Global Employment Trends 2004. ILO: Geneva

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Foreword

Global Employment Trends 2004 is the second annual report on world labour markets. In 2003 the ILO released its first annual report on global employment trends to fill the demand for a timely and comprehensive analysis of current labour market trends. This volume is one of three ILO reports – 1) Global Employment Trends, 2) Key Indicators of the Labour Market and 3) World Employment Report – a series of three flagship studies designed to offer a more complete view of global, regional and national labour market issues.

This edition of Global Employment Trends 2004 was prepared by Dorothea Schmidt with Marva Corley, who performed the analysis with the help of the Employment Trends Team and the support of members of the Employment Sector. Valuable inputs on regional developments were provided by colleagues in Genva and in the field. Fruitful interchanges in collaboration with ILO Regional and Sub-Regional Offices have contributed greatly to the report’s analytical base; specific mention should be given to Monica Castillo (Lima), Sandrine Cazes (Budapest), Martina Lubyova (Moscow), Elizabeth Morris (Bangkok), Sasithorn Santiwongsakul (Beirut), Reynold Simons (Port of Spain) and Jesper Venema (San Jose). Sara Elder, Harvey Clavien, Isabelle Guillet, Tariq Haq, Habib Millwala and Alan Wittrup assisted with the analysis, organization and evaluation of the set of labour market indicators and databases used in the report. Technical support in preparing and refining the econometric model and estimates was provided by Gustavo Crespi and Steve Kapsos. Christine Sutton provided administrative support and technical assistance. Geraldeen Fitzgerald edited the manuscript.
It would be remiss not to thank the ILO Bureau of Statistics (STAT) for providing access to the national estimates, and in particular Messaoud Hammouya for his support associated with the ILO’s LABPROJ database. The chief of the Employment Trends Team was Lawrence Jeff Johnson.

This report focuses on labour market trends and underlines the main employment challenges – both at the global level and in eight regions of the world. The report draws attention to key policy challenges posed by the identified trends, but it does not aim at presenting comprehensive policy recommendations to overcome these challenges. Every attempt has been made to incorporate the latest
available information in an ongoing process; the ILO will update and revise both global and regional estimates as information becomes available from national and international sources. Emphasis has been laid on the growth of employment and unemployment, youth unemployment and the employment of women. Such developments are profiled in the light of economic and general labour market conditions in a worldwide context.

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