Brazil, while not immune to the effects of the financial and economic crisis, has fared reasonably well compared to many countries in terms of economic and labour market performance. This report examines the way in which social protection measures were utilized in order to mitigate the social...

The annual Global Employment Trends (GET) report provides the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity and working poverty, while also analysing country-level issues and trends in the labour market....

Provides a global picture of job-related discrimination, citing both progress and failures in the struggle to fight discrimination ranging from traditional forms such as sex, race or religion, to newer forms based on age, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status and disability

The report presents the latest global and regional labour market trends for youth and specifically explores how the global economic crisis has exposed the vulnerabilities of young people around the world. In developed economies, the crisis has led to the highest youth unemployment rates on...

Costuma-se argumentar que as políticas para promover a inclusão social e a equidade afetam o crescimento conômico, o que sugere a inevitabilidade de um trade-off entre os objetivos econômicos e sociais. O caso do Brasil, no entanto, demonstra que não há necessariamente um trade-off, desde...

Indonesia was one of the few economies to have demonstrated resilience to the global crisis in terms of both growth and employment. This study shows that the ability of this country to weather the crisis was almost entirely due to the country's reliance on a series of strong social protection...

Con frecuencia se argumenta que el coste de la equidad social es un menor crecimiento económico, subrayando la supuesta disyuntiva que existe entre ambos objetivos. La crisis iniciada en 2008 - la misma que fue precedida por un incremento de las desigualdades sociales - ha demostrado que esta...