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The basic references for the work of the Employment Analysis Research Unit are ILO convention
122 on the promotion of full, productive and freely chosen employment, the Global
Employment Agenda and Decent Work:
The general objective is to contribute, by good quality analysis
and research, to the overall ILO goal of the promotion of full, productive and
freely chosen employment
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By developing cutting edge research in its areas of core
competencies –labour market and employment policy, macroeconomic policy,
development policy, trade and investment and poverty and employment
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By contributing to the conceptualisation and implementation
of the Global Employment agenda and the
Decent Work agenda
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By underpinning the advisory work of EMP/POL through applied
research
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By contributing to EMP/PRODUCTS major publication, the
"World employment report".
EMP/ANALYSIS unites two major economic disciplines: development
economics and labour economics, but is open to other disciplines as well (e.g.
labour law, sociology, management studies) and promotes an open and
interdisciplinary research approach as required for research that takes into
consideration the four strategic objectives of the ILO. Its research and
analysis activities are problem driven and focus on areas like insufficient
levels and quality of employment, unemployment and underemployment, exclusion
and poverty, insufficient growth and low productivity and deficient economic and
social development in general. More specifically, research work aims at tracking
the development of labour markets and the factors influencing these developments
as well as keeping abreast with the developments of policies that aim at
correcting market or policy failures. These research findings are the basis for
alternative policy proposals, which ultimately should contribute to:
• Integrating employment into development policies
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Creating a more employment friendly policy environment that
supports the creation of decent work by the private and public sector.
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Facilitating the acceptance and implementation of economic
change while ensuring worker’s protection
It contributes to the Global Employment Agenda’s goal of putting
productive employment in the centre of development and poverty reduction
policies, both theoretically and empirically. It assumes that the reduction
of the decent work deficit is not only feasible but is a major means for poverty
reduction and development. Another assumption is that established trade-offs
(for example, between income equality and growth, between productivity and
employment, between the quality and the quantity of work) should and can be
overcome. It uses proven quantitative and qualitative research methods and has
access to the main data sources: it cooperates also with other international
organisations and has established an important network of collaboration with
many leading research centres and experts in the field of its competencies.
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