Global employment trends 2012 [electronic resource] : preventing a deeper jobs crisis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

International Labour Office.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor market--Statistics.

Labor market.

Labor supply.

Unemployment.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Geneva : International Labour Office, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The annual Global Employment Trends (GET) reports provide 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.

Contents:

Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Executive summary; 1. The macroeconomic outlook is deteriorating; The global economy has been weakening rapidly; Short-term outlook; Forces acting over the medium term; Scenarios and policy responses; 2. Global labour market situation; Unemployment and labour force participation; Employment and labour productivity; Working poverty and vulnerable employment; A grim outlook for global labour markets; 3. Regional economic and labour market developments; Developed Economies and European Union; Central and South-Eastern Europe (non-EU) and CIS

Latin America and the Caribbean East Asia; South-East Asia and the Pacific; South Asia; Middle East; North Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; 4. Policy options for growth with jobs; A recap of jobs lost to the crisis; A worsening youth employment crisis; The global prospects for jobs; Macro policy options to promote growth with jobs; Bibliography; Annexes; Annex 1. Global and regional tables; Annex 2. Projections; Annex 3. Regional figures; Annex 4. Note on global and regional estimates; Annex 5. Note on global and regional projections; Tables; Table 1. Overview of fiscal austerity measures

Table 2. Patterns of global growth Table 3. Employment and labour productivity growth, world and regions; Table 4. Labour market situation and outlook and GDP growth in the Developed Economies and European Union region; Boxes; Box 1. Sovereign debt problems in the euro zone; Box 2. Could financial market reforms increase employment growth?; Box 3. New ILO estimates of the world's working poor; Box 4. German wage developments and euro area troubles; Box 5. The importance of unemployment benefits for an employment recovery

Box 6. Creating 2.4 million jobs and 7 million job-years in the United States through private investment Box 7. Informal employment in Kazakhstan; Box 8. Policy options for East Asia to prepare for a greying population; Box 9. Youth unemployment in Indonesia; Box 10. Tackling high and pervasive unemployment in Jordan; Box 11. The impact of the revolutions and political change; Box 12. LMIA systems and the use of DySAMs to assess employment creation in Mozambique; Country spotlights; Country spotlight 1. Growth and employment in Australia, Germany, Japan, Latvia, Spain and the United States

Country spotlight 2. Growth and employment in the Republic of Moldova,the Russian Federation and Turkey Country spotlight 3. Growth and employment in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico; Country spotlight 4. Growth and employment in China, Hong Kong (China), Republic of Korea and Taiwan (China); Country spotlight 5. Growth and employment in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand; Country spotlight 6. Growth and employment in Egypt and Morocco; Country spotlight 7. Growth and employment in South Africa; Figures; Figure 1. Decomposition of demand conditions: Pre-crisis vs. crisis period

Figure 2. Financing conditions (USA, euro area and Japan)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

92-2-124925-5

OCLC:

778340042