Based on interviews with officers and workers in four banks and four insurance companies in each country.

Die Entwicklung der Bevölkerung geriet in Deutschland infolge der gegenwärtigen Finanzkrise der öffentlichen Haushalte und der Systeme sozialer Sicherung in den Focus des öffentlichen Interesses. Die in den meisten hochentwickelten Ländern sich abzeichnende Alterung und Schrumpfung der...

Describes the effect of HIV/AIDS on East African society and makes recommendations for actions to be taken and research to be carried out.

Reviews Chinese labour market developments during the 1980s and 1990s and proposes policy directions to help accelerate the creation of new jobs.

ILO pub. Working paper on the effects of multinational enterprise on employment, illustrated by a case study of France and the role of France in the international division of labour - examines activities of foreign and French subsidiaries of multinationals, their employment creation, labour...

Examines the micro- and macroeconomic implications of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, focusing on effects on the labour market and employment in sub-Saharan Africa. Includes population projections in Africa to 2020.

Britain's labour force industrialised early. The industrial and service sectors already accounted for 40% of the labour force in 1381, and a substantial further shift of labour out of agriculture occurred between 1522 and 1700. From the early seventeenth century rising agricultural labour...

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