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-WEP pub. Working paper on industrial structure change in a small open economy, comprising a case study of adjustment successes in the Netherlands - discusses the economic structure, economic growth trends (1960-1983), and impact of economic recession and international division of labour...

Identifies to what extent, and in which way external shocks and the need for a different development pattern has affected economic growth in for Eastern European countries.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on export-led economic growth and employment in Korea R, 1945 to 1982 - covers economic planning, foreign investment, the labour market, labour productivity, trade unions, the industrial sector (especially the textile industry and the electronics industry) and...