Focuses on the situation of the women migrant workers in their families, workplaces, communities and societies in sending and receiving countries and also on the initiatives, policies and programmes, "good" and "bad" practices implemented by government, private recruitment and employment...

Based on a study carried out in the Grahamstown township, examines means available for obtaining the cash required to finance a funeral. Compares and evaluates four types of funeral insurance providers: formal assistance insurers, formal friendly societies and informal non-profit and for-profit...

Using data from the Georgia Labour Force Survey for 1998 and 1999, provides a profile of informal employment in the country.

Describes the adjustment procedures used to reconcile national labour force statistics in 26 countries with ILO international standards. Includes statistical tables for the period 1980-1989.

Considers the effect on income, income distribution, production, employment and the environment, of major technological changes in agriculture which have occurred in villages located on the floodplains in the Kushtia region and the Chittagong Hill Districts. Based on surveys carried out in...

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...