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New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau

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International Labour Organization (ILO)

 

GLOBAL EMPLOYMENT TRENDS 2013: RECOVERING FROM A SECOND JOBS DIP [21 January 2013]

http://www.ilo.org/global/publications/books/forthcoming-publications/WCMS_190082/lang--en/index.htm

or

http://www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/global-employment-trends/2013/lang--en/index.htm?shared_from=media-mail

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http://www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/global-employment-trends/2013/WCMS_202326/lang--en/index.htm

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http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/---publ/documents/publication/wcms_202326.pdf

[full-text, 239 pages]

 

Summary

http://www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/global-employment-trends/2013/WCMS_202215/lang--en/index.htm

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http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/---publ/documents/publication/wcms_202215.pdf

[full-text, 9 pages]

 

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.

 

Global Employment Trends 2013 highlights how the crisis is increasingly raising trend unemployment rates, partly driven by sectoral shifts of jobs that had been triggered by the crisis. Despite historically low interest rates in many advanced economies, investment and employment have not shown tangible signs of recovery. Depressed growth prospects have started to spread to the developing world, where low productivity and wage growth continues to remain an issue in most regions, preventing improvements in employment and disposable incomes, in particular among poorer countries, and adding to a rise in global inequality.

 

The report argues that in countries with high and rising unemployment, job guarantee programmes for targeted labour market groups should be the preferred policy measure. Moreover, rising labour market discouragement and structural unemployment should be tackled with new skills and training initiatives to help jobseekers find employment in alternative industries and to promote their employability more broadly. Other possible areas of intervention are further investments in public infrastructure in developing countries and a swift implementation of financial market regulation to help stabilize the macroeconomic environment and stimulate job creation.

 

 

 

 

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