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Global Employment

An International Investigation into the Future of Work (paperback)

Employment has been adopted as a leading concern for the United Nations World Social Summit in March 1995. This important study, prepared for the Summit by the World Institute for Development Economics Research, comprises a wide-ranging set of investigations of the rapidly changing situation in the North, the new market economies of Eastern Europe and the increasingly heterogeneous economies of the South. Economists and other social scientists explore what the complex tendencies in the global economy mean for the changing nature of work and rising levels of joblessness, and the issues and policies being thrown up in response to new structural trends.

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Editor

Mihaly Simai

Valentine M. Moghadam

Arvo Kuddo

Details

February 1995

Zed Books and UNU Press,

Volume 1, Number of Volumes 2

© UNU-WIDER

Region

Europe & Central Asia

OECD countries

Table of contents
  1. 1. The Politics and Economics of Global Employment
    Mihaly Simai
  2. 2. European and General Global Issues Influencing Employment and Unemployment
    Yves Berthelot
  3. 3. Fighting Unemployment and Polarization: Investments in Adaptive Capacity through Broad Upgrading in Skills
    Tuire Santamaki-Vuori
  4. 4. Higher Education and Employment
    Klaus Hüfner
  5. 5. Patterns of Vulnerable Labour Situations and Deprivation
    Jose B. Figueiredo, Gerry Rodgers
  6. 6. Some Considerations on the Future of Work: Redefining Productive Work
    Orio Giarini
  7. 7. Gender Aspects of Employment and Unemployment in a Global Perspective
    Valentine M. Moghadam
  8. 8. Flexible Work – A Risk or an Opportunity for Women?: A Nordic Perspective
    Jouko Nätti
  9. 9. Asian Women in Manufacturing: New Challenges, Old Problems
    Pawadee Tonguthai
  10. 10. The ‘New’ International Competition: Effects on Employment
    Michel Fouquin, Agnes Chevalier, Jean Pisani-Ferry
  11. 11. Globalization and the Restructuring of the European Labour Market: The Role of Migration
    H. W. Overbeek
  12. 12. The Internationalization of the Labour Market
    Meine Pieter van Dijk
  13. 13. Employment and the Internationalization of the Labour Markets
    Mihaly Simai
  14. 14. Employment Creation through International Cooperation: Case Studies in Rural Areas in West Africa
    Mogens Hasdorf
  15. 15. Promoting Employment Creation Projects and Programmes: The Role of SIDA
    Arne Strøm
  16. 16. The Role of the United Nations in Developing Human Security
    Üner Kirdar
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