Explores trends in strikes and lockouts from the 1960s to 2002. Highlights problems of cross-country comparability and gaps in coverage and makes recommendations for improving the collection of strike activity data.

Based on data collected by the International Social Survey Programme in 1987, 1992 and 1999. Explores perceptions of social inequality over time in a number of organized market economies, countries undergoing transition, developing countries and English-speaking countries. Examines perceptions...

Provides information on short term changes in a number of labour market indicators at the sector-specific level, both in developing and developed economies.

Paper focuses on censuses and sample surveys as a means of generating the data required for migration analysis.

Examines international and regional standards relating to protection of child performers, key elements for protection, the regulation and monitoring of working conditions and collective agreement provisions.

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on population theory - discusses interactions between causes and present and future consequences of fertility change, its decrease in western developed countries and low birth rate in Eastern Europe and China, the case for birth control in developing countries, and...

Covers the numbers of persons employed, the volume of health care expenditure, the machinery for fixed remuneration, the systems of job classification, the respective roles of the social partners, and the different elements making up take-home pay. Comparisons with other occupations, between the...

Examines the effects of the crisis on employment conditions, job loss, labour relations, and the preferred socially responsible responses. Includes the questionnaires, addressed to management and unions, on changed working conditions, flexible work practice, role of collective agreements, and...

Estimates the global magnitude of forced labour profits in order to throw light on the scale of this economic exploitation.