Reviews the principal approaches to social dialogue in the Americas since the 1940s and explores the role of social dialogue as a means of adjustment to the processes of globalization and economic and technological change. Discusses the role of social dialogue in relation to the public sector...

Reviews the principal approaches to social dialogue in the Americas since the 1940s and explores the role of social dialogue as a means of adjustment to the processes of globalization and economic and technological change. Discusses the role of social dialogue in relation to the public sector...

Examines processes of economic integration and globalization and explores the links between these processes and the world of work. Summarizes regulatory labour standards built into the process of Latin American and Caribbean integration and investigates their effect on the labour market and on...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the employment implications of disarmament - based on data from Western Europe and North America and assuming an employment policy of full employment, considers unemployment, and the potential for reassignment and labour utilization with regard to the...

North American urban areas have changed dramatically over the last four decades. While downtowns were thought to be in long-term decline 40 years ago, central business districts are today the most vibrant residential and commercial centers throughout a largely suburban continent. This paper...

It is shown in the short comment that the sea levels are oscillating about a longer-term trend and that the sea level rise (SLR) computed with time windows of 20, 30 or 60 years also oscillates, with the amplitude of these latter oscillations reducing as the time window increases. The use of...

The economic crisis which we are currently suffering has highlighted the greater stability of financial services cooperatives (FSC) in juxtaposition to the fragility of the rest of the banking sector. This has resulted in a resurgence of the cooperative form not only due to the positive effects...

The nation’s economic strategy has been the formation of trade blocks under the theory of comparative advantage. However, empirical evidence shows that the multipliers of trade on economic structure not all countries are as predicted by theory. This paper analyzes Feedback and Spillover...