Focuses on the implications of corporate restructuring for employment and industrial relations, illustrated by case studies. Covers the period from 2005 to 2009.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper, capital goods, technology, industrial development, trends, 1955-1978, Colombia - supply and demand, choice of product, Innovation, technology transfer, obstacles, tariff policy, research policy. Bibliography, diagram, statistical tables.

Analyses restructuring and the role of social dialogue in Brazil's chemical industry in the 2000s.

Cubre el período de los años 1990.

The paper “At work but earning less: Trends in decent pay and minimum wages for young people” reviews existing literature and analyses recent data on young workers’ earnings. The findings of the paper point to the increase over time of the youth wage discount, i.e. the wage gap between...

South Africa’s transition to democracy in 1994 engendered expectations of rapid changes in racial and gender disparities in wages. Twenty years after the transition there are strong disagreements about whether there have been gains and how these have been distributed. In particular there are...

Examines the dynamics of collective bargaining with regard to implemtation of annual hours schemes, and reviews trends since 1990. Outlines collective agreements concluded in June and July 1993.