Examines the micro- and macroeconomic implications of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, focusing on effects on the labour market and employment in sub-Saharan Africa. Includes population projections in Africa to 2020.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Study of urban development and urbanemployment in the jakarta urban area in Indonesia - covers investment patterns, urbaninfrastructure, urban population and labour force, unemployment and underemployment, rural migration trends and demographic aspects, the low income informal...

Criticizes the standard international definition of unemployment as being too restrictive to measure accurately unemployment in labour- surplus economies. Using Indonesia as a basis, proposes a definition which is based on trends in real wages which aims to reflect the real extent of labour...

En la actualidad, el concepto teórico de tasa natural de desempleo ha trascendido las cátedras universitarias para convertirse en una herramienta útil para analistas y responsables de la política económica. En este artículo, la tasa natural de desempleo es el eje central de análisis y en...

El análisis del metabolismo social brinda los elementos para comprender las interacciones que mantiene la sociedad con la naturaleza. Bajo esta perspectiva este artículo analiza a diferentes las relaciones sociales y económicas de tres sistemas de manejo de recursos naturales (SMRN) en una...

Se presentan resultados parciales del proceso de trabajo de los estibadores marplatense como parte del proyecto de investigación: Puerto de Mar del Plata: Análisis de los Costos Portuarios y Medio Ambiente Laboral. Un Enfoque Cualitativo y Cuantitativo de la Actividad Portuaria Presente y...

ILO pub. Article on planning for training in developing countries (educational planning) - considers problems involved in using long term labour force forecasts as a means of determining training needs and priorities, affirms the need to take into account the different types of technical...

ILO pub. Article reviewing results of a series of ILO-initiated experiments using 'key informants' for local level data collecting of labour market information (labour force and employment) in South East Asia and Antigua and Barbuda - covers organization, implementation and project evaluation,...