ILO Yearbook of Labour Statistics and related labour data

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	international trade or finance data
Producer	International Labour Office
Coverage	1950s-1994
Works using it	5

Project holdings

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Debates

Debate	Works
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Data reliability and econometric method	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Davies (1979a)	ILO, 'The Occupational Structure of Employment 1960-1980' and ILO Yearbooks of Labour Statistics	1956-1975	Basis of Table 1 comparing the share of the economically active population in ISCO categories 0-3 across countries in the early 1960s and early 1970s.
Davies (1979b)	ILO, 'The Occupational Structure of Employment 1960-1980' and ILO Yearbooks of Labour Statistics	1956-1975	Table 1 compares share of economically active population in ISCO categories 0-3 across countries to show South Africa diverging by 1970.
Hindson (1978)	International Labour Office, Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 1976, table 22	1976	Source of 1976 comparator unemployment rates in Table 1, based on sample surveys of each country's labour force.
Moll (1993a)	U.S. Department of Labor, Handbook of Labor Statistics 1989; ILO Yearbook of Labour Statistics	1950s-1980s	Comparison strike rates (person-days lost per 1,000 employed) for three other countries in Table 2.
Moll (1993c)	US Department of Labor (1990) Handbook of Labor Statistics 1989; ILO Yearbook of Labour Statistics	1950s-1980s	Comparative strike rates for the US, UK and Japan in Table 2.