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World Employment Report
1996/97
National Policies in a Global Context
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The World Employment 1996/97 is the second in a series of ILO
reports which offer an international perspective on current employment
issues.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter I: The global context
»Trade and investment flows
»Impact on labour markets and labour
standards
»International policy issues
»New challenges for national policies
Chapter II: Is full employment passé?
»Introduction
»The end of work?
»Delinking income from work?
»A revolution in the nature of work?
»Changed attitudes towards work and unemployment?
»Updating the concept of full employment
Chapter III: Industrialized countries: reversing the drift from full
employment
»Main stylized facts of labour-market developments
»High and persistent unemployment
»Labour market rigidities
»Macroeconomic factors
»Rising wage inequality
»Trends in wage inequality and low-paid employment
»Patterns of changes across countries
»Growing low-pay employment and its consequences
»Explanations of rising wage inequality
»Is growing international trade to blame?
»Is technological change responsible?
»Do institutional changes matter?
»Policies for reapproaching full employment
»Aiming at higher growth
»Is potential growth limited to 2 to 2.5 per cent?
»Can expansionary policies raise growth?
»Mechanisms for moderating wage inflation
»Coordination of wage bargaining
»Other possible mechanisms
»Labour market policies
»Reforming the unemployment benefit system
»Direct job creation
Chapter IV: Containing high unemployment in transition economies
»Transition and full employment
»The emergence of high unemployment
»The transition process
»Policy issues
Chapter V: Economic reform and employment in developing countries
»Introduction
»The objective of full employment in developing
countries
»Employment performance
»Growth and adjustment
»Economic reform and employment
»Ensuring equity in reform programmes
»Vulnerable groups
»Reducing rural poverty
»Promoting small and medium enterprises
»Labour market regulation and employment
»Are minimum wages set too high?
»Are non-wage labour costs too high?
»Do macroeconomic data suggest overall employment
and wage rigidities?
»Changes in wage inequality
»Economic liberalization and wage inequality
»Trends in wage dispersion in manufacturing
»Correlates of changes in wage dispersion
»Real wages
»Labour productivity
»Employment
»Output
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