Presents trends and estimates of the poor, near poor and middle class working population in developing Asia and the Pacific.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper, emanating from a WEP research project concerned with population and employment, on the impact of internal migration on occupational structure and income distribution in Brazil - covers the impact of rural migration on urban area unemployment, demographic traits of...

Examines the impact on labour markets in advanced countries of the integration of the two fast-growing countries, China and India, with the liberalized global economy.

Discusses the effects of two recent economic crises, 1998-1999 and 2008-2009, on gender and racial inequalities in Brazil. Argues that the effects of these crises on qualitative aspects of employment such as wages and employment status have been unequally felt by women and blacks in Brazilian...

Covers data from 1991 to 1997. Based on interviews undertaken in ten multinational enterprises. Includes comparisons with MERCOSUR countries.

Working paper introducing an econometric model to test the labour economics of child labour in Indian rural areas. Analyses impact of wage rates, land ownership, labour supply, employment opportunities, parental employment (esp. women workers and married women) and children labour force...