Publications on Employment Security

  1. Working paper

    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.

  2. Publication

    Protecting the working poor. Annual report 2010

    09 May 2011

    This is the third Annual Report of the Microinsurance Innovation Facility, launched in 2008 by the International Labour Organization (ILO) with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

  3. Publication

    Offshoring and working conditions in remote work

    07 June 2010

    Advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs), combined with organizations seeking to reduce costs, have led to a dramatic growth in service sector offshoring and outsourcing, most notably to developing countries such as India. This is a co-publication with Palgrave MacMillan Publishing.

  4. Publication

    Women in labour markets: Measuring progress and identifying challenges

    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.

  5. Publication

    Labour law and worker protection in developing countries

    06 February 2010

    This study reflects on labour law’s ability, in its current form, to protect workers’ rights and secure decent working conditions in the developing world. It identifies and examines structural weaknesses and challenges brought about by globalization and, against this background, explores regulatory and policy responses which have been made at different governance levels to enhance the scope and application of labour regulation, focusing particularly on Latin America, South Asia and southern Africa. This is a co-publication with Hart Publishing.

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    Concealed chains: Labour exploitation and Chinese migrants in Europe

    28 January 2010

    This groundbreaking book exposes the hidden world of Chinese irregular migrants in three European countries: France, Italy and the United Kingdom. Chinese workers migrating to Europe pay huge sums of money to intermediaries, often leaving them trapped in debt before they even begin their journey.

  7. Publication

    ILO Summit on the global jobs crisis. June 2009

    21 December 2009

    The ILO Summit on the Global Jobs Crisis was held on 15-17 June 2009 in Geneva, in response to the financial crisis and its grave impact on global unemployment, poverty and inequality. Addressed by Heads of State and Government, Vice-Presidents, Ministers and leaders of workers' and employers' organizations from around the world, the Summit featured three days of intense debate on different aspects of the crisis.

  8. Publication

    Offshoring and employment in the developing world: Business process outsourcing in the Philippines

    20 November 2009

    Employment Working Paper No. 41

  9. Publication

    Private employment agencies, temporary agency workers and their contribution to the labour market. WPEAC/2009

    02 October 2009

    Private employment agencies play an important role in the functioning of contemporary labour markets. They act as intermediaries in modern labour markets, allowing enterprises greater flexibility to increase or decrease their workforces, while ensuring for the workers sufficient security in terms of job opportunities and employment standards, including pay, working time and training.

  10. Publication

    Tackling the global jobs crisis. Recovery through decent work policies

    15 May 2009

    This report proposes the initial elements of a Global Jobs Pact based on the policy orientations provided by the Governing Body in November 2008 and March 2009 and by recent regional and sectoral tripartite ILO meetings on responses to the crisis. It also reflects the G20 London Jobs Conference and the meeting of the G8+6 Labour and Employment Ministers in Rome (March 2009), which welcomed with interest the International Labour Conference discussion on a Global Jobs Pact.