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

Report

World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2022

This ILO flagship report details the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the world of work.

Book

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

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

A review of skills testing and certification in TVET in Lebanon

This report reviews the existing skills testing and certification systems of public and private technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programs in Lebanon, by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the existing final summative...

Migration and gender in Bangladesh: An irregular landscape

This survey is part of a series of studies commissioned by the Work in Freedom Programme of the ILO in order to document the motives and trajectories of migrant women workers. The survey explores the local and regional gendered specificities of...

Migrant workers

The invisible workers: Bangladeshi women in Oman

The purpose of this ethnography is to follow the lives of working women from Bangladesh and document and analyse the diversity of their individual and collective experiences. The findings reveal a reality that contrasts from the usual...

Report: executive summary

Haiti earthquake 2021: Post Disaster Needs Assessment (executive summary)

Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean (Number 25): Policies to protect labour relations and hiring subsidies amid the...

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...

Reforms of the employment insurance system of the Republic of Korea to cope with the COVID-19 crisis

COVID-19 pandemic that caused massive unemployment has forced countries to review their employment policy and protection system. This paper summarized efforts taken by Republic of Korea in reforming their employment protection system during the...

Thematic brief

Thailand labour market update. Concern remains over the drawn out impact of COVID-19

The ILO brief finds high levels of joblessness among young Thai workers due to pandemic restrictions.

Thematic brief

COVID-19 and employment in the tourism sector in the Asia–Pacific region

A brief from the ILO highlights COVID-19 impacts on tourism employment in Asia and the Pacific that have left the sector reeling from job losses, deterioration in work quality and shifts towards increased informality.

Brief

“How to” Manage Adaptively in Value Chain Development Projects

The enhancement of input-output based employment assessment tools for EU operations in sub-Saharan Africa

COVID-19 Pandemic in the World of Work

ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work. 8th edition

The report gives a global overview of how countries are grappling with the recovery, eighteen months into the crisis. Based on new data, it provides a detailed picture of the different recovery trends between developed and developing countries. It...

Putting Gender at the Heart of Business Environment Reform

This report charts some key entryways for better incorporating gender in business environment reform, with a focus both on policies themselves, and the processes for their proper implementation.

100 Years of Public Works in the ILO

This book chronicles the breadth and depth of ILO’s engagement in Public Works Programmes (PWPs) over the last century. It describes the journey, the ideas and the innovations that have emerged in a shifting global economic, social and political...

COVID-19 and the world of work

COVID-19: policy responses in Indonesia (Last updated: 6 October 2021)

Countries, including Indonesia, are taking unprecedented measures to combat the spread of the disease, while ameliorating its pernicious effect on the economy and labour market.

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Green Jobs Assessment Report

This study assess the social, employment and economic impacts of Zimbabwe’s climate policies. Impacts on the labour market, gender, economic growth and emissions are assessed. Renewable energy policies dominate investments notably into hydropower...

COVID-19 and the world of work

COVID-19 crisis and policy response in the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean. One year after: labour market and social protection...

Disclaimer 1: Throughout this publication the term Caribbean represents the English- and Dutch-speaking part of the sub region. Disclaimer 2: The information contained in this publication is actualized to the month of October 2021 (15th). By the...

Automation and its employment effects: a literature review of automotive and garment sectors

ADWA'

Rapid Labour Force Survey On the Impact of COVID-19 in Morocco: Third Wave

This document summarises the key findings of the third wave of rapid labour force surveys conducted by ILO and ERF between March 11th and April 24th 2021 to monitor the impact of COVID-19 on households, household enterprises and farmers in Morocco.