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Executive summary:World of Work Report 2008

Income inequalities have been growing significantly within countries over the past two decades or so. This new report from the International Institute for Labour Studies presents a timely assessment of this issue, based on new data and economic...

Minimum wage

Revisiting the Minimum wage in the Enlarged EU: Addressing changes and challenges in the labour markets

The minimum wage has returned to the core of the EU policy agenda. EU enlargement and increased migration flows for employment and better pay are one factor, but others include the significant rise in non-standard forms of employment, normally...

World of Work Report 2008

World of Work Report 2008 - Global income inequality gap is vast and growing

Despite strong economic growth that produced millions of new jobs since the early 1990s, income inequality grew dramatically in most regions of the world and is expected to increase due to the current global financial crisis, according to a new...

Lower wages for Bangladeshi women raise concerns about discrimination, ILO study finds

A new International Labour Organization (ILO) study suggests that discrimination may be preventing women in Bangladesh from earning the same wages as men.

Executive summary:Globalization, Flexibilization and Working Conditions in Asia and the Pacific

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Emergency Start and Improve Your Business (E-SIYB) Project: getting people back to work through re-starting and starting businesses

As part of a wider UN response to the earthquake, the ILO focuses on livelihoods recovery, under the broad theme of ‘helping people to get back to work’. Responding to a Government request, the ILO, with financial support by the UK Department for...

Workshop on wage policy in Yerevan

Thai families are struggling to care for families and earn a decent living - says new ILO report

A new ILO report shows that low-income workers in Thailand are earning less and working longer hours than before.