Monthly Labor Review

Monthly Labor Review
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2002
Genre: Labor laws and legislation
ISBN:

Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Key Indicators of the Labour Market

Key Indicators of the Labour Market
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 958
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415970037

Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) offers data for over 200 countries for the years 1980 and 1990, 1995 and the latest available subsequent five years. The KILM Interactive Software duplicates the printed publication but includes information for all years after 1980, as well as the basic statistics used to calculate the indicators presented in the book...The software includes a mapping function for those who wish to visualize data geographically according to selected data characteristics. (back cover)

Key Indicators of the Labour Market, 2001-2002

Key Indicators of the Labour Market, 2001-2002
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 912
Release: 2001-12-21
Genre: Economic indicators
ISBN: 9780415939522

Offers information on the 18 key economic indicators of the labor market, provided by the International Labour Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Provides access to ILO working papers, reports, and tables.

Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM), 2000-2001

Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM), 2000-2001
Author: International Labour Organisation Staff
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Total Pages: 932
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789221114017

Produced by the International Labour Office, this CD-ROM provides a set of comprehensive and comparable data on the world's labour markets. It presents 20 key indicators which relate to: the labour force; employment characteristics, such as hours of work, status and sector; measures of unemployment and underemployment; educational attainment and illiteracy; wage and labour costs; productivity; labour market flows; gender issues; and poverty and income distribution. Geographical coverage varies by indicator. The CD-ROM contains data for each year from 1980 onwards, with estimates for the year 2000 available for many economies whilst for others the most recent available data is for 1999. It also contains the actual numerators and denominators used to calculate the indicators. The text is written in English, French, Spanish and Russian.

Wages And Wages Policies: Tripartism In Singapore

Wages And Wages Policies: Tripartism In Singapore
Author: Chong Yah Lim
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1999-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9814495263

This book consists of articles written by twenty authors, including three eminent academicians from Australia and Britain. It provides first-hand information on the National Wages Council (NWC), and its contributions, which includes the promotion of tripartism, as an instrument of economic growth. The book is divided into six parts. Part I introduces the book. Part II provides details about the NWC, its operations and its structure. Part III covers the macroeconomic impact of the NWC, including the impact on productivity, competitiveness, investment and growth. Part IV covers the impact of the NWC on wages and the wage system in Singapore. Part V provides a theoretical perspective on the importance of the NWC to productivity growth and productive efficiency. Part VI takes a look at the incomes policy practice of another country in the region, Australia, which provides a good point of reference for the NWC.

Global Wage Report: 2008/09 Minimum wages and collective bargaining towrds policy coherence

Global Wage Report: 2008/09 Minimum wages and collective bargaining towrds policy coherence
Author: Academic Foundation
Publisher: Academic Foundation
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN: 9788171887453

The first in a new series of ILO reports focusing on wage developments, this volume reviews major trends in the level and distribution of wages around the world since 1995. It considers the effects of economic growth and globalization on wage trends, looking closely at the role of minimum wages and collective bargaining, and suggests ways to improve wage levels and to enable more equal distribution. Wages are a major component of decent work, yet there is a serious knowledge gap in this increasingly important area which this report begins to address. Part one summarizes the main trends in average wages and distribution of wages, providing a statistical analysis of the links between wages and economic growth, along with wage forecasts for 2008 and 2009. Part two examines the relationship between minimum wage policies and collective bargaining, highlighting the effects of institutions on wage outcomes and the importance of coherent policy articulation. Part three concludes with concrete policy recommendations and identifies key issues for further research. The report includes full technical and statistical annexes.

Welfare, Choice and Solidarity in Transition

Welfare, Choice and Solidarity in Transition
Author: János Kornai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2001-05-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139428640

Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for all countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented democracies. Here a scholar of the economics of socialism and post-socialist transition and a health economist take on this challenge. This 2001 book offers health sector reform recommendations for ten countries of Eastern Europe, drawn consistently from a set of explicit guiding principles. After discussing sector-specific characteristics, lessons of international experience, and the main set of initial conditions, the authors advocate reforms based on organized public financing for basic care, private financing for supplementary care, pluralistic delivery of services, and managed competition. Policymakers need to achieve a balance, both assuring social solidarity through universal access to basic health services and expanding individual choice and responsibility through voluntary supplemental insurance. The authors also consider the problems that undermine effectiveness of market-based competition in the health sector.