Labour market policies at present are not aimed at securing full employment, but rather at promoting active measures on the part of the labour market.

Labour market situation

Women in the labour market

The Labour Market Service Act

91. The situation of women in the labour market is slightly more favourable at present.

The supply cannot absorb the labour available in the market.

Given the level of job mobility and dislocation inherent in today's dynamic labour market, active labour market policies are essential to fostering the smooth reallocation of labour from declining industries to new and emerging ones.

Women Participation in the Workforce

Currently a concept on implementation of gender equality, which incorporates the main directions of activities for addressing gender equality issues, is being developed.

Gender segmentation of the labour market

Together we can open up the labour market to them and give them prospects for the future.

Owing to demographic pressure and women entering the labour force, the region has one of the highest rates of new entrants into the labour market.

More people wanted to join the labor market.

Horizontal and vertical segregation of the labour market

Even though the existing labour legislation is adjusted to the requirements of a market economy, in practice it includes discrimination on an ethnic, age and gender basis.

Labour market

America s Labor Market by the Numbers

Women from ethnic minorities and the labour market

116. The role of active labour market policies.

Attention has to be drawn to the following features of Colombia apos s labour market in the first half of the 1990s

PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN COLOMBIA apos S LABOUR MARKET

On the basis of the unemployed person apos s individual situation the participants are given information and guidance on employment opportunities on the local labour market and on the future labour market.

63. In the labour market for manual workers there are, generally speaking, two different wage systems.

Good, affordable childcare is a matter of high priority at the moment, as it is regarded as a prerequisite for improving women's rights, enhancing their prospects on the labour market.

It diametrically transformed the labour market.

Reforms in factor markets labor, land, and finance are essential. China s leaders must improve labor market flexibility and labor mobility make land use, acquisition, and compensation more efficient and build a more market based financial system.

Various reports also express concern over obtaining the skills required by the current labour market.

Women in the labour market

105. It has to be taken into account, however, that the situation in the labour market continues to be relieved to a considerable extent by the use of active labour market policy instruments.

The insertion of rural women into the labor market is clearly inferior to that of the urban women, and occurs under more precarious and informal conditions.

In general, the labour market has shown conflicting trends.

It was such a high labor component to it that it made a lot of sense to go after that labor market.

It has been acknowledged that there is a mismatch in the labour market.

A number of measures had been taken to prevent discrimination and improve women's position in the labour market, and to provide incentives to women entrepreneurs.

Note Production refers to crude steel, consumption to finished steel products.

Limited progress has been made in the non agricultural labour market and in political life.

Principal labour market indicators

38. The development of the labour market as regards employment, activity rate and unemployment is shown in the table below which gives the population broken down by sex and labour market participation.

Ms. Yesildaglar (Turkey) acknowledged that the current rate of female participation in the labour force, 26.6 per cent, was very low.

133. During the past several years, labour market pensions have gradually grown more widespread, especially between 1989 and 1993, when the number of people involved in labour market pension schemes increased markedly.

Common policy measures on immigration, linked to labor market needs

During the last years, there has been an increase in female labor participation in the labor market is one of the main changes in this field in Brazil.

Participation of recognized victims to a labour market integration programme.

The higher the level of schooling, the higher the rate of participation in the labour market.

Growing worker insecurity is seen as the basis for a healthy economy. Labor market liberalization in such circumstances not only undermines remaining social protection, but is also likely to diminish real incomes, aggregate demand, and, hence, recovery prospects.