Global Employment Trends 2014 : Risk of a jobless recovery?

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Cover; Copyright page; Contents; Tables; Boxes; Figures; Preface; Executive summary; 1. Macroeconomic challenges and global labour market developments; Figure 1. Global and regional GDP growth estimates and projections, 2011-15 (per cent); Figure 2. Evolution of global GDP growth estimates and projections, 2013 and 2014 (per cent); Figure 3. The crisis-related global jobs gap; Figure 4. Global unemployment trends and projections, 2003-18; Figure 5. Annual change in global unemployment and GDP growth,2000-18, baseline and downside scenario

Table 1. Global, regional and country-specific estimates and projections of the total unemployment rate, 2007-16 (percentage points)Box 1. What explains differences in unemployment projections?; Figure 6. Average annual change in the youth unemployment rate,selected time periods (percentage points); Figure 7. Young people that are neither in employment, nor in education or training (NEET) as the share of the population aged 15-29(2007 and most recent year); Table 2. The global wage employment gap (millions)

Figure 8. Annual output growth per worker, world and regions, selected periods (per cent)Figure 9. Estimated informal employment shares, 2011 (per cent); Figure 10. Average unemployment duration in selected economies (months); Figure 11. Macroeconomic uncertainty in selected economies; Figure 12. Contribution of hiring uncertainty to the increase in the unemployment rate since 2007 in the United States (percentage points); Figure 13. GDP growth rates in BRICS countries (per cent); Figure 14. Sectoral employment shares and economic development

Figure 15. Trajectory of annual GDP per capita before and after the yeara country reaches US3,000 (constant 2005 PPP)Box 2. MDG employment indicators; Figure 16. Changes in employment by economic class,selected time periods and regions; 2. Regional economic and labour market developments; Table 3. Labour market situation and outlook in Developed Economies and European Union (per cent); Figure 17. Job losses by age group - Selected OECD economies (2012 vs 2007); Figure 18. Skills mismatch: 2005 vs 2012; Figure 19. Increase in unemployment driven by longer unemployment duration

Box 3. Are house price cycles responsible for the slow jobs recovery?Figure 20. Changes in trend unemployment; Figure 21. GDP and employment recoveries around recession turning points (G7 countries); Table 4. Labour market situation and outlook in Central and South-Eastern Europe (non-EU) and CIS (per cent); Figure 22. Annual GDP growth in Latin America, 1991-2018 (per cent); Table 5. Labour market situation and outlook in Latin America and the Caribbean (per cent); Figure 23. Informal employment structure, 2009-12 (per cent); Figure 24. Labour productivity index, 2000-18

Box 4. Labour flows in Mexico: Formal versus informal flows of workers

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