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....

This study provides a comprehensive review of the urban informal sector economic activities in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, their contributions to employment and its potential for expansion. In analysing the results of a survey conducted in 1977 on 29 occupational categories within six economic...

Based on a survey of 9,000 formal sector workers undertaken in 1990. Looks at the relationship between wage levels and educational levels (finding high returns to education), and wage levels and occupation.

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

Examines successful cases of equality bargaining. The particular sites selected are: a retail bank with 27,000 employees, 63 per cent female; a food supermarket chain with almost 66,000 employees, 74 per cent female; non industrial civil service with 51 per cent female employees, and a city...

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.