World Employment Report 2004-05

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International Labour Organization, 1998 - 272 pages
The report looks closely at the interdependence of productivity, output and employment. It traces the main sources of productivity growth and pinpoints the principal influences affecting those sources such as technological change, organization and composition of the labour market. It provides a thorough definition of productivity and evaluates whether productivity growth alone is enough to eradicate poverty in the future. The implications for labour market policy around the world are examined. The World Employment Report 2004 is the fifth in a series of ILO reports that offer a global perspect.

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Contents

Overview and main policy messages
1
Global trends in employment productivity and poverty
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1a Growth in output per person employed in Latin America and the Caribbean
35
9a Growth in output per person employed in South Asia total economy
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14a Growth in output per person employed in subSaharan Africa total economy
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Does productivity help or harm employment growth?
77
Why agriculture still matters
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1
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A stable workplace? A mobile workforce? What is best for increasing
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with long tenure selected industrialized countries 1998
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2
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3
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Smallscale activities and the productivity divide
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2
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5a Difference between sectoral and total economy annual average growth
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4
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Boxes
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