Global wage report, 2010/11 [[electronic resource] ] : wage policies in times of crisis

• Pubblicazione: Geneva, : International Labour Office; New Delhi, : Academic Foundation, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (139 p.)
• Disciplina: 339.5
• Soggetto topico: Wages
• Note generali: Includes statistical tables.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [99]-107).
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Major trends in wages; 1 Growth of average wages; 1.1 Global estimates; 1.2 Regional estimates; 1.3 Average wages and productivity; 2 The wage share; 2.1 Recent trends in national wage shares; 2.2 Trends at the sectoral level; 3 Wage inequality and low pay; 3.1 Recent trends: Increasing incidence of low pay; 3.2 Characteristics of low-paid workers; Part II Wages policies in times of crisis; 4 The role of wage policies; 4.1 Social justice and equity; 4.2 The macroeconomic effects of wages; 4.3 Market imperfections ; 4.4 Vulnerable workers: Low-wage jobs5 Wage policies; 5.1 Collective bargaining; Collective bargaining and average wages; Collective bargaining and low pay; The challenge of inclusive systems; 5.2 Minimum wages; Recent trends; Can minimum wages reduce low pay?; 5.3 From minimum wages to minimum income for low-income households; Policies to weaken the linkage between low pay and poverty; What policies? Scope and potential; Part III Summary and conclusions; 6 Main findings and policy implications; 7 Emerging issues and the way forward; Appendices ; Technical appendix I Global wage trends: Methodological issuesTechnical appendix II Definition and measurement of the wage share and shift-share analysis; Statistical appendix; Bibliography; Background papers; References; Tables; 1. Cumulative wage growth, by region since 1999 (1999 = 100); 2. The wage share in OECD countries for the real economy; 3. Selected list of low-wage studies and their methodologies; 4. Different reasons why women are more vulnerable to low wages: Arguments and implications from a literature review; 5. Minimum wages during the crisis ; 6. Minimum wages and inflation in selected countries in Latin America (in percentages)7. Recent developments in minimum wage policies in selected countries; 8. Poverty rates by pay and employment in China, 2002-07 (in per cent); 9. In-work benefits programmes in selected industrialized countries; 10. Examples of cash transfer policies in selected countries; B1. Sources of employment-related income data in Africa; B2. Variables increasing the risk of low pay in selected developing countries; B3. Domestic workers as a percentage of total employment by sex; Figures ; 1. The global recession and recovery, 1995-2010 (year-on-year changes in GDP at constant prices, in per cent)2. Global wage growth, 2006-09 (year-on-year changes, real terms, in per cent); 3. Wage growth in the G20, 2006-09 (year-on-year changes, real terms, in per cent); 4. Nominal wage growth and inflation in four selected countries, 2006-09 (in per cent); 5. Regional wage growth, 2000-09 (in per cent p.a.); 6. Index of nominal and real average weekly earnings in the United States (all non-farm employees), March 2006 to March 2010 (March 2006 = 100) ; 7. Wage growth in selected advanced countries, 2007-09 (in per cent)
• Sommario/riassunto: The second in a series of ILO reports focusing on wage developments, this volume reviews the global and regional wage trends during the years of the economic and financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.
• Titolo autorizzato: Global wage report, 2010
• ISBN: 92-2-123622-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781440303321
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