Offers a comparative analysis of recent developments in collective bargaining, with particular respect to negotiations on employment and competitiveness.

Based on data from 109 agreements, mainly in the engineering industry, discusses the trend to arrange flexible working schedules at plant level and the potential impact of these agreements on employment security and job creation.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper, comparison of the labour market impact of public expenditure for defence in Canada, France, Germany, Federal Republic, Norway, Sweden, UK and USA - examines the econometric models used to assess potential employment creation or unemployment in the construction...

Discusses economic and employment conditions in Turkey and suggests ways of improving them in order to reduce the flow of Turkish workers to Germany.

ILO pub. Working paper on employment effects of multinational enterprise in Germany, Federal Republic - examines the role of foreign investment in changing industrial structure, employment creation, labour mobility to plants abroad, etc. As well as the role of developing countries imports, and...

Examines the crucial contribution of employment and incomes to a sustainable recovery and assesses how policies can best be designed in order to promote employment and incomes, taking into account the lessons learned from country experiences since the start of the global crisis in 2008.