Outlines the global structure of the textiles and clothing industry and reviews trading patterns under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), highlighting the impact of trade policies in the European Union and the USA. Examines the issue of labour standards as a new non-tariff barrier to trade....

The paper uses panel data for up to ten Latin America countries for the period 1990-2000 to analyse whether informal employment functions as a cyclic buffer for formal employment as well as whether women's employment functions as a cyclic buffer for men's employment. The paper also evaluates...

Covers trend from 1990 to 1998.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the relationship between agricultural development, agrarian structures, rural employment and poverty in India - based on a literature survey, examines trends in rural population, agricultural income, labour contracts, farm size and food prices; investigates the...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper emanating from a WEP research project, on the implications of technological change over the simulation period in the bachue models for population and employment in developing countries - examines technological change in the input output matrix, etc., and considers...

Discusses how far social dialogue is in dealing with the labour market consequences of the financial and economic crisis.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper emanating from the WEP on the effects of the migration of migrant workers from Mediterranean countries in Western Europe on both home and host countries, with particular reference to employment and income distribution - examines effects on the host country in terms...