Publications
2013
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The Philippines Employment Projections Model: Employment targeting and scenarios
15 May 2013
Employment Working Paper No. 140
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Perspectives on Labour Economics for Development
01 March 2013
Perspectives on Labour Economics for Development seeks to provide a comprehensive, but non-technical, coverage of labour market issues in a developing country context to help policy-makers and other readers improve their capacity to understand these topics and develop appropriate and effective policy responses. This book is an invaluable reference for policy-makers in middle- and low-income countries as well as an ideal handbook for teachers and students of economics and development.
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How not to count the employed in developing countries
29 January 2013
Employment Working Paper No. 136
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Global Employment Trends 2013: Recovering from a second jobs dip
22 January 2013
Five years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the study offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.
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Global Employment Trends 2013: Recovering from a second jobs dip [Summary]
22 January 2013
Five years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the study offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.
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Guide to the Millennium Development Goals Employment Indicators, second edition
03 January 2013
2012
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Global Employment Trends for Women 2012
15 December 2012
Part of the Global Employment Trends series, this publication delivers the most current information on emerging trends and key challenges facing women in labour markets around the world.
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Global Employment Outlook September 2012: Bleak Labour Market Prospects for Youth
04 September 2012
This update of the Global Employment Trends Report 2012 shows that jobless rates among young people will get even worse globally as the spillover of the euro crisis spreads from advanced to emerging economies.
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ILO-World Bank Joint Synthesis Report: Inventory of Policy Responses to the Financial and Economic Crisis
03 August 2012
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Brief profile on Industrial Policy for Productive Transformation
28 May 2012
Employment for social justice and a fair globalization
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Brief profile on Labour Market Information and Trends
25 May 2012
Employment for social justice and a fair globalization
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Brief profile on Labour Market Policies and Institutions
25 May 2012
Employment for social justice and a fair globalization
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Global Employment Trends for Youth 2012
22 May 2012
The study examines the continuing job crisis affecting young people in many parts of the world. It provides updated statistics on global and regional youth unemployment rates and presents ILO policy recommendations to curb the current trends.
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Executive summary of the "Global Employment Trends for Youth 2012"
17 May 2012
The 2012 study examines the continuing job crisis affecting young people in many parts of the world. It provides updated statistics on global and regional youth unemployment rates and presents ILO policy recommendations to curb the current trends.
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Global Employment Outlook, April 2012 projections
27 April 2012
The global jobs challenge has worsened since the beginning of 2012. New projections indicate that globally 202 million people will be seeking a job this year.
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Social protection and minimum wages responses to the 2008 financial and economic crisis: Findings from the ILO/World Bank Inventory
08 March 2012
Employment Working Paper No. 113
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Addressing the employment challenge: India's MGNREGA
08 March 2012
This paper examines, in particular, the effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) programme on employment, wages and incomes of the rural poor. It also considers its effect on overall growth of the economy.
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ILO Estimates of the Economically Active Population 1990-2010 (Sixth Edition)
01 March 2012
Economic and Labour Market Paper, March 2012
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Global Employment Trends 2012: Preventing a deeper jobs crisis
24 January 2012
The annual Global Employment Trends report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.
2011
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Diverging trends in unemployment in the United States and Europe: Evidence from Okun's law and the global financial crisis
21 December 2011
This paper presents estimates of Okun’s coefficients for a number of developed countries, and shows that there is considerable variation across countries, which captures the heterogeneity in the responsiveness of unemployment to the global financial crisis. The paper also looks at the relationship between these coefficients and labour market institutions.