The global employment challenge /
This volume offers an in-depth analysis of the state of employment in the world today, providing a detailed and comprehensive picture of the serious challenges faced by today's policy-makers ...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Geneva :
International Labour Office,
2008.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; APPENDIX; 2 WORLD LABOUR FORCE STRUCTURE AND ITS EVOLUTION; 2.1 Structure and characteristics; 2.2 The main trends; 2.3 Future outlook; 3 GLOBALIZATION IN ANUNEQUAL WORLD; 3.1 Asymmetric distribution of productive resources; 3.2 Capital flows and investment in developingcountries; 3.3 Labour flows and supply of labour and skills indeveloping countries; 4 PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYMENT INDEVELOPING COUNTRIES; 4.1 The nature of employment and unemployment indeveloping countries; 4.2 Assessing the employment situation in adeveloping country.
- 4.3 The current state of employment4.4 Recent trends; 4.5 Economic growth and employment; 4.6 Employment effects of capital inflow and tradegrowth; 4.7 Policy challenges; 5 THE EMPLOYMENT-POVERTY INTERFACE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; 5.1 Reducing global poverty; 5.2 Did poverty decline in the 1990s?; 5.3 Economic growth and poverty reduction; 5.4 The employment-poverty interface; 5.5 Trade growth and the poor; 5.6 Policies for poverty reduction; 6 PERSISTENT EMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; 6.1 Employment and unemployment in developed countries; 6.2 Persisting trends.
- 6.3 Finding explanations6.4 The labour market reforms of the 1990s and their effects; 6.5 Policies for the future; 7 SYSTEMIC TRANSITION AND JOB CRISIS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; 7.1 The current state of employment; 7.2 Recent trends; 7.3 Explaining the trends; 7.4 Policy challenges; 8 EMPLOYMENT DRIFT IN COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES; 8.1 Overall employment situation and its evolution; 8.2 Identifying the drivers; 8.3 Policy perspective; 9 A SUMMING-UP; REFERENCES; INDEX; Boxes; Box 2.1 Women's labour force participation: India, 2000.
- Box 2.2 Religion, culture and women's labour force participationBox 2.3 Skill, education and employment: India, 2000; Box 2.4 Demographic transition; Box 2.5 Population and labour force ageing; Box 3.1 Does foreign aid help poor countries?; Box 3.2 Data on international migration; Box 3.3 High-skilled migrants and remittances; Box 4.1 Formal and non-formal segments; Box 4.2 Surplus labour; Box 4.3 How does the labour market work in a dual economy?; Box 4.4 Identifying formal and non-formal segments; Box 4.5 Dualism within sectors: Brazil and India.
- Box 4.6 The skill gap between formal and non-formal segmentsBox 4.7 Unemployment rate: Nature of the data; Box 4.8 Unemployment in South Africa; Box 4.9 Chronic unemployment rate as a measure of queuing:India and Brazil; Box 4.10 Job queuing and gender: India and Brazil; Box 4.11 Formal employment in China in the 1990s; Box 5.1 Strategies for poverty reduction: The shift in focus; Box 5.2 Counting the poor; Box 5.3 Economic growth and poverty: Some other evidence; Box 5.4 Poverty and output per worker in the non-formal segment; Box 5.5 Trade orientation, economic growth and poverty.
