Based on data from 109 agreements, mainly in the engineering industry, discusses the trend to arrange flexible working schedules at plant level and the potential impact of these agreements on employment security and job creation.

In principle, two different types of working-time instruments were used to introduce working-time changes during the crisis. First, work-sharing schemes (with their country-specific institutional background and public subsidies); second, working-time adjustments based on unilateral or bilateral...

Examines the situation of Ethiopian women migrants, in both sending and receiving countries. Includes review of national and international legislation, initiatives, policies, and programmes to assist and protect women migrants against exploitation and abuse.

Corporate scandals are reflected in excessive top management compensation and fraudulent accounts. These scandals cause an enormous amount of damage, not only to the companies affected, but also to the market economy as a whole. As a solution, conventional wisdom suggests more monitoring and...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the effects on fertility of seven economic policy experiments using the bachue demographic-economic model for the Philippines - constitutes part of a WEP research project on population and employment. References and statistical tables.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the decentralization of planning in India - discusses objectives, institutional framework, resource allocation, administrative aspects, co-ordination between local level and national planning, etc., includes case studies of rural development and rural employment...