Analyses the characteristics of qualifications and evaluates their impact on the functioning of the labour market.

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...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on implications of rural area labour market characteristics for child labour and fertility behaviour in South East Asia, esp. Bangladesh - illustrates, with a village case study, the impact of wage rates, seasonal unemployment, nonfarm employment employment...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper examining trends relating to labour supply emanating from Black African migrant worker emigration from Southern Africa to South Africa R, with particular reference to the gold mining industry - discusses changes affecting foreign labour demand, legal aspects, wage...

Examines successful cases of equality bargaining. The particular sites selected are: a retail bank with 27,000 employees, 63 per cent female; a food supermarket chain with almost 66,000 employees, 74 per cent female; non industrial civil service with 51 per cent female employees, and a city...