Towards the Goal of Full Employment
İÇİNDEKİLERCONTENTS Abbreviations and acronyms Acknowledgements ....... Preface ................ 1 The commitment to full employment ............... 1.1 Introduction ................................... 1.2 Measuring and defining employment and unemployment . 1.3 An employment strategy: Common elements and variations Developing countries ........................... Industrialized countries ......................... Transition countries............................ 2 The current employment picture ..................... 2.1 Introduction ...................................... 2.2 The global and regional employment picture .............. An overview..................................... Central and Eastern Europe ......................... Asia ........................................... Africa ......................................... Latin America and the Caribbean ..................... Western Europe, North America and Australasia ......... 2.3 Broad issues of employment quality .................... Introduction ..................................... Freedom of association ............................ The promotion of women in the labour force, discrimination and equality of opportunity......................... 2.4 Concluding remarks ................................Towards the goal of full employment 3 The employment effects of current policies ..... 3.1 Introduction .............................. 3.2 Developing countries: Recent experience ........ East and South-East Asia: What went right?..... And in Latin America?.................... 3.3 The "older" OECD member countries: The 1990s 3.4 Structural adjustment in Central and Eastern Europe 4 Conclusions................................. 4.1 Introduction ................................. 4.2 Poverty, income distribution and economic growth 4.3 Are full employment policies broadly on the right track? 4.4 How the ILO helps .......................... The global context ........................... At the national level .......................... Index List of tables 2.1 Rates of unemployment and growth in numbers unemployed, by region, 1987-99 ...................................... 2.2 Growth rates of employment, labour productivity and the labour force, 1987-99 ............................................... 2.3 Unemployment in Central and Eastern Europe, 1995 and 1999 ..... 2.4 China: Labour force, 1980-98 .............................. 2.5 Latin America and the Caribbean: Urban unemployment rate, 1970-99 ............................................... 2.6 Industrialized countries: Employment growth and labour demand, 1993-99 ............................................... 2.7 France and the United States: Annual wage growth in real terms, 1986-90 and 1990-97 .................................... 3.1 Selected older OECD member countries: Employment protection and collective bargaining coverage, by country rankings, 1990s........ 3.2 Selected older OECD member countries: Macroeconomic variables, 1992-97 ........................................... 3.3 Selected older OECD member countries: Investment in machinery and equipment, 1992-97 ................................... 3.4 Selected older OECD member countries: Real productivity per hour, 1992-97 ...............................................3.5 Growth of employment and productivity in selected OECD member countries, 1997-2000 ................................... 3.6Real GDP/NMP and trade in the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe, 1985-98................................. 3.7 Government deficits and government expenditure in the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe, 1993-99 ............. 3.8 Rural effective exchange rate and current account balance in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe, 1993-99..... 4.1 Property rights index and income growth by quintile, 1970-90 List of figures 3.1 Relative labour demand and wage pressure in selected OECD member countries, 1992-97 .........................  |
