ILO Report – World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2022

Title: 

World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2022  

 

Focus of report: 

This ILO flagship report details the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the world of work.  

 

Published: 

International Labour Organization (ILO), 17 January 2022 

https://www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/weso/trends2022/WCMS_834081/lang--en/index.htm  

 

ISBN (Print): 9789220356975[ISBN] 

ISBN (Web PDF): 9789220356982[ISBN]  

 

Description of report (from above-mentioned website): 

The report examines the impacts of the crisis on global and regional trends in employment, unemployment and labour force participation, as well as on job quality, informal employment and working poverty. It also offers an extensive analysis of trends in temporary employment both before and during the COVID-19 crisis.  This year’s report provides a comprehensive assessment of how the labour market recovery has unfolded across the world in response to different country measures to tackle the pandemic. It analyses global patterns, regional differences and outcomes across economic sectors and groups of workers. The report also presents projections for the expected labour market recovery. 

 

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International Labour Organization (ILO) 

https://www.ilo.org/global/lang--en/index.htm 

 

Forbes, 12 May 2020 - (USA) Job Losses Hit Workers Without College Degrees The Hardest

Title:
Job Losses Hit Workers Without College Degrees The Hardest

Author:
Preston Cooper

Published:
Forbes, 12 May 2020

From the article:
* "The unemployment rate in April 2020 shot up to 14.7%, up from 3.5% in February, reaching the highest rate since modern recordkeeping began in 1948." 
* "Nonfarm payroll employment dropped by over 20 million as the coronavirus pandemic forced the closure of businesses nationwide."

To read more:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/prestoncooper2/2020/05/12/job-losses-hit-workers-without-college-degrees-the-hardest/#595255997e87

Discussion by staff of the University of the Witwatersrand - South Africa needs to end the lockdown: here’s a blueprint for its replacement

Title:
South Africa needs to end the lockdown: here’s a blueprint for its replacement

Authors:
Shabir Madhi, Alex van den Heever, David Francis, Imraan Valodia, Martin Veller & Michael Sachs

Published:
The Conversation, 9 April 2020

From the article:
"The public debate on strategies to tackle COVID-19 often unhelpfully positions health and economic considerations in a diametric fashion – as trade-offs. In fact, economic policy has health consequences. And health policy has economic consequences. The two need to be seen as parts of a coherent whole.  

In the case of South Africa, the country currently faces three interrelated problems. These are the public health threat from the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic and health effects of the lockdown, and a range of intractable economic problems not directly due to the current pandemic. These include high unemployment, low economic growth and falling per capita income."

To read this article:
https://theconversation.com/south-africa-needs-to-end-the-lockdown-heres-a-blueprint-for-its-replacement-136080

Blog Post by Peter Diamandis - The Future of Technological (UN)Employment

Title of blog post:
The Future of Technological (UN)Employment

Author:
Peter Diamandis

Published:
tech blog, 23 February 2020

From the post:
"Headline after headline tells us technological unemployment is on its way.  
Yet the facts tell a different story."

To read this blog post:
https://www.diamandis.com/blog/future-of-technological-employment