The International Labour Office (ILO) has just published the report “Recovery and Growth with Decent Work”, to be discussed at the ILO’s annual conference.
The study claims that growing instability in financial markets and the sovereign debt crisis in Europe may put global economic and jobs efforts at risk.
Although output has begun to recover, unemployment has [...]
In preparation for the G20 Employment and Labor Ministers Meeting, to be held in Washington DC on April 20-21, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has produced a series of background reports on the evolving employment situation in the context of the global financial crisis. The reports include a statistical overview; a package of country briefs [...]
The International Labour Office (ILO) has just launched the study, “Women in Labour Markets: Measuring Progress and Identifying Challenges”. The report focuses on the relationship of women to labour markets and compares employment for men and women using labour market indicators from the ILO Key Indicators of the Labour Market. The main findings highlight a [...]
The World Bank has just launched the study, Global Economic Prospects 2010. The report warns that while the worst of the crisis may be over, the global recovery remains fragile. Unemployment and spare capacity are likely to continue to characterize the economic landscape for years to come. The global GDP, which declined by 2.2 percent [...]
The ILO’s Employment Trends Team has just launched the report “Global Employment Trends 2010.” The study reveals that unemployment reached its highest level on record in 2009, with the number of jobless worldwide reaching 212 million. Based on IMF forecasts, the ILO estimates that global unemployment is likely to remain high through 2010.
In the developed [...]
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has just published the report, “Private employment agencies, temporary agency workers and their contribution to the labour market.” The study concludes that workers employed by temporary employment agencies have been among the first to lose their jobs as a result of the financial and economic crisis. The biggest temporary job [...]
The International Labour Organization and the WTO have just published a joint study titled “Globalization and Informal Jobs in Developing Countries.” The report has found that the high incidence of informal employment in the developing world suppresses countries’ ability to benefit from trade opening by creating poverty traps for workers in job transition. This study [...]
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have released its second bulletin, “The Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Crisis in Labour Markets and Countercyclical Responses.” The ECLAC/ILO bulletin describes the impact of the crisis on labour markets, beginning with a brief review of [...]
The ILO will be presenting the report “Protecting People, Promoting Jobs” at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Pittsburg on September 24-25 2009. The report is a survey of the employment and social protection policy responses employed by different countries in the wake of the global economic crisis. The study is organized in two chapters. Chapter [...]
The OECD has just launched its report, the Employment Outlook 2009: Tackling the Jobs Crisis, which looks at the effects of the financial and economic crisis on the labor market. It reports that unemployment has increased in most OECD countries. Last July, the OECD’s average unemployment rate rose to 8.5 percent, which is the highest [...]
