Labour and social trends in ASEAN 2008 : driving competitiveness and prosperity with decent work.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor market--Southeast Asia.

Labor market.

Labor productivity--Southeast Asia.

Labor productivity.

Labor mobility--Southeast Asia.

Labor mobility.

ASEAN.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (124 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Geneva : International Labour Organization, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This report looks at some of the most important current labour and social trends in the ten ASEAN Member Countries and analyses the key factors that underpin long-term competitiveness and productivity.

Contents:

Foreword; 1. Overview; 1.1 Recent labour market trends; 1.2 Looking ahead to 2015; 1.3 Report structure and data sources; 2. Labour market update 2007-2008; 2.1 Recent labour market performance; 2.2 Soaring inflation and its labour market impact; 2.3 Employment outlook; 2.4 Policy priorities; 3. Productivity and competitiveness: Recent trends and future challenges; 3.1 ASEAN's competitiveness: Key issues and trends; 3.2 Linkages between productivity and competitiveness; 3.3 Labour productivity trends in ASEAN; 3.4 Emerging challenges reflect the need to invest in productivity

4. Drivers of productivity growth 4.1 The changing structure of employment in ASEAN; 4.2 The relationship between employment shifts and labour productivity; 4.3 Two key drivers of future productivity growth in ASEAN; 4.4 Policies for economically and socially sustainable productivity growth; 5. Workforce quality, skills shortages and enterprise competitiveness; 5.1 Workforce quality and competitiveness; 5.2 Education quality raises concerns about labour market outcomes; 5.3 The challenge of skills shortages; 5.4 Policy options to enhance workforce quality and address skills shortages

6. Managing the region's human resources for mutual benefit 6.1 Labour migration trends; 6.2 The contribution of migrant workers to competitiveness, growth and development; 6.3 Managing migration for economic growth and equitable development: Key challenges; 7. Looking ahead to 2015; 7.1 Demographic structure and labour force growth; 7.2 Productivity and economic g; 7.3 Structure of employment, vulnerability and the working poor; 8. Recommendations; Annex; I. ILO Workplace Practices Survey; II. Statistical Annex; Box 1.1 Main data sources

Box 2.1 Examples of policy responses to rising food prices Box 3.1 The competitive challenge posed by China and India; Box 3.2 New Zealand national workplace productivity programme; Box 4.1 The ASEAN Policy Blueprint for SME Development 2004-2014; Box 5.1 Meeting demand for engineers in Thailand; Box 5.2 Tripartite approaches to skills development and training in Singapore; Box 6.1 The ILO/MEF Workplace Practices Survey: Data on foreign workers in Malaysia; Box 6.2 Development and harmonization of national qualifications frameworks in ASEAN

Figure 3.1 Output per worker in ASEAN, China and India, 1990-2 Figure 4.1 Employment by sector, 2000-2006 (%); Figure 4.2 Labour productivity (2007) and vulnerable employment (most recent year); Figure 5.1 Staff shortages as a constraint, South-East Asia (%); Figure 6.1 Foreign workers by sector of employment, most recent year (%); Figure 6.2 Main reasons for employing foreign production workers (%); Figure 7.1 Projected labour force growth in ASEAN, 2007-2015 (%); Table 2.1 GDP growth (2006-2008) and employment growth (2006-2007)in selected ASEAN Member Countries

Table 2.2 Employment growth by sector (2006-2007) and employment by sector (2007) in ASEAN

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

92-2-121695-0

OCLC:

635291263