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

ILO Working paper 70

A global analysis of worker protest in digital labour platforms

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...

ILO Working Paper 69

Growth, economic structure and informality

This paper explores the relationship between economic growth and informality and highlights the role of GDP growth and its composition in the level and evolution of informality, using country data from 1991 to 2019.

Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean (Number 26): Real wages during the pandemic: trends and challenges

This edition of the Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean report, jointly prepared twice-yearly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) analyses the...

ILO PROSPECTS in Jordan - at a glance

This country factsheet provides an overview of the key interventions and results of PROSPECT programme implementation in Jordan

ILO Working paper 65

Skills and employment transitions in Brazil

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...

Country Report for Jordan

The Impact of Trade and Investment Policies on Productive and Decent Work

METI Programme

Country Report for Jordan

Executive Summary: The Impact of Trade and Investment Policies on Productive and Decent Work

METI Programme

Thematic Report

Trade, investment and employment in the Southern Mediterranean Countries

Thematic Report of the "Mainstreaming Employment into Trade and Investment in the Southern Neighbourhood" Programme (METI).

Thematic Report

Executive summary: Trade, investment and employment in the Southern Mediterranean Countries

Summary of the Thematic Report of the "Mainstreaming Employment into Trade and Investment in the Southern Neighbourhood" Programme (METI)

ILO Monitor on the world of work. 9th edition

The report gives a global overview of how countries are tackling an uneven labour market recovery that has been further undermined by developments such as the Russian aggression against Ukraine, increases in inflation, and continuing strict COVID-19...

Brochure

Partnership for improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons and host communities - Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq

In this second edition of the ILO PROSPECTS Arab States brochure, the ILO presents some of its latest work under the programme.

Credit guarantees: SME access to finance and employment in Africa

This report makes a thorough review of existing studies that have laid out the relationship between credit guarantee facilities, SMEs access to credit, and job creation.

Report V/Suggested points for discussion

Third recurrent item discussion on employment: Responding to the crisis and fostering inclusive and sustainable development with a new...

YEAP 2020-2030

ILO’s Youth Employment Action Plan (YEAP) 2020-30

Migrant workers

Reduced Vulnerability of Returnee Migrant Workers through Linkages to Employment Opportunities and Integration into Local Economic...

Labour Overview series for Latin America and the Caribbean 2021

2021 Labour Overview of Latin America and the Caribbean

Nearly two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the third quarter of 2021, the employment rate and economic participation rate were still lower than the 2019 records, while the unemployment rate was higher than in that year. The 2021...

ILO Working paper 60

Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda

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.

Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises (EESE) in fragile contexts

In the wake of conflict or disaster, decent work is often considered as a secondary priority, when it can be the key to resolving many of the drivers of conflict and can be instrumental to restoring peace and resilience. Employment and...

ILO multinational enterprises and social policy

What is the ILO MNE Declaration?

The Tripartite declaration of principles concerning multinational enterprises and social policy (MNE Declaration) is the ILO instrument that provides direct guidance to enterprises on social policy and inclusive, responsible and sustainable...

Philippine agriculture sector

Five studies of the Philippine agriculture sector: Summary analysis and policy recommendations

The Responsible Supply Chains in Asia Programme in the Philippines focuses on the agriculture sector, particularly food commodities. This report summarizes and analyses the findings of the following sector-based and thematic studies carried out by...