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Labour Market Measures in United Kingdom 2008–13: The Crisis and Beyond

The British economy was considered to be in good shape prior to the beginning of the crisis. Actually, the great recession marked the end of a remarkable period of uninterrupted growth. From 1993 to 2007, year-on-year GDP growth averaged a...

Labour Market Measures in Sweden 2008–13: The Crisis and Beyond

In the wake of the global financial crisis, the Swedish economy started to deteriorate rapidly in the second half of 2008, and in 2009 Sweden’s real GDP decreased by 5 per cent. With this severe drop in aggregate demand and output, employment...

Labour Market Measures in Spain 2008–13: The Crisis and Beyond

This report presents a comprehensive analysis of the recent evolution of the Spanish labour market and how labour market policies have responded to the challenges of the crisis. Even compared with other European peripheral countries, Spain has been...

Labour Market Measures in Poland 2008–13: The Crisis and Beyond

The overall picture of the Polish labour market has been shaped by outcomes of the economic transition, which started in the early 1990s. First, rapid privatization and capital inflows induced remarkable technology and productivity improvements,...

Labour Market Measures in Netherlands 2008–13: The Crisis and Beyond

How has the financial crisis affected employment in the Netherlands? What types of policy measures did the government implement to attenuate the impact of the crisis on the labour market during the period 2008-13? How were the social partners...

Labour Market Measures in Latvia 2008–13: The Crisis and Beyond

Latvia was one of the world’s hardest-hit economies during the Great Recession. In 2008–09, Latvian GDP contracted by almost 25 per cent, employment fell by about 20 per cent and the unemployment rate exceeded 21 per cent. The sectors that suffered...

Labour Market Measures in Italy 2008–13: The Crisis and Beyond

This report deals with the Italian reforms undertaken by various Italian governments during the last decade, in order to alleviate the employment cost created by the financial crisis, which hit the country during 2009. According to the review of the...

Labour Market Measures in Ireland 2008–13: The Crisis and Beyond

The period leading up to 2008 was one of rapid growth in the Irish economy. After a long period of low growth, high unemployment and the accumulation of large public debts throughout the late seventies up to the mid-eighties, there was a sustained...

Labour Market Measures in Greece 2008–13: The Crisis and Beyond

This report is an analysis of the main policy responses undertaken by Greece in order to deal with the labour market and social policy contingencies created by the need to correct the huge internal and external imbalances that the 2007–08 global...

Labour Market Measures in Germany 2008–13: The Crisis and Beyond

In 1999, Germany was depicted as the “sick man of Europe” by The Economist. The economic trajectory was characterized by low economic growth and job creation, increasing unemployment, and sluggish structural change. It was thus seen as “an example...

Labour Market Measures in France 2008–13: The Crisis and Beyond

Since 2008 the French economy has been hit hard, first by the global recession and later by the unfolding in­stability in the Eurozone. While having been hit sooner than most of the Eurozone, France was more efficient in limiting the output decline...

Conclusions of the 13th Annual High-Level Meeting between the European Commission and the ILO Office (2017)

Interview

Leif Sande on risks facing oil & gas workers in the arctic

Mr Lief SANDE of the Norwegian union Industri Energi (IE) talks to the ILO on the occasion of the ILO tripartite meeting on Occupational Safety and Health in the oil and gas industry in polar and subarctic climate zones from 26 to 29th January 2016.

The role of migration in the health care sector

On 28 January, the European Commission held its first European Dialogue on Skills and Migration. Christiane Kuptsch, Senior Specialist in Migration Policy at the ILO, took part in a panel discussion on the health sector.

Bangladesh

Compact partners discuss further steps to improve situation of Bangladeshi textile workers

Partners of the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact met in Dhaka to take stock of the progress achieved in improving safety and labour rights in the Bangladeshi ready-made garment industry.

Minister Maxim Topilin Meets Director General of the International Labour Organization Guy Ryder

25 January 2016 – As part of the programme of the first meeting of Ministers of Labour and Employment of the BRICS countries, which opened today in the city of Ufa, Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation Maxim Topilin met...

The Programme of Cooperation between Russia and the International Labour Organization May be Extended

25 January 2016 – During their meeting in the city of Ufa today, the Russian Minister of Labour Maxim Topilin and ILO Director-General Guy Ryder discussed the continued cooperation between the Russian Federation and the ILO on the basis of the...

Malta

Testing Innovative Approaches: Voluntary Peer Review of Youth Employment Policies

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has successfully tested an innovative mechanism - voluntary peer reviews, in which countries assess one another’s youth employment policies and share good practices during joint meetings. It is one of the...

I contribute, therefore I benefit from social security

This video is part of the International Labour Organization awareness raising campaign on the informal economy and undeclared work in Moldova.