World Employment Report 2004 05

The report looks closely at the interdependence of productivity, output and employment. It traces the main sources of productivity growth and pinpoints the principal influences affecting those sources such as technological change, organization and composition of the labour market. It provides a thorough definition of productivity and evaluates whether productivity growth alone is enough to eradicate poverty in the future. The implications for labour market policy around the world are examined. The World Employment Report 2004 is the fifth in a series of ILO reports that offer a global perspect.

The World Employment Report 2001 examines the employment challenges and opportunities emerging from the rapid growth of information and communication technologies (ICT) around the world. While analysing how new technologies influence the quantity, quality and location of work, the book also looks at where jobs will be lost and created in industrialised and developing countries. In particular, the Report emphasises the importance of education, learning and training, and shows how these factors can help developing countries succeed in the information economy. It also reveals how the digital economy is transforming the way workers' and employers' organisations function, relate to their members and bargain collectively. Up to now, access to ICT remains exclusive. The Report focuses on the growing fear that, if current trends persist, the new technologies will worsen national and global inequalities, especially the wealth gap between the world's rich and poor countries and offers strategies for development and poverty alleviation.

The report looks closely at the interdependence of productivity, output and employment. It traces the main sources of productivity growth and pinpoints the principal influences affecting those sources such as technological change, organization and composition of the labour market. It provides a thorough definition of productivity and evaluates whether productivity growth alone is enough to eradicate poverty in the future. The implications for labour market policy around the world are examined. The World Employment Report 2004 is the fifth in a series of ILO reports that offer a global perspect.

Examines how, within a decent work perspective, countries can develop their skills base so as to increase both the quantity and the productivity of labour employed in the economy.

This collection of papers examines key trends in the internationalisation of employment, drawing on the proceedings of an ILO conference held in Annecy, France in April 2005. The papers focus on three related issues: the impacts of trade and investment abroad, including the offshoring of production of goods and services, and effects on the winners and losers in terms of employment; adjustment methods for coping with the short and medium term problems related to the globalisation of employment; and the importance of international instruments to help ensure a level playing field in trade and promote development, drawing on established rights and international labour standards.

Presents OECD's latest review of labour market trends and issues and includes articles on trade adjustment costs, in-work benefits, evaluation of labour market programmes, and public employment services.