Examines ways of measuring the impact of community and institutional variables on individual fertility.

Outlines the global structure of the textiles and clothing industry and reviews trading patterns under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), highlighting the impact of trade policies in the European Union and the USA. Examines the issue of labour standards as a new non-tariff barrier to trade....

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper emanating from a WEP research project, on the implications of technological change over the simulation period in the bachue models for population and employment in developing countries - examines technological change in the input output matrix, etc., and considers...

Working paper on the impact of information technology on the role of service sectors in trade and commerce. Describes the trend towards the increasingly important economic role of telecommunications in providing services for the domestic market and international market. Explains the comparative...

Discusses the lessons that can be learned in the sphere of industrial relations from past crises in different parts of the world and highlights some recent industrial relations developments at the national, sectoral and enterprise levels since the beginning of the current crisis in the late...

Describes the adjustment procedures used to reconcile national labour force statistics in 26 countries with ILO international standards. Includes statistical tables for the period 1980-1989.

Discusses how to use franchising as a means of integrating the informal sector into mainstream economic life.

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper focusing on issues of survey and sample design with regard to internal migration data collecting in developing countries - covers methodology, questionnaire characteristics, choice of respondent, sampling frames and clusters, tracing techniques, etc., Presents case...