ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on a comparison of employment policies for migrant workers in Germany, Federal Republic, France and Switzerland, drawing lessons for the USA - outlines trends in the number of seasonal workers and other workers given work permits from 1950 to 1979, and studies...

Based on information collected from a sample survey of 480 Korean migrants who had worked in the Middle East, and in-depth interviews with 39 households.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper comprising a comparison of the urban area school age population in El Salvador and the Sudan, to determine the contribution of children to family income (as unpaid family workers, etc.) - constitutes part of a WEP research project on population and employment....

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the economic role of rural women and fuelwood needs in three ecologycally distinct rural communitys in Peru - describes the research method; examines the rural area energy issue and women's household activities; analyses the sexual division of labour, waste of...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on a survey to determine relationships between desired fertility (married women's attitudes), family income, and the valuation of children in Singapore - constitutes part of a WEP research project on population and employment. References and statistical tables.

Based on a survey of 324 women entrepreneurs and women managers conducted in 1999, examines the development of women-owned businesses, profiles women entrepreneurs, their attitudes and the influence of their work on family life, as well as exploring their performance and needs, and the gender...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper comprising a questionnaire survey of households of Yugoslav migrant workers in Germany, Federal Republic - examines the impact of emigration on the labour market in Yugoslavia and in host country, and covers occupational structure, skill and educational level,...

Based on in-depth interviews with 18 women and a survey of 98 other low income women which were carried out in 1981. Finds that women heads of households are not necessarily economically disadvantaged and suggests that women may be heads of households by choice.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper comprising a statistical analysis of the influence of demographic variables on household savings rate in the Philippines - examines life cycle effects in function with family size and age of the head of the family, and constitutes part of a WEP research project on...