All publications: employment + employment policy + employment security + unemployment

Factsheet

PROSPECTS Partnership Uganda: Expanding Opportunities for Refugees and Host Communities

This factsheet outlines how the PROSPECTS Partnership is supporting Uganda’s progressive refugee response by expanding opportunities for refugees and host communities. It focuses on turning inclusive policies into practical results through...

Factsheet

PROSPECTS Partnership Egypt: Expanding Hope and Opportunity

This factsheet outlines how the PROSPECTS Partnership is supporting Egypt as it responds to growing refugee and asylum pressures, particularly following the Sudan crisis. It focuses on linking humanitarian and development efforts to expand...

Factsheet

PROSPECTS Partnership Iraq: Building Pathways to Inclusion and Opportunity for Forcibly Displaced People

This factsheet outlines how the PROSPECTS Partnership is supporting Iraq’s efforts to expand inclusion and opportunity for refugees, IDPs and host communities. It focuses on strengthening protection, education, livelihoods, social protection and...

Factsheet

PROSPECTS Partnership Sudan: Strengthening Protection, Economic and Social Inclusion in the Midst of Crisis

This factsheet outlines the PROSPECTS Partnership’s support in Sudan amid the world’s largest displacement crisis. It highlights efforts to strengthen protection, education, decent work, social protection and critical infrastructure for refugees,...

Labour market inclusion for refugees and other forcibly displaced persons

Kenya: Economic and employment policies for inclusive labour markets

This brief is part of the series 'Labour market inclusion for refugees and other forcibly displaced persons' produced by the International Labour Organization.

Labour market inclusion for refugees and other forcibly displaced persons

Germany: Economic and employment policies for inclusive labour markets

This brief is part of the series 'Labour market inclusion for refugees and other forcibly displaced persons' produced by the International Labour Organization.

Labour market inclusion for refugees and other forcibly displaced persons

Uganda: Governance frameworks for inclusive access to labour markets

This brief is part of the series 'Labour market inclusion for refugees and other forcibly displaced persons' produced by the International Labour Organization.

Report

From experience to opportunity: Unlocking skills through RPL

This report presents the outcomes of the Regional Training and Experience-Sharing Workshop on RPL, held in Nairobi, Kenya, under the framework of the PROSPECTS partnership and the ILO’s Global Skills Programme.

India-Austria Migration Corridor Analysis: Trends & Opportunities

The India–Austria Migration Corridor Analysis supports the India–Austria Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement (MMPA) by offering verified insights on migration pathways, skills, and opportunities for students and workers, highlighting key...

Research brief

The impact of GenAI on jobs, productivity and work organization: a review of the empirical evidence

This research brief reviews emerging empirical evidence on how generative AI is affecting jobs, productivity and work organization. It examines findings from experiments, firm-level data, platform studies and worker surveys to better understand how...

Executive summary

Closing the gap: Labour rights, documentation and decent work for refugee and host community youth in Uganda

This executive summary presents key findings from the ILO PROSPECTS Programme consultation on labour rights, documentation barriers, and decent work opportunities for refugee and host community youth in Uganda. Drawing on evidence from Nakivale,...

Employment and Social Trends: May 2026 Update

Growing labour market risks of the Middle East crisis

This Employment and Social Trends: May 2026 Update examines emerging risks to jobs, incomes and workers in a period of heightened global uncertainty. As in previous updates, it focuses on how changes in the geopolitical and economic environment can...

ILO WAEMU youth country briefs

ILO Working Paper 171

The role of national social dialogue institutions in shaping investment policies

This paper examines how national social dialogue institutions can help align foreign direct investment with decent work and sustainable development. Drawing on eleven case studies, it highlights emerging practices, institutional challenges and...

ILO Publication

Digital Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Assessment for Youth in Kigali and Musanze, Rwanda

The ILO-led Digital Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Assessment for Youth in Kigali and Musanze, Rwanda, developed with national partners and supported by Luxembourg, looks at what young digital entrepreneurs need to start, grow and sustain businesses....

Technical Report

The Impact of Active Labour Market Programmes on Youth

This joint ILO and World Bank report synthesizes over three decades of impact evaluation evidence across 62 countries to assess the impact of Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs) on young people's employment and earnings outcomes.

ILO Working Paper 169

Unpacking informality: A multidimensional policy decomposition

This working paper presents a practical additive decomposition of informal employment, showing where policy action can reduce it. Applied to the case of Colombia, it identifies the main factors behind recent declines in informality.

Social protection

Harnessing social protection: Enabling climate-resilient livelihoods in Viet Nam - Water scarcity and income insecurity in the Mekong Basin

Research brief

Workers’ exposure to AI: What indicators tell us – and what they don’t

This brief examines how workers’ exposure to artificial intelligence is measured and what current indicators suggest about the potential transformation of jobs. It clarifies the strengths and limitations of existing approaches and emphasizes that...

ILO Brief

Generative AI and jobs in Viet Nam: Labour market exposure and policy considerations

This brief identifies where potential GenAI exposure in Viet Nam is concentrated across sectors, occupations, provinces and worker groups, including differences by gender, education and formality.