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      <title>Minimum wages in Europe: A strategy against wage-dumping policies? </title>
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      <title>Influx of Haitians into the amazon prompts immigration debate in Brazil</title>
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      <title>Government of Canada helps Aboriginal youth develop job skills</title>
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      <title> Canada: Labour Force Survey - January 2012 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;&quot; onclick=&quot;newWin(this.href); return false;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;#149;&amp;nbsp;</title>
      <link>a: Labour Force Survey - January 2012 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;</link>
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      <title>Colombia: Santos dice que desempleo puede superar 10 % hasta marzo de 2012</title>
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      <title>Time to act on youth unemployment - now or never</title>
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      <title>Thousands throng job show in Abu Dhabi </title>
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      <title>New training programmes to encourage Bahraini employment </title>
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      <title>Los españoles mienten para conseguir un peor empleo</title>
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      <title>Portuguese strike flops, workers fear for jobs</title>
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      <title>UK unemployment: are there enough jobs to go round?</title>
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      <title>Precautionary savings in the great recession &lt;span class=&quot;gray&quot;&gt;[pdf 599.8 KB]&lt;/span&gt;</title>
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      <title>United Nations World Youth Report: Youth employment: Youth perspectives on the pursuit of decent work in changing times</title>
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      <title>The dark side of Germany&apos;s jobs miracle</title>
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      <title>Responding to the global financial crisis: The evolution of Asian regionalism and economic globalization &lt;span class=&quot;gray&quot;&gt;[pdf 162.88 KB]&lt;/span&gt;</title>
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      <title>Chinese city of Shenzhen boosts minimum wage</title>
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      <title>Qatar has lowest jobless rate in Middle East: ILO</title>
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      <title>Jordan’s youth struggle amid nation&apos;s rising unemployment rates </title>
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      <title>Saudi Arabia: Fairs make job search easier</title>
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      <title>23 % of EU citizens were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2010 &lt;span class=&quot;gray&quot;&gt;[pdf 120.5 KB]&lt;/span&gt;</title>
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      <title>Meeting the &apos;new homeless&apos; on Greece&apos;s freezing streets</title>
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      <title>¿Quién salva a 24 millones de parados?</title>
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      <title>Employment generation in rural Africa : mid-term results from an experimental evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda &lt;span class=&quot;gray&quot;&gt;[pdf 716.78 KB]&lt;/span&gt;	</title>
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      <title>Micro-determinants of informal employment in the Middle East and North Africa region &lt;span class=&quot;gray&quot;&gt;[pdf 1.25 MB]&lt;/span&gt;	</title>
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      <title>Morocco vows to honour job creation promises </title>
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      <title>South African living standards &apos;on the up&apos;</title>
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      <title>Global Employment Trends 2012: Preventing a deeper jobs crisis &lt;span class=&quot;gray&quot;&gt;[pdf 1636 KB]&lt;/span&gt;	</title>
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      <title>Kuwait: discrimination against foreign workers and use of forced labour persist </title>
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      <title>Banco Mundial: América Latina tendrá crecimiento lento pero sin recesión</title>
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      <title>Japan: Suppliers cut jobs amid yen battering</title>
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      <title>Chile: Fundación Sol: “Gobierno no debe olvidar que 700 mil empleos son precarios”</title>
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      <title>The Impact of the crisis on wages in South-East Europe &lt;span class=&quot;gray&quot;&gt;[pdf 1890 KB]&lt;/span&gt;	</title>
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