Resources

Presentations

Global Employment Trends and Employment Trends in MENA and Egypt
Dorothea Schmidt, an Employment Specialist at the International Labor Organization, presented this PowerPoint presentation at the "Just Jobs for Growth and Stability" conference in Cairo, Egypt on May 27th, 2011.

Statistic Sites

ILO LABORSTA Internet
View and download data and metadata for over 200 countries or territories from LABORSTA, an International Labour Office database on labour statistics operated by the ILO Department of Statistics.

World Bank Data
The Data Catalog provides download access to over 7,000 indicators from World Bank data sets.

OECD Stat Extracts
OECD Stat Extracts enables users to search for and extract data from across OECD's many databases.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy.

U.S. Department of State
Profiles of over 190 countries.

Annual Reports

ILO Global Employment Trends
The annual Global Employment Trends (GET) report provides the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity and working poverty, while also analysing country-level issues and trends in the labour market. Taking into account macroeconomic trends and forecasts, the GET includes a short-term outlook for labour markets around the world.

OECD Employment Outlook
OECD's annual report on employment and labour markets. This edition includes articles on the Jobs Crisis, and more.

World Bank World Development Indicators
The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.