Publications

2010 

• Women in labour markets: Measuring progress and identifying challenges - [pdf 7697 KB]
  05 March 2010 - This report uses labour market indicators to measure progress or lack of progress towards the goal of gender equality in the world of work and identify where and why blockages to labour market equity continue to exist.
• Unravelling the impact of the global financial crisis on the South African labour market - [pdf 304 KB]
  17 February 2010 - Employment Working Paper No. 48
• Global Employment Trends, January 2010 - [pdf 1112 KB]
  26 January 2010 - An update of the annual ILO Global Employment Trends series, available since 2003
• Trends Econometric Models: A Review of Methodology - [pdf 577 KB]
  19 January 2010 - Provides a detailed description of the methodology used in the Global Employment Trends Model.

2009 

• The global recession and developing countries - [pdf 388 KB]
  23 December 2009 - Employment Working Paper No. 40
• Offshoring and employment in the developing world: Business process outsourcing in the Philippines - [pdf 314 KB]
  20 November 2009 - Employment Working Paper No. 41
• A survey of the Great Depression as recorded in the International Labour Review, 1931-1939 - [pdf 329 KB]
  15 October 2009 - Employment Working Paper No. 42
• The well-being of labour in contemporary Indian economy : what’s active labour market policy got to do with it? - [pdf 480 KB]
  04 September 2009 - Employment Working Paper No. 39
• Labour market policies in times of crisis - [pdf 699 KB]
  30 August 2009 - Employment Working Paper No. 35
• Guide to the new Millennium Development Goals Employment indicators : including the full decent work indicator set - [pdf 1885 KB]
  10 July 2009
• Rising food prices and their implications for employment, decent work and poverty reduction - [pdf 357 KB]
  23 June 2009 - Employment Working Paper No. 30
• Global Employment Trends, Update May 2009 - [pdf 4430 KB]
  28 May 2009 - An update of the annual ILO Global Employment Trends series, available since 2003
• Labour market information and analysis for skills development - [pdf 451 KB]
  30 March 2009 - Employment Working Paper No. 27
• Global Employment Trends for Women, March 2009 - [pdf 607 KB]
  05 March 2009 - ILO's fourth edition of the Global Employment Trends for Women

2008 

• Global Employment Trends for Youth, October 2008 - [pdf 764 KB]
  01 October 2008 - ILO's third edition of the Global Employment Trends for Youth
• The employment effects of North-South trade and technological change - [pdf 271 KB]
  01 June 2008 - Employment Working Paper No. 22
• Is Asia adopting flexicurity? : A survey of employment policies in six countries - [pdf 626 KB]
  01 May 2008 - Economic and Labour Market Paper 2008/4
• The global employment challenge
  01 May 2008 - 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...
• Active labour market policies around the world. Coping with the consequences of globalization. (Second edition)
  30 April 2008 - This revised and updated edition provides an authoritative account of how active labour market policies (ALMPs) can help make globalization work better in the interest of workers around the world.
• Economic Growth, Employment and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa - [pdf 376 KB]
  01 April 2008 - Employment Working Paper No. 19