Key Labor Market Indicators

Key Labor Market Indicators: Analysis with Household Survey Data is an introduction to labor market indicator analysis and a guide for analyzing household survey data using the ADePT ILO (International Labour Organization) Labor Market Indicators Module. The analytical framework and approach taken up in this book are based on the ILO’s Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM). KILM indicators provide a strong basis on which to address key questions related to productive employment and decent work. The ADePT ILO Labor Market Indicators Module is a powerful tool for producing and analyzing KILM indicators using household survey data. The software allows researchers and practitioners to automate data production, to minimize data production errors, and to quickly produce a wide range of labor market data from labor force surveys or other household surveys that contain labor market information. ABOUT ADePT Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software is a series that provides academics, students, and policy practitioners with a theoretical foundation, practical guidelines, and software tools for applied analysis in various areas of economic research. ADePT Platform is a software package developed in the research department of the World Bank (see www.worldbank.org/adept). The series examines such topics as sector performance and inequality in education, the effectiveness of social transfers, labor market conditions, the effects of macroeconomic shocks on income distribution and labor market outcomes, child anthropometrics, and gender inequalities.

This publication is based on the ILO's Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM). KILM indicators provide a strong basis for addressing key questions related to productive employment and decent work. The ADePT module is a powerful tool for producing and analysing KILM indicators using household survey data. The software allows researchers and practitioners to automate data production, to minimize data production errors and to quickly produce a wide range of labour market data from labour force surveys or other household surveys that contain labour market information. Co-published with World B.

This wide-ranging reference tool meets the ever-increasing demand for timely, accurate, and accessible information on the rapidly changing world of work. Now in its 10th year, the Key Indicators of the Labour Market ( KILM) offers the general user instant and uncomplicated access to data and analysis on the world's labor markets. Harvesting information from international data repositories and regional and national statistical sources, the book offers data going back to 1980 for over 200 countries. The KILM is a collection of 20 key indicators of the labor market that touch on employment and variables relating to employment (status, sector, hours, etc.), the lack of work and the characteristics of jobseekers, education, wages and compensation costs, labor productivity, and working poverty. Taken together, the indicators give a strong foundation from which to begin addressing key questions related to productive employment and decent work. With three formats available--print, interactive software, and online database--accessing the country-level data for the 20 key labor market indicators as well as the descriptive text explaining the indicators' use, definitions, and basic trends is easier than ever. Also available in the KILM are the latest world and regional estimates of labor force participation rates, employment-to-population ratios, status in employment, employment by sector, unemployment and youth unemployment rates, inactivity rates, employment elasticities, and working poverty. This edition also looks specifically at the current economic crisis.

In highlighting multiple indicators, this resource sheds light on equity and other job concerns while providing overviews on topics such as employment-to-population ratios, youth unemployment, wages in manufacturing, and labour productivity.

Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) offers data for over 200 countries for the years 1980 and 1990, 1995 and the latest available subsequent five years. The KILM Interactive Software duplicates the printed publication but includes information for all years after 1980, as well as the basic statistics used to calculate the indicators presented in the book...The software includes a mapping function for those who wish to visualize data geographically according to selected data characteristics. (back cover)

Provides statistical data for 20 labor market indicators.

This wide ranging reference meets the demand for timely, accurate, & accessible information on the rapidly changing world of work. KILM offers data on a broad range of countries for the years 1980 & 1990, & all available subsequent years. The volume employs an expanded, up-to-date range of 18 key labor market indicators allowing researchers to compare & contrast between countries & within regions across time. Using statistical data on the labor force, employment, underemployment, unemployment, educational attainment of the work force, wages & compensation, productivity & labor cost, & poverty & income distribution as market indicators, it enables users to access the most current information available. KILM also provides overviews of topics such as employment-to-population ratios, hours of work, youth unemployment, wages in manufacturing, & labor productivity & cost. Special focus is placed on gender issues at work.

This note is a reference guide for the unemployment template, an econometric tool that allows researchers to analyze and project labor market indicators for any country with sufficient data coverage. Section I explains the motivation behind designing a new surveillance tool to study labor markets, and summarizes the key features of the template. Section II details the data inputs needed and their sources. Section III describes the methods used to estimate the employment-growth elasticity, a measure of the extent to which employment responds to output. Section IV outlines the medium-term outlook table and projection charts created by the template once the inputs are customized to generate an appropriate elasticity. Finally, Section V presents a discussion on how to interpret the results produced by the template, and of the issues that arise from projecting labor market indicators.