Publications

2023

  1. Global Wage Report Data

    Global Wage Report: Data

    12 June 2023

    This excel file provides data in two seperate sheets on the nominal monthly wages in local currency and the real wage-growth, 2006 to latest available.

  2. Short Report

    Short report

    05 June 2023

  3. Publication

    A Review of Wage Setting through Collective Bargaining

    30 May 2023

  4. Guidance Note

    Guidance note: Wage protection for migrant workers

    27 April 2023

    Working time and wages are the working conditions that have the most direct and tangible effect on the everyday lives of workers and employers. Wages can determine job choice, the number of hours worked, and whether or not to migrate for employment. Adequate wages that ensure a fair share of the fruits of progress to all and standards for wage protection lie at the heart of the ILO’s mandate on social justice and the promotion of decent work.

  5. Report

    Women and men in the informal economy: A statistical update

    07 March 2023

    This report provides a snapshot of the situation in 2019 and trends in selected countries since 2020. It does not intend to provide an in-depth analysis of trends and factors of informality. Instead, the primary objective of this publication is to provide a concise update, both globally and by region, of data on the extent of informal employment, the categories of workers most exposed to informality and the characteristics of those currently in informal employment and their working conditions compared to their counterparts in formal employment.

  6. Publication

    Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World

    06 January 2023

    Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World provides a comprehensive review of both main aspects of working time – working hours and working time arrangements (also called work schedules) – and their effects on workers' work-life balance.

  7. ILO Working paper 86

    Negotiations by workers in the informal economy (ILO WP 86)

    04 January 2023

    This paper provides empirical evidence from Africa, Asia and the Americas on negotiations and collective bargaining by workers in the informal economy.

2022

  1. Publication

    Global Wage Report 2022-23: The impact of inflation and COVID-19 on wages and purchasing power

    30 November 2022

  2. ILO Working paper 80

    Realizing the opportunities of the platform economy through freedom of association and collective bargaining (ILO WP 80)

    30 September 2022

    This study provides empirical evidence from different regions of the world to identify avenues for platform economy workers to access freedom of association and collective bargaining.

  3. Joint report - Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, ILO and IDOS

    A majority working in the shadows: A six-country opinion survey on informal labour in sub-Saharan Africa

    15 September 2022

    Most workers in sub-Saharan Africa are informally employed, which often leaves them without access to health care and social protection.

  4. Report

    Gender Pay Gap in Portugal

    14 June 2022

  5. ILO Working paper 62

    Protection of workers’ personal data: General principles (ILO WP 62)

    05 May 2022

    This working paper gives an overview of legal standards related to personal data protection. It explores trends, principles and good practices and brings them in relation to the world of work.

  6. Publication

    The case of ten companies in the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg

    28 February 2022

2021

  1. Book

    The new world of work: Challenges and opportunities for social partners and labour institutions

    31 December 2021

    This book examines social dialogue and the role of social partners in the governance of the world of work in 34 European countries.

  2. ILO Working paper 27

    Platform work and the employment relationship (ILO WP 27)

    31 March 2021

    This working paper analyses national and supranational case law and legislation about the employment status of platform workers. It does so by referring to the ILO Employment Relationship Recommendation, 2006 (No. 198). It finds that this Recommendation provides for a valuable compass to navigate the issues that emerge from the analysis of the existing case law and legislation about platform work.

  3. ILO Working paper 25

    Homeworking in the Philippines: Bad job ? Good job ?

    09 March 2021

    This report focuses on two categories of homeworkers in the Philippines: industrial homeworkers, who assemble or fabricate goods for factories, retailers or their agents under subcontracting arrangements; and online workers, who render services to their clients or employers via telecommunications technologies and digital platforms.

  4. ILO Working paper 24

    Online digital labour platforms in China (ILO WP 24)

    02 February 2021

    This paper summarizes the results of an ILO survey, conducted in 2019, of workers’ characteristics and working conditions on three major digital labour platforms in China.

  5. ILO Working paper 22

    Home-based work and homework in Ghana: An exploration

    22 January 2021

    This research report explores the nature and character of home-based work and the more narrow concept of homework in Ghana.

  6. Publication

    Working from home: From invisibility to decent work [Full report]

    13 January 2021

    With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many in the world’s workforce have shifted to homeworking, thereby joining the hundreds of millions of workers who have already been working from home for decades.

2020

  1. ILO Working paper 21

    Home bounded - Global outreach: Home-based workers in Turkey

    18 December 2020

    This report focuses on industrial home-based pieceworkers and IT-enabled remote workers, who are commonly referred to in Turkey as “freelancers”.