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Hemos seleccionado para Ud. los libros y artículos siguientes de interés general para los funcionarios de la OIT. Están disponibles en la Biblioteca a partir de su publicación en esta lista que actualizaremos cada dos semanas.
- Délocalisation et nouveau modèle économique : le cas du secteur textile-habillement / Gilbert Ammar, Nathalie Roux.
In Revue de l'IRES. (Paris : Institut de recherches economiques et sociales.) No. 62 (2009) p. 99-134
Présente les déterminants et les enjeux des processus de délocalisations de certains segments de production dans le secteur textile-habillement, et analyse, plus particulièrement, les spécificités de la réorganisation de la production au niveau international avec la notion de chaîne de valeur mondiale. D'autre part, idétifie les nouvelles logiques organisationnelles mises en oeuvre par les industriels afin de répondre à ces nouveaux contextes concurrentiels.
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Call number 48784(2009-62)99-134
- Empleo y paro : una modernización del mercado de trabajo prometedora pero incompleta / [Christophe Willmann].
In Boletín de información sociolaboral internacional. (Madrid : Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales, Secretaría Técnica, Subdirección General de Estudios e Informes Socioeconómicos.) No. 150 (agosto-septiembre 2008) p. 19-32 (No. 150)
Analiza el acuerdo nacional interprofesional francés, firmado entre sindicatos y empleadores, y destinado a facilitar la entrada en la empresa y la vuelta al empleo, especialmente de los jóvenes y desempleados, y a asegurar los itinerarios profesionales, con flexibilidad de contratos y reforzamiento de los derechos de los asalariados despedidos con mejores indemnizaciones.
Call number 49904(2008-150)19-32
- Employment policy : 2009 : final draft / Republic of Liberia, Ministry of Labour, with technical assistance from the International Labour Organisation.
Monrovia : Ministry of Labour, 2009. 24 p.
Describes the key employment challenges: emergency employment and sustainable productive employment. Outlines the Ministries' roles and priority actions for employment, and lists congruence with other policies, e.g. the Liberia Poverty Reduction Strategy, National Youth Policy, National Gender Based Violence Plan of Action, National HIV/AIDS Work-Place Policy (WPP), etc.
Call number 110A369
- Europe 2020 : the new Lisbon strategy : abstract of the SER advisory report Europa 2020 : de nieuwe Lissabon-strategie / Sociaal-Economische Raad (SER).
The Hague : SER, 2009. 40 p.
Provides a summary of the advisory report prepared by the Social and Economic Council for the Dutch government.. Comprises an evaluation of the Lisbon Strategy since 2005 and a new social and economic policy agenda for Europe between 2010 and 2020.
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Call number 109A719
- Une flexicurité au service des capacités des citoyens européens / Jean-Michel Bonvin, Pascale Vielle.
In Revue de l'IRES. (Paris : Institut de recherches economiques et sociales.) No. 63 (2009) p. 17-33
Plaide en faveur d'une conception renouvelée et mobilisatrice de sécurité sociale, susceptible d'intégrer les nouveaux risques et éventualités qu'affrontent les citoyens européens dans leurs trajectoires professionnelles et familiales, dans un cadre de flexibilité et de déréglementation du droit du travail.
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Call number 48784(2009-63)17-33
- La flexicurité et la question des sécurités adéquates / Laurent Duclos.
In Revue de l'IRES. (Paris : Institut de recherches economiques et sociales.) No. 63 (2009) p. 35-62
Tente d'éclaircir la compréhension de la notion de flexibilité en répondant à la nécessité d'offrir une meilleure protection sociale auxs salariés titulaires de contrats précaires.
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Call number 48784(2009-63)35-62
- Global crises, global solutions / Edited by Bjørn Lomborg.
New York : Cambridge Universty Press, 2009. xxvii, 681 p.
Discusses a wide range of policy options for combating ten of the world's biggest problems: air pollution, conflicts, diseases, education, global warming, malnutrition and hunger, sanitation and clean water, trade barriers, terrorism, and women in development.
Call number 110A338
- The global economic crisis and the MDGs in the Pacific / Simon Feeny.
In Pacific economic bulletin. (Canberra : Australian Agency for International Development.) Vol. 25, No. 1 (2010) p. 136-150
Using economic growth forecasts for 2009 and 2010, discusses how the global economic crisis is likely to impact on income poverty and on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).
Call number 49883(2010-1)136-150
- The great migration : rural-urban migration in China and Indonesia / edited by Xin Meng...[et al.].
Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2010. xvi, 262 p.
Compares the immense internal migration movement in the two countries during the period 1997-2007. Explores the impact of migration on migrants and their families, as well as the rural communities they leave behind and the urban communities they enter. Looks at issues of wages and discrimination in the urban labour markets, and a more equal distribution in income and poverty reduction.
Call number 110A335
- Handbook on impact evaluation : quantitative methods and practices / Shahidur R. Khandker, Gayatri B. Koolwal, Hussain A. Samad ; The World Bank.
Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2010. xx, 239 p.
Covers experimental and non-experimental approaches for designing and evaluating programmes, including their distributional and structural impacts.
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Call number 110B03/10 engl
- Labour and the global financial crisis [special topic].
In Socio-economic review. (Oxford : Oxford University Press.) Vol. 8, no. 2 (April 2010) p. 341-376
Discusses whether the global financial crisis could be viewed as a turning point for labour movements. Examines related attitudes of trade unions and forms of social conflict.
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Call number 41050(2010-2)341-376
- Land tenure, gender and globalisation : research and analysis from Africa, Asia and Latin America / edited by Dzodzi Tsikata and Pamela Golah.
New Delhi : Zubaan ; IDRC, 2010. xii, 299 p.
Explores the inter-connectedness of global processes and land tenure, land holding and land use and its effects on the social relations, with a particular focus on gender issues.
Call number 110A345
- Low-wage work in the wealthy world / Jérôme Gautié and John Schmitt, editors.
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2010. xx, 485 p.
Summarizes the results of a multi-year study of low-wage work in Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, with links back to an earlier Russell Sage Foundation study ("Low-wage America : how employers are reshaping opportunity in the workplace" New York , 2003). The first section of the book provides a cross-cutting overview of labor-market institutions in each of the five countries. The second section reviews the findings of case studies of low-wage occupations in five industries, hotels, hospitals, call centers, food processing, and retail.
Call number 110A402
- The provision of income protection and activation services for the unemployed in "active" welfare states : an international comparison / Rik Van Berkel.
In Journal of social policy. (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.) Vol. 39, part 1 (Jan. 2010) p. 17-34
Discusses operational policy reforms in the areas of income protection and activation for work of unemployed people. Argues that these reforms should also be interpreted as responses to policy administration and implementation problems arising in the process of making welfare states more activating.
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Call number 43838(2010-1)17-34
- Les réductions de cotisations sociales dans le régime des travailleurs salariés : leur rôle dans le contexte historique, social et économique / Jacques Lhoest.
In Revue belge de sécurité sociale. (Bruxelles : Ministère des Affaires sociales.) No. 3 (2009) p. 495-582
Call number 41104(2009-3)495-582
- Rising states, rising institutions : challenges for global governance / Alan S. Alexandroff, Andrew F. Cooper, editors ; The Centre for International Governance Innovation, Brookings Institution.
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2010. viii, 318 p.
Analyses different models of international cooperation, the States that have most actively challenged the existing order, and leading and emergent international institutions such as the G-20, the nascent regime for sovereign wealth funds, the International Energy Agency, and the entities organized to foster cooperation in the war on terror.
Call number 110A346
- Social income and insecurity : a study in Gujarat / Guy Standing ... [et al.] ; Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA).
New Delhi : Routledge, 2010. xxii, 232 p.
Develops an innovative concept of social income, a measure of all forms of income and income support that individuals, families and communities can receive. Drawing on survey data collected in the state of Gujarat in 2007-08, examines the redistribution effects. Concludes about policy actions targeting lower-income groups.
Call number 110A371
- Taking employment discrimination seriously : Chinese and European perspectives / edited by Yuwen Li and Jenny Goldschmidt.
Leiden : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009. x, 306 p.
Presents evidence of discrimination in China and advocates for effective employment equality protection through law and specialized equality institutions. Highlights equal treatment in the legal systems of Austria and the Netherlands, with particular reference to the contribution law that, together with general policies, can improve of equality in employment.
Call number 110A377
- Taxation and gender equity : a comparative analysis of direct and indirect taxes in developing and developed countries / edited by Caren Grown and Imraan Valodia.
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2010. xxviii, 318 p.
Presents original research on the gender dimensions of personal income taxes, value-added excise, and fuel taxes in seven developing countries and one developed country.
Call number 110A303
- Trade and poverty reduction in the Asia-Pacific region : case studies and lessons from low-income communities / Edited by Andrew L. Stoler, Jim Redden and Lee Ann Jackson ; World Trade Organization.
Geneva : WTO, 2009. xxi, 795 p.
Explores how trade relations can reduce poverty, illustrated by case studies from some 20 countries. Highlights trade-related capacity building, role of the private sector, access to markets, etc.
Call number 109B08/4 engl
- Which way Latin America? Hemispheric politics meets globalization / edited by Andrew F. cooper and Jorge Heine.
Tokyo : United Nations University Press, 2009. 326 p.
Explores the ways in which the region has re-engaged globalization.
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Call number 110A401
- The World Bank and the ILO : two visions of employment regulation / Yaraslau Kryvoi.
Brugge : Vanden Broele Publishers, 2009. p. 47-58
Refers 1. to the World Bank's annual "Business report" that ranks business regulations and their enforcement in a great number of countries and 2. ILO's international labour standards. Discusses issues of the organizations' different views regarding flexibility of labour regulations.
Call number 109A416
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