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World Employment Report
1995/96
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The 1995 report on World Employment is the first in a series of
ILO reports which offer an international perspective on current
employment issues. It is available from the ILO publication department
in English,
French
and
Spanish.
Over the past two decades the employment situation has deteriorated in
most parts of the world. Today many industrialized countries suffer from
high and persistent unemployment and there is a growing concern over
problems of low pay and the reduced employment prospects of unskilled
workers. In most of the developing world fewer productive modern sector
jobs have been created since the early 1980s while the number of
job-seekers continues to mount. This has led to growing underemployment
and deteriorating employment conditions for a significant proportion of
the labour force in many of these countries.
The task of creating sufficient new jobs has thus emerged as the primary
challenge of economic and social policy in most countries of the world.
In this context, World Employment 1995 undertakes a comprehensive review
of the worldwide employment crisis. It surveys global employment trends,
examines competing explanations for the emergence of the employment
crisis, and discusses major policy options for solving it. A distinctive
feature of the report is the emphasis placed on growing
inter-relationships between employment problems across countries in an
increasingly globalized world economy. It therefore argues that an
enhancement of cooperative international action is an important part of
the solution to current employment problems throughout the world. A
renewed worldwide commitment to the objective of full employment is also
considered essential.
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- Globalisation and employment
- Developing countries
- Transition economies
- Industrialized countries
- The challenge of global full employment
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