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The global financial crisis has triggered a serious slowdown in world economic growth
including recession in the largest industrialized countries. Enterprises have stopped hiring
and many are laying off workers in considerable numbers ... Experience shows that the longer people stay out of work the more their “employability” deteriorates, making it progressively harder to get back into work.
Global Employment Trends 2009 (pdf 916 KB) |
Overview:
• How to tackle the crisis - ILO tools and good practices
• Employment and labour market policies • Job creation • Skills development • Work reorganization
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How to tackle the crisis - ILO tools and good practices
Employment intensive programme
Local economic development
- Local economic development for employment generation, peace and security : approaches, tools, and good practices in the Philippines (pdf 2.83 MB)
ILO, 2007
- Micro finance for self-employment in industrialized countries : good practice guide (pdf 276 KB)
ILO, 2003
- Community contracts in urban infrastructure works : practical lessons from experience (pdf 19 MB) • French (pdf 3 MB)
J. Tournée, W. van Esch, ILO, 2001
- Organisation, negotiation and contracting in development programmes and projects : a study of current practice the community level (pdf 3.1 MB)
P. Oakley, ILO, 2001
- Nurturing the growth of small enterprises : a brief overview to policies, laws and regulations that maximise small enterprise development and employment growth (pdf 468 KB)
S. White, ILO, 2001
- The Urban material source book : a guide for community-managed and labour-based upgrading of urban low-income settlements (pdf 113 KB)
G. Simba, J. Fransen, ILO, 2000
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Lessons learned from previous crises
Other solutions
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Employment and labour market policies
- Entretien avec Pascal Lamy : «Le protectionnisme ne protège pas» (Video), Le Temps, 3 June 2009
- Fiscal stimulus with spending reversals, G. Corsetti, A. Meier, G. Müller, International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1st May 2009
- Arab country responses to the global economic crisis, Ibrahim Saif and Farah Choucair, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, International Economics Bulletin, April 2009
- Eonomic and social survey of Asia and the Pacific 2009 : Addressing Triple Threats to Development
• Chapter 4 - Subregional variations : performance and policy reponses (pdf 443 KB), UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, April 2009
- Fiscal packages across OECD countries: overview and country details (pdf 511 KB), OECD, Economic Department, 31 March 2009
- Recommendations of Policy Responses to the Global Financial and Economic Crisis for East Asian Leaders, Asian Development Bank Institute, 19 March 2009
- Tackling the Global Jobs Crisis:
Why the G20 Summit Matters (pdf 622 KB)
D. Coats, W. Hutton, M. Razzanelli, The Work Foundation, March 2009
- Global financial turmoil
and emerging market economies : major contagion and a shocking loss of wealth? (pdf 1.56 MB)
C.M. Loser, Asian Development Bank, March 2009
- Stimulus Measures Bolstering Demand Amid Crisis, IMF Says
IMF, 06 February 2009
- Economic recovery and employment : an IOE statement (pdf 109 KB)
International Organisation of Employers, 09 February 2009
- What should be done about rising unemployment in the UK? (pdf 1.1 MB), D.N.F. Bell, D.G. Blanchflower, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor, February 2009
- Cracks in the System
O. Blanchard, IMF, 12.2008
- Jobs, jobs, jobs : the policy challenge (pdf 408 KB)
International Poverty Centre, December 2008
Job creation
- Green jobs for the poor : a public employment approach - Discussion paper (pdf 454 KB)
M. R. Lieuw-Kie-Song, United Nations Development Programme, April 2009
- The Social and Economic Importance of Full Employment - Working Paper No. 560 (pdf 109 KB)
L. Randall Wray, The Levy Economics Institute of bard College, April 2009
- Unemployment in the current crisis
M. Elsby, B. Hobijn, A. Sahin, VoxEU, 14 February 2009
- The unemployment challenge : labour market policies for the recession - A public discussion document (pdf 3.6 MB), G. Andrews, J.P. de Raad, NZIER, February 2009
- Obama's Job Creation Promise - A Modest Proposal to Guarantee That He Meets and Exceeds Expectations
P.R.Tcherneva, The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, January 2009
- Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: The Relationship to Youth Employment
J. Gruber, K. Milligan, D. A. Wise, National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2009
- Hard Labour: Jobs, unemployment and the recession
I. Brinkley [et al.], The Work Foundation, November 2008
- Life After Longbridge: Three Years On
M. Mahdon, The Work Foundation, November 2008
Skills development
Work reorganization
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