World of Work Report 2013 - International Labour Organization

Chapter 4
Table 4.1
Distribution of global investment by country grouping
and major economies, 2000, 2007 and 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Table 4.2 Average compensation of CEOs and executives by type, 2011 83
Table 4A.1 Defi nitions and abbreviations of variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Table 4A.2 Summary statistics all regions, 2001–11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Table 4A.3 Regression Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Table 4B.1 Current state of fi nancial sector reforms ........................ 98
Chapter 5
Table 5.1 Simulated effects of job-friendly policies, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Table 5.2 Examples of measures aimed to support and balance incomes 109
Table 5.3 Examples of measures to reinforce employment relationships
and upgrade skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
BOXES
Chapter 1
Box 1.1 Chile and Colombia: Outperforming global employment norms 6
Box 1.2 Cyclical sensitivity of the labour force participation rate . . . . . . . . . . 10
Box 1.3 Constructing the social unrest index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 2
Box 2.1 Defi ning and measuring the middle-income group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Box 2.2 Post-crisis trends in the middle-income group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Chapter 3
Box 3.1 ILO Minimum Wage Conventions: A historical overview . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 4
Box 4.1 Measures to restore credit flows to SMEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Box 4.2 Streamlining executive compensation:
Examples of recent reform initiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Chapter 5
Box 5.1 Job-centred approach in times of crisis: Experiences
of Argentina and Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Box 5.2 Macroeconomic policies aimed at fostering employment creation 107
Box 5.3 How employment and social coherence have become prominent
in the discourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
xi
Table of Contents