Papers and Briefs
June 2022
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ILO Working paper 68
Methodological issues related to the use of online labour market data
22 June 2022
This paper provides a mapping of existing research that employs online labour market data in countries of different income levels. It discusses the potential of these data for understanding labour market phenomena, such as those related to skills, and examines available tools for dealing with issues of non-representativeness and data fluctuations.
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ILO Working paper 70
A global analysis of worker protest in digital labour platforms
21 June 2022
This paper presents findings from the Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest, a database of platform worker protest events around the world in four platform sectors: ride-hailing, food delivery, courier services and grocery delivery for the period January 2017 to July 2020. The findings show that the single most important cause of platform worker protest is pay, followed by employment status, and health and safety.
May 2022
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ILO Working paper 65
Skills and employment transitions in Brazil
31 May 2022
This paper analyses employment transitions and workers’ skills in Brazil between 2003 to 2018, developing a novel procedure to derive a measure of occupational distance and internationally comparable skill measures from occupations’ task descriptions. Against a number of outcomes, workers using non-routine cognitive skills are found to perform better, while routine and non-routine manual workers are worse off in the labour market. Overall, there have been signs of routine-biased technological change and employment polarization since the 2014 Brazilian economic crisis.
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ILO Working paper 64
Gendered Safety Nets and Growing Inequality: Pandemic-induced Recession in India
31 May 2022
In the absence of adequate social security for migrant workers, the recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic forced the mass return of millions of circular migrants who were supported by their rural households of largely left-behind women. In addition, the recession rendered destitute small traders and operators of microenterprises, and reduced the incomes of small-scale farmers.
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ILO brief
Industrial symbiosis networks as part of a circular economy: Employment effects in some industrializing countries
11 May 2022
Industrial symbiosis networks as an expression of the circular economy can constitute a valuable contribution to developing economies’ efforts to build a solid industrial sector in a sustainable manner.
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ILO Working paper 61
Key workers in Ghana during the COVID-19 pandemic
05 May 2022
The study is an analysis of the experience of key workers in Ghana during the COVID-19 pandemic. It finds that although the pandemic reshaped the work environment, workers’ concerns regarding the future were not tied directly to concerns about COVID-19, but rather to larger concerns about working conditions and income security that existed prior to the crisis.
April 2022
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ILO Working paper 60
Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda
25 April 2022
We study the impact of mobile internet rollout on Rwanda’s labour market. Areas with higher mobile internet coverage experience an increase in employment opportunities, especially towards high skilled and high-value-added activities.
March 2022
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ILO Working paper 57
(Un)Employment and skills formation in Chile: An exploration of the effects of training in labour market transitions
24 March 2022
This paper analyses the effects of training on labour market transitions in Chile, using individual-level panel data. It finds that training reduces post-training unemployment, but also shows that the equalizing effects of the training policies are not fully leveraged.
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ILO Working paper 56
The current state of research on the two-way linkages between productivity and well-being
17 March 2022
January 2022
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Publication
The evolution of labour law: Calibrating and comparing regulatory regimes
13 January 2022
Using a newly-created data set which measures legal change over time, the authors present evidence on the evolution of labour law in Germany, France, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. Their analysis casts light on the claim that “legal origin” affects the content of labour law regimes. While some divergence between common law and civil law countries is found at the aggregate level, a more complex picture emerges from consideration of specific areas of labour law. The authors discuss the potential significance of this relatively new measurement-based approach to understanding the forces that shape the evolution of labour law.