From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">World of Work Report 2013: Repairing the economic and social
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</span></font><i><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">The study analyses the global employment
situation five years after the start of the global financial crisis.<br>
It looks at labour market performance and projections both at the global
and regional levels.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">International
Institute for Labour Studies (IILS) 2013<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Full
report PDF at: <a href="http://bit.ly/19BVnkn" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style>http://bit.ly/19BVnkn</span></font></a> <br>
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Website: <a href="http://bit.ly/11QIm4M" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style>http://bit.ly/11QIm4M</span></font></a> <br>
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● Five years a' er the global $ nancial crisis, the global employment situation
remains uneven, with emerging and developing economies recovering much faster
than the majority of advanced economies. Employment rates (the proportion of
people of working age who have a job) exceed pre-crisis levels in 30 per cent
of the countries analysed. In 37 per cent of the countries, employment rates
have increased in recent years, but not enough to return to the pre-crisis situation,
while in the remaining 33 per cent of countries, employment rates have
continued to decline. Based on current trends, employment rates across emerging
and developing economies will return to pre-crisis levels in 2015; while
employment rates in advanced economies will only return to the precrisis situation
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● At the global level, the number of unemployed people will continue to
increase unless policies change course. Global unemployment is expected to
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">208 million in 2015, compared with
slightly over 200 million at the time of publication. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">● Key labour market weaknesses that
preceded the crisis have remained acute or worsened, even in high-growth
economies. For example, over the past 5 years, the incidence of long-term
unemployment (the share of unemployed persons out of work for 12 months or
more) has increased in 60 per cent of the advanced and developing economies for
which data exist. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">● In addition, many workers have
become discouraged and are no longer actively looking for a job. Labour force
participation rates decreased between 2007 and 2012 in more than half of the
countries analysed.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">1. Overview of employment trends and
projections<br>
2. Income distribution and middle-income groups across the world <br>
Main Findings Introduction A. Trends in income and wage
inequalities<br>
3. Role of minimum wages in rebalancing the economy<br>
4. Investment for a job-friendly recovery<br>
5. How to shift to a more equitable and job-friendly economic path<br>
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