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World Social Security Report, 2010/11
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This is the first in a new series of biennial reports that aim to map social security coverage globally, presenting various methods and approaches for assessing coverage and identifying gaps. Backed by comparative statistical data, this first report takes a comprehensive look at how countries are investing in social security, how they are financing it, and how effective their approaches are. The report examines the ways selected international organizations (the EU, OECD, and ADB) monitor social protection and the correlation of social security coverage and the ILO Decent Work Indicators. It features a review of national approaches to social security, with a focus on countries’ responses to the economic crisis of 2008—and the lessons to be learned, especially concerning the short- and long-term management of pension schemes.
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Extending Social Security to All: A Review of Challenges and a guide to practice and strategy options
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Social security represents an investment in a nation's human infrastructure. This book outlines basic concepts such as the social protection floor and the social security staircase, analyzes the affordability of various approaches, and examines the results of practices around the world, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
The second part of Extending Social Security to All weighs the pros and cons of conditional cash transfers. Based on a wealth of statistics, it argues that effective social transfer programs not only alleviate poverty but also improve labor market participation, productivity, nutrition, health care, education, consumption, and social inclusion. The book demonstrates that such investment can benefit poorer countries as well as richer ones. Even in times of tightened budgets and global economic crisis, the dividends are well worth the expenditure.
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Offshoring and working conditions in remote work
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Advances in information and communication technologies, combined with organizations seeking to reduce costs, have led to a dramatic growth in service sector off-shoring and outsourcing, most notably to developing countries such as India. Despite burgeoning literature on this phenomenon, however, little attention has been paid to the working and employment conditions that exist in the growing number of workplaces providing business-process outsourcing and IT-enabled services in developing countries.
This book examines and provides a historical context for the development of the business-process outsourcing industry, based on case study analysis of working conditions in four countries where this industry is large or growing—Argentina, Brazil, India, and the Philippines. The contributors offer policy advice on how the growth of 'good quality' jobs can be promoted as these industries grow and mature around the world.
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Trade and Employment in the Global Crisis
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In many low- and middle-income countries, the global financial crisis has led to significant losses of jobs and pressures on real wages. Based on the findings of ILO-sponsored country studies of employment impacts, this book analyzes how cross-border trade has acted as a transmission channel, spreading the crisis to developing states. Key topics covered include how changes in trade flows affect the labor market, the role of price volatility and demand shocks in the recent crisis, and how export concentration makes countries more vulnerable. The book also takes an in-depth look at the strategies households have developed to cope with the crisis and on the effects of the crisis on inequality and bargaining power. Finally, the study reviews how policy instruments designed to protect workers have fared and makes recommendations for responses to future crises. Marion Jansen is a senior economist in the Employment Sector at the International Labor Office. Erik von Uexkull is an economic officer in the Employment Sector at ILO.
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International Labour Migration: A rights-based approach
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This book offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of international labour migration and the ILO’s efforts to protect migrant workers through a rights-based approach. It gives new insights into the factors that motivate people to seek work outside their country of origin and the significant development effects on both origin and destination countries. Exposing the often limited access of migrant workers to their fundamental rights at work, it describes in detail the international norms that have evolved to protect migrant workers and ensure decent work for all. It reflects on existing and potential international governance structures, addressing the linkages between migration and development, and reviews the role of the ILO’s Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration in improving policy-making and international cooperation in the area of labour migration.
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