ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on female labour supply and labour force participation of the woman worker in Jamaica - constitutes part of a WEP research project on population and employment. References and statistical tables.

Explores the concept of workers' economic vulnerability, covering insecurity of income, employment and working conditions. Discusses vulnerability of workers by sector and by labour status and identifies susceptible groups (labour circulants, young workes and women).

Based on data from the Labour Flexibility Survey of 1988 in Malaysia which covered 3,100 manufacturing firms, and the Labour Flexibility Survey of 1990 in the Philippines which covered 1,311 industrial firms.

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper using a combination of survey data for regression analysis of woman worker labour force participation in sri lanka - examines the extent to which interrelationships between fertility behaviour, land ownership, educational level, marital status, standard of living...

Based on a case study from informal markets of the city of Maputo, in Monzabique, and the Associação dos Operadores e Trabalhadores do Sector Informal (ASOTSI), analyses the impact of the role of informal union organizations in the living and working conditions of the informal workers...

Based on interviews with 1463 working mothers from seven sectors: garment workers, carpet weavers, pashmina weavers, agricultural workers, tea plantation workers, beedi workers and domestic workers. Examines the socio- economic background of the women and their families, working conditions,...

Based on interviews with 13 union officials of both sexes as well as personnel from the Ministry of Labour.

Working paper of the manpower needs generated by labour intensive fruit and vegetable agricultural production for export, and the agricultural employment of rural women under a traditional sharecropping system in the Oulja region of Morocco. Analyses the impact of economic development on the...

Working paper comprising a case study on the economic role of low income rural women, especially as women workers employed in subsistence farming in Andra Pradesh, India. Covers labour force participation, sexual division of labour, sex discrimination in land tenure and occupational structure,...