Context and history -- A global perspective -- Overview of workers' essential need and forms of legal protection -- Substantive rights to minimum pay and safety standards -- Procedural rights : freedom of association and job security standards -- Exclusion from jurisdiction as a regulatory...

This chapter, prepared for the Handbook of Labor Economics, presents a comprehensive overview of how labor economists understand job search among the unemployed and how job search is shaped by unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market policies (ALMP). It focuses on synthesizing key...

This handbook provides guidance material and tools for employers and business to strengthen their capacity to address the risk of forced labour and human trafficking in their own operations and in global supply chains

The International Institute for Labour Studies, a research arm of the International Labour Organization (ILO), is to launch its fourth report in the series "Studies on Growth with Equity" in Madrid on Monday, 27 June, 2011. The new study "Spain: Quality Jobs for a New Economy" takes an in-depth...

This Guide has been developed by the ILO to assist governments, employers' and workers' organizations as well as other relevant stakeholders such as youth groups in preparing National Action Plans on Youth Employment (NAPs)

China has enjoyed spectacularly high GDP growth rates for over more than three decades, thanks to the massive economic, social and institutional reforms put in place during a period of intensifying globalization.' Based on a study by the Institute for Labour Studies Ministry of Human Resources...

Public debate in Nigeria on the country's progress since its return to democracy in 1999 has been dominated by two seemingly opposite themes. The first theme is the strong growth performance of the non-oil economy. This success has been marked by sharp increases in agriculture, trade, and...

Flexible forms of employment have been presented in the book as one of key instruments in fighting unemployment. Although negative voices are raised about objective treatment of an employee, the lack of social security, uncertainty of employment, etc. many of these opinions are just myths and...