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Just out - Skills and Employability Network Updates #6.

Skills for Green Jobs: A Global View


This is an ILO publication that examines the experiences of 21 developed and developing countries in adjusting their training provision to meet the new demands of a greener economy.

Global Employment Trends 2012: Preventing a deeper jobs crisis


The annual Global Employment Trends report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including unemployment, youth employment and working poverty.

ILO launches first global business and disability website


The ILO has taken a major step toward promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace with the launch of a pioneering new global knowledge sharing platform.

Disability in the workplace: Employers’ organizations and business networks


This report presents 12 contemporary case studies of employers' organizations and business networks and their work around the issue of disability in the workplace.
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News

Enabling Asia's women to fulfill their potential

The Japan Times Online - May 18, 2012. "Everyone's eyes are on Asia's rise. China, once dismissed as poor and backward, is now the world's second-largest economy. India, with its huge population, scientific prowess and entrepreneurial vitality, is another powerful engine of Asian growth."

Govt to create 1 million skilled manpower in next five years

The Times of India - May 13, 2012. "The state government has decided to convert employment exchange offices into career guidance centres in a bid to meet the target of creating one million skilled manpower in the state in the next five years. At these centres, candidates will be counseled and screened for appropriate skill development training, said chief secretary B K Patnaik. He was speaking at a skill summit organized by the State Employment Mission and Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Odisha chapter."

Ying Kong: Young, gifted and Asian? Take heart

Nzherald - May 13, 2012. "Young, Asian and unemployed? Know thyself. Struggling to find employment or even land an interview and find yourself or your friends blaming racist attitudes of New Zealand employers? Think again. Blaming racism relinquishes self- accountability, and changing the attitudes of the people around you can be an impossible task that could leave you suffering a lifetime of frustrations."

Resources

Understanding deficits of productive employment and setting targets: a methodological guide

ILO - 2012. "Based on the MDG target to achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people, the present guide elaborates on the concepts of productive employment and its antonym, deficits of productive employment. It provides a guide to estimating current and past deficits in productive employment and on how established targets for reducing poverty and unemployment can be used to derive targets for productive employment generation. Such targets, in their turn, may be used to inform economic and social policies as well as to assess policy coherence from the perspective of achieving productive employment for all and reduce poverty."

International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO-08): Structure, group definitions and correspondence tables

ILO 2012. This volume presents the structure and definitions of all groups in the International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO-08) and their correspondence with ISCO-88.

Asia‐Pacific Labour Market Update, April 2012

ILO - April, 2012. "This resource provides a snapshot of recent economic and labour market trends for a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, based on official data available as of 17 April 2012."