Books and reports
January 2017
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Flagship Report
World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2017
12 January 2017
This edition takes stock of the current global labour market situation, assessing the most recent employment developments and forecasting unemployment levels in developed, emerging and developing countries. It also focuses on trends in job quality, paying particular attention to working poverty and vulnerable employment.
January 2012
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Publication
Measuring the Economically Active in Population Censuses: A Handbook
20 January 2012
The Handbook provides guidance on the measurement of economic characteristics in population censuses, based on relevant experiences of countries, with a particular focus on the questions used and the requirements for processing of responses.
October 2011
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Publication
Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM). Seventh edition
14 October 2011
This valuable wide-ranging reference tool meets the ever-increasing demand for timely, accurate and accessible information on the rapidly changing world of work. The Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) offers the general user with instant and uncomplicated access to data and analysis on the world's labour markets.
January 2010
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Publication
Key indicators of the labour market (KILM). Sixth edition (includes CD-ROM)
27 January 2010
This valuable wide-ranging reference tool meets the ever-increasing demand for timely, accurate and accessible information on the rapidly changing world of work. Now in its 10th year, the Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) offers the general user with instant and uncomplicated access to data and analysis on the world's labour markets.
July 2009
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Publication
2008 Labour Overview. Latin America and the Caribbean
01 July 2009
This edition provides evidence of the effects of an unprecedented international crisis that has cast a shadow over the global economy and is reflected in the employment situation in the region. Employment will be a challenge in 2009. As ILO Director-General, Juan Somavia stated, "The ILO's message is realistic, not alarmist" with respect to this situation.
March 2009
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Publication
Report II - Measurement of working time - 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, Geneva, 24 November - 5 December 2008
02 March 2009
The International Labour Organization has long been concerned with the regulation of working time as one aspect which has a direct and measurable impact on the health and well-being of working persons, their level of fatigue and stress (and on that of the people close to them). It also has an important impact on productivity levels and labour costs for establishments, and on the general quality of life in all countries.
February 2009
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Publication
Child labour statistics. Report III. 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS/18/2008). Geneva, 24 November-5 December 2008
03 February 2009
This report aims at setting standards of good practice on the collection, compilation and analysis of national child labour statistics, guiding countries to update their existing statistical system in this field or to establish a new one where necessary.
August 2008
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Publication
Sources and methods: Labour statistics. Employment in the tourism industries (Special edition) Co-published with the World Tourism Organization
20 August 2008
Sources and Methods: Labour Statistics - Employment in the tourism industries (Special edition) is the first of three volumes to come out of a joint project by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) to improve national methods of data collection of employment in the tourism industries.
February 2008
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Publication
Key indicators of the labour market (Fifth edition) with interactive CD-ROM (Trilingual English/French/Spanish)
04 February 2008
KILM provides a valuable, wide-ranging reference tool to meet the ever-increasing demand for timely, accurate and accessible information on the rapidly changing world of work. It includes all the basic statistics used to calculate 20 key labour market indicators allowing researchers to compare and contrast between economies and within regions across time. The fifth edition of the KILM also includes interactive software which makes searching for relevant information quick and simple.
July 2007
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Publication
Occupational wages and hours of work and retail food prices. Statistics from the ILO October Inquiry 2007 (Trilingual En, Fr, Sp)
26 July 2007
This volume presents the latest results of the ILO October Inquiry, a worldwide survey of wages and hours of work relating to 159 occupations in 49 industry groups and of retail prices of 93 food items, conducted with reference to the month of October each year. It was initiated in 1924 to give effect to a resolution of the First International Conference of Labour Statisticians (1923), and has been conducted regularly ever since. A major revision and expansion of the Inquiry was introduced in October 1985.