World Employment Report 2001
İÇİNDEKİLEROverviewGlobal employment trends. Recent developments and critical issues Regional trends. Employment prospects The new information and communication technologies: Genuine potential and real constraints A revolution, possibly, but of uncertain course lCT have potentially pervasive impacts on the world of work A short primer on the technological underpinnings Declining costs and common standards as an encouragement to ubiquity The digital divide ICT and the potential for development Changes in the economics of information The knowledge economy and the networking economy: A distinction in terms Conclusion The enterprise in the digital economy . I lmplications of the acceleration of competition for work organization Some evidence of lower transaction costs in electronic markets 5 The growth of business start-ups 4 Digital divides and the enterprise 5 Conclusion . Toward job economies? Employment in the information society. ls there a new economy? Structural employment dynamics of the information economy Sectoral employment dynamics of the information economy Spatial employment dynamics of the information economy Conclusion The quality of work in the information society: Potential and challenges Job prospects in the information economy Job protection and collective bargaining in the information economy The time dimension of work in the information economy Health and safety at work in the networking economy 45 Conclusion Essential prerequisites for the information society: Education, learning and training. Literacy and education cannot be leapfrogged The potential of distance learning: Moving education online The skills challenge Conclusion .. Employment institutions and intermediation in the information economy Institutional differences and the knowledge-based networking economy Labour market intermediation for the information economy Anticipating the future: e-government applications Creating labour market information products . ICT effects on selected population groups Working people with disabilities. Conclusion Decent work as social choice. Industrial relations in the digital era The disintermediation of collective representation? Negotiating the networking economy The core ICT sector: New industries and the transformation of old ones Organizing and delivering value to the knowledge-based nerworker Virtual options for trade unions and employers' organizations Conclusion Policy considerations for the information economy Making the information economy a jobs economy lCT for economic development and poverty alleviation 94 Promoting education and learning Helping laws and the institutions for social choice adapt to the high speed of change, Conclusion Recent developments and critical issue Regionai trends. Employment prospects The new information and communication technologies: Genuine potential and real constraints A revolution, possibly, but of uncertain course ICT have potentially pervasive impacts on the world of work A short primer on the technological underpinnings Declining costs and common standards as an encouragement to ubiquity The digital divide. ICT and the potential for development. Changes in the economics of information. The knowledge economy and the networking economy: A distinction in terms Concl usion. The enterprise in the digital economy Implications of the acceleration of competition for work organization. Some evidence of lower transaction costs in electronic markets The growth of business start-ups Digital divides and the enterprise. Conclusion Overcoming the "digital divide": Strategies for development and poverty alleviation Introduction A "new development paradigm": The knowledge-driven economy? Developing capacity in the production and exports of ICT goods and services. Policy instruments for encouraging the development of domestic ICT industries. Gains in economic efficiency and productivity from greater use of ICT:Potential for leapfrogging ICT and poverty. Conclusion NOTLARLife at work in the information economy |
