Assesses the gender-differentiated impact of globalization in the past and the recent financial crisis on employment in the modern formal sector. Provides an economic assessment of the possible future of the formal labour market and suggests various policy options required for the adjustment...

Comprises seven case studies taken from a larger project on rural labour markets and employment policies. Examines how rural labour markets function and the complex factors that condition their outcomes.

ILO pub. Article on vocational guidance practices in Latin America - discusses major results of a questionnaire survey showing that vocational guidance services are limited in terms of target group, and by lack of overall labour market information. References.

ILO pub. Article reviewing results of a series of ILO-initiated experiments using 'key informants' for local level data collecting of labour market information (labour force and employment) in South East Asia and Antigua and Barbuda - covers organization, implementation and project evaluation,...

ILO pub. Article on economic implications of child labour in developing countries - develops a typology of child employment consisting of homemaker duties, unpaid work, forced labour, wages labour, informal sector, schooling, leisure and reproductive activities, reviews different kinds of...