Working papers

Working Paper No. 104 - Inequality in Crisis and Recovery: Revealing the Divides The case of the Republic of Korea

28 July 2011

Working Paper No. 103 - Rural wage employment in Rwanda and Ethiopia: A review of the current policy neglect and a framework to begin addressing it

26 May 2011

Working Paper No. 100 - The challenges of Delivering as One: Overcoming fragmentation and moving towards policy coherence

14 February 2011

How to achieve better coherence between the economic and social policies pursued by the agencies of the UN system? This paper looks at the concrete experience of two employment and social protection initiatives in two countries in South Asia, Nepal and Maldives, to illustrate some of the main factors that enabled some UN cooperation as well as the constraints deriving from policy differences and organizational boundaries. It makes suggestions for steps to enhance system-wide coherence, arguing the need to shift the focus of inter-agency debates from the efficiency of programming and operations to the policy levers to achieve development outcomes. The paper was prepared for the Policy Coherence for Growth, Employment and Decent Work project under the ILO-Norway Cooperation Agreement.

Working Paper No. 99 - Measuring progress towards the application of freedom of association and collective bargaining rights: A tabular presentation of the findings of the ILO supervisory system

25 January 2011

Working Paper No. 98 - Issues in labour market inequality and women’s participation in India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme

14 February 2011

Working Paper No. 97 - Rural inequality, wage employment and labour market formation in Africa: Historical and micro-level evidence

13 August 2010

Working Paper No. 96 - Are Middle-Paid Jobs in OECD Countries Disappearing? An Overview

22 April 2010

Working Paper No. 95 - Reducing or aggravating inequality? Preliminary findings from the 2008 financial crisis

22 April 2010

Working Paper No. 94 - Reporting regularly on decent work in the world: Options for the ILO

01 January 2010

Working Paper No. 93 - A common economic crisis but contradictory responses: The European experience 2008/09

01 May 2009

Working Paper No. 92 - Gender (in)equality, globalization and governance

01 March 2009

Working Paper No. 91 - Decent work and informal employment: A survey of workers in Glen View, Harare

01 July 2008

Working Paper No. 90 - Employment, unemployment and informality in Zimbabwe: Concepts and data for coherent policy-making

01 July 2008

Working Paper No. 89 - Rural Migrant Workers in China: Scenario, challenges and public policy

01 June 2008

Working Paper No. 87 - Global Rules and markets: Constraints over Policy Autonomy in Developing Countries

01 June 2008

Working Paper No. 86 - The unpaid care work - paid work connection

01 May 2009

Working Paper No. 85 - Gender, Informality and Employment Adjustment in Latin America

01 November 2007

Working Paper No. 84 - The Impact of Institutions and Policy on Informal Economy in Developing Countries: An economic exploration

01 November 2007

Working Paper No. 83 - Beyond the Employment/Unemployment Dichotomy: Measuring the Quality of Employment in Low Income Countries

01 November 2007

Working Paper No. 82 - Growth and Employment Dynamics in Botswana: A Case Study of Policy Coherence

01 October 2007

This paper examines what is behind Botswana's spectacular economic success since gaining independence in 1966.