Employment Trends (EMP/TRENDS): Employment trends and labour market information

March 2010 

• Women in labour markets: Measuring progress and identifying challenges - [pdf 7697 KB]
  05 March 2010 - This report uses labour market indicators to measure progress or lack of progress towards the goal of gender equality in the world of work and identify where and why blockages to labour market equity continue to exist. (Report)

January 2010 

• Global Employment Trends, January 2010 - [pdf 1112 KB]
  26 January 2010 - An update of the annual ILO Global Employment Trends series, available since 2003 (Report)
• Global Employment Trends and related reports
  - A series of reports that analyse global and regional economic and labour market developments based on the most recently available data. (Project)
• Trends Econometric Models: A Review of Methodology - [pdf 577 KB]
  19 January 2010 - Provides a detailed description of the methodology used in the Global Employment Trends Model. (Working paper)

September 2009 

• Estimates and projections of labour market indicators
  - Activities associated with the design and maintenance of econometric models that are used to produce estimates of labour market indicators in the countries and years for which no real data exist. (Project)
• Country support for strengthening national capacity in the area of LMIA
  - Technical support to countries in building their LMIA systems, both through specific interventions and through more comprehensive approaches including dedicated projects or project components. (Project)
• Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM)
  - A multi-functional research tool of the ILO consisting of country-level data on 20 key indicators of the labour market from 1980 to the latest available year. (Project)
• Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) employment indicators
  - Activities that entail raising awareness of the MDG employment-related indicators and offering country-level support to ensure that the indicators are used in national and international labour market monitoring systems. (Project)
• Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM), Sixth Edition
  07 September 2009 - Published every two years since 1999, the KILM is a collection of 20 key indicators of the labour market, ranging from employment and variables relating to employment (status, sector, hours, etc.) to the lack of work and the characteristics of jobseekers, education, wages and compensation costs, labour productivity and working poverty. ... (Database)

May 2009 

• Global Employment Trends, Update May 2009 - [pdf 4430 KB]
  28 May 2009 - An update of the annual ILO Global Employment Trends series, available since 2003 (Report)

March 2009 

• Global Employment Trends for Women, March 2009 - [pdf 607 KB]
  05 March 2009 - ILO's fourth edition of the Global Employment Trends for Women (Report)

October 2008 

• Global Employment Trends for Youth, October 2008 - [pdf 764 KB]
  01 October 2008 - ILO's third edition of the Global Employment Trends for Youth (Report)

February 2008 

• Key indicators of the labour market (Fifth edition) with interactive CD-ROM (Trilingual English/French/Spanish)
  04 February 2008 - KILM provides a valuable, wide-ranging reference tool to meet the ever-increasing demand for timely, accurate and accessible information on the rapidly changing world of work. It includes all the basic statistics used to calculate 20 key labour market indicators allowing researchers to compare and contrast between economies and within regions across time. ... (Book)

April 2007 

• African Employment Trends, April 2007 - [pdf 781 KB]
  24 April 2007 (Report)

March 2007 

• Global Employment Trends for Women, Brief, March 2007 - [pdf 336 KB]
  07 March 2007 (Report)

January 2007 

• Global Employment Trends Brief, January 2007 - [pdf 175 KB]
  25 January 2007 (Report)
• World and regional trends in labour force participation : methodologies and key results - [pdf 1177 KB]
  01 January 2007 - Economic and Labour Market Paper 2007/1 (Working paper)

October 2006 

• Global Employment Trends for Youth, 2006 - [pdf 507 KB]
  30 October 2006 - ILO's second edition of the Global Employment Trends for Youth (Report)

January 2006 

• Global Employment Trends Brief, January 2006 - [pdf 405 KB]
  24 January 2006 (Report)

October 2005 

• Global Employment Trends, Brief October 2005: Employment Impact in Pakistan of South Asia Earthquake - [pdf 69 KB]
  14 October 2005 (Report)