Examines the effects of awareness-raising programmes at different levels of education on the promotion of self-employment and entrepreneurship as career options for young people entering the labour market. Provides examples of programmes in developed, developing and transition countries,...

Comprises short descriptions of 166 current and recently completed programmes for entrepreneurship education. Covers programmes in secondary schools, technical and vocation education and universities as well as programmes outside formal education. Includes descriptions of training packages...

Uses a gravity trade model to estimate the effects of child labour and education on exports from 1993 to 1999, evaluating total exports, total manufacturing exports and manufacturing exports broken down by labour and skill intensity of production using four different classifications of...

ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Working paper analyzing trends in public expenditure on rural development, education and health services to satisfy basic needs in Ecuador from 1970 to 1980 - considers the socioeconomic disparities and rural urban disparities in the impact on household income, access...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the eradication of child labour and the evolution of youth policy in the USSR - comments on labour legislation concerning the minimum age and employment conditions of young workers, and covers the institution of compulsory education, the social integration of...

Describes the framework of the Tourism Labour Accounting System (TLAS), an extension of the Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA). Provides guidance on identifying relevant sources of national statistics to obtain and present estimates on employment and conditions of work in the tourism sector....

Se analizan el diseño y el mantenimiento de unos sistemas nacionales de protección social que aseguren una utilización eficaz y eficiente de los recursos disponibles en los ámbitos comunitario, nacional e internacional, al tiempo que un apoyo al desarrollo económico a largo plazo....

Looks at the fundamental importance of employment for development.

ILO pub. Article on target setting methodology to guide the operation of basic needs programmes in developing countries - proposes setting targets in terms of expected results, paying particular attention to functional linkages and to the obstacles hindering the most poverty-stricken groups from...