation of several surveys in Ukraine.

  6. Working Paper No. 75 - Financial Openness and Employment: The Need for Coherent International and National Policies

    01 January 2006

  7. Working Paper No. 74 - From Liberalization to Investment and Jobs: Lost in Translation

    01 July 2006

  8. Working Paper No. 73 - Issues in Macroeconomic and Financial Policies, Stability and Growth

    01 January 2006

  9. Working Paper No. 72 - A new methodology for estimating internationally comparable poverty lines and living wage rates

    01 December 2005

  10. Working paper No. 71 - The quantification of respect for selected core labour standards: towards a social development index?

    01 January 2006

  11. Working Paper No. 66 - International labour migration from Bangladesh: A decent work perspective

    01 January 2005

  12. Working Paper No. 65 - The impact of globalization on poverty in Bangladesh

    01 January 2006

    This paper describes the growth-poverty nexus through which the forces of globalization have affected poverty, and focuses on the impact of globalisation on employment.

  13. Documento de trabajo No 63 - Desarrollo local en América Latia: Oportunidas y desafios para el trabajo decente

    01 November 2007

  14. Working Paper No. 61 - Labour developments in dynamic Asia: What do the data show?

    01 December 2005

    This paper describes how labour and social conditions fared in the face of the rapid economic growth and integration of Asia into global markets, focusing on the period since 1990 for 28 countries in the region. This paper also provides evidence bearing on widely discussed questions of policy import, such as how rapid economic growth and globalization affect workers.

  15. Working Paper No. 60 - Informality and Gender in Latin America

    01 December 2005

    This paper makes a valuable contribution to the debate over informality, which is seen alternatively as an opportunity for promising business start-ups and a poverty trap. With the spotlight on microenterprises, the authors’ insights reveal a more complex reality with important gender differences.

  16. Working Paper No. 59 - Social Dialogue Indicators: Trade Union Membership and Collective Bargaining Coverage, Statistical Concepts, Methods and Findings

    01 January 2005

    This working paper discusses the main methodological considerations and some preliminary findings from social dialogue indicators, taking into account the variety of industrial relations systems. It documents the concepts and methods relating to the social dialogue indicators of trade union membership and collective bargaining coverage collected by the joint project during 2003 and 2004.

  17. Working Paper No. 58 - Decent work, standards and indicators

    01 December 2005

    This paper presents a highly detailed and comprehensive method for constructing country profiles based on normative indicators as a tool for progress towards decent work. Country profiles on occupational safety and health (OSH) are available for a large number of countries.

  18. Working Paper No. 57 - Trade unions and informal workers' associations in the urban informal economy of Ecuador

    01 December 2005

    This paper, which forms part of a knowledge-sharing project on the informal economy, provides thought-provoking insights into the situation of Brazil workers in the context of urban Ecuador. Based on interviews, this paper examines ways to increase the voice and representation of informal economy actors as necessary steps in combating poverty

  19. Working Paper No. 56 - Statistical indicators of social dialogue: A compilation of multiple country databases

    01 December 2005

  20. Working Paper No. 55 - The pattern of globalization and some implications for the pursuit of social goals.

    01 January 2005

    This paper explore some of the ways in which globalization might better serve social goals, drawing on the work of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization. The author stresses the challenges posed by the disparity between countries in terms of levels of development and individuals in terms of levels of income.
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