Job knowlegde platform
https://www.jobsknowledge.org/Pages/Home.aspx New beta site launched by World Bank in collaboration with partner organizations. It aims to share ideas on what works in job creation. Key features of the site are the working wiki where crowd members can suggest and rate job creation and resource sites. There are links through to the employment and jobs data […]
United Nations Social Development Network (UNSDN)
http://unsdn.org/ This new web portal was launched by the Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs as a pilot project, aiming to share knowledge and good practices among social development professionals worldwide on ageing, civil society, cooperatives, disability, employment, family, indigenous peoples, poverty, social integration, technology and youth. It […]
The 4th work-life balance employee survey
From the Department for Business Innovation & Skills and carried out in early 2011: http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/employment-matters/docs/f/12-p151-fourth-work-life-balance-employee-survey The report benchmarks key policy changes since the 2006 survey including the Work and Families Act 2006 which offered the extension of the ‘right to request’ flexible working to parents of children under the age of 17 (2009). See more publications […]
Graduates in the Labour Market 2012
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lmac/graduates-in-the-labour-market/2012/graduates-in-the-labour-market.html The official data from the ONS show high rates of unemployment and unskilled work amongst recent graduates. Other sources of analysis on graduate employment trends: include Prospects. The labour market section of their website includes Graduate Market Trends http://www.hecsu.ac.uk/research_reports_graduate_market_trends.htm which has updates on overall patterns and those by region. It also produces the report […]
Cross-national income database
Luxembourg Income Database (LIS) http://www.lisdatacenter.org/ This data service includes household and person-level micro data on income, demography, employment, and expenditures from countries all over the world, many from 1968 onwards. Browse by country. Free registration required for access. The site also includes working papers. http://www.lisdatacenter.org/lis-wp-webapp/app/search-workingpapers These cover topics relating to income employment, poverty many based on […]
United Nations Monthly Bulletin of Statistics
2000 onwards free online: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mbs/app/mbssearch2.aspx Covering more than 200 nations worldwide, this service offers a quick snapshot of over 100 major economic and social indicators. Remember that access to the main UN series of data (United Nations sources) via their UNData website. Browse country files, see the full list of databases and get news on […]
New labour standards database from ILO
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/ NORMEX information System on International Labour Standards. Includes conventions, protocols and recommendations relating to international labour law. Get text ratifications by country. The site also offers links to NATLEX national labour legislation for hundreds of nations worldwide. http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex_browse.home
International Labour Organisation publications
Resource guides produced by the ILO Library in Geneva provide guidance and direct links to key documents statistics and websites. http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/lib/resource/guide.htm Topics covered include child labour, disability, gender equality, microfinance and the informal economy. The ILO also has a number of other excellent free sites for those interested in work related issues. These include the ILO […]
Occupy Archive
Another site archiving protest materials. This one http://occupyarchive.org/ , a special project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, is saving digital evidence and stories from the Occupy protests worldwide that began in September 2011 in Lower Manhattan. This includes archives of websites, personal accounts, photographs and texts. It is possible […]
Occupy Wall Street
http://www.archive.org/details/occupywallstreet The social movement now has a space on the Internet where they are permanently archiving protest materials. There are currently over 175 materials preserved. They include pictures of protests across the USA from activists, audio files of speeches and images of leaflets produced. For instance see the insert designed to deter companies that send […]
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