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

Report

Two decades of national employment policies 2000-2020

Part I: Employment policy design: Lessons from the past, policies for the future

COVID-19 and the world of work

COVID-19: policy responses in Timor-Leste (Last updated: 27 September 2021)

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

Regional Report on Jobs and Growth in North Africa 2020

This report examines the relationship between the pace and pattern of growth and labour market outcomes in North Africa.

Responsible Supply Chains in Asia - Key Results 2019-2021

Moving towards a life course perspective to labour market transitions: approaches and challenges

Nigeria Green Jobs Assessment Report

One of the main questions in climate policymaking is to understand the economic and social costs and benefits. The potentional to create employment that these policies offer is of particular concern to developing and emerging economies with a young...

PEPs

Public Employment Initiatives and the COVID-19 crisis

A compendium of Infrastructure Stimulus, Public Employment Programs (PEP), Public Works programs case studies

Brief

“How to” Measure Job Quality in value chain development projects

Impact of minimum wages on wages and employment in selected Indian States

This paper attempts to gauge the impact of minimum wages on wages and employment in selected States and industries in the Indian context using the NSSO Periodic Labour Force Surveys 2017-18 and 2018-19.

Impact on labour supply due to COVID-19 containment measures in India: An informal employment analysis

This study looks at the employment situation in India, laying particular emphasis on informal employment.

Brochure

ILO Fair Recruitment Initiative Strategy 2021-2025 - Taking stock, moving forward

The Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI) was launched in 2014 as part of the ILO Fair Migration Agenda. Since its launch, the FRI has been critical to ILO’s work in the area of national and international recruitment of workers and has added renewed...

Towards a Productive and Inclusive Path: Job Creation in the Arab Region

This report by ESCWA and the ILO Regional Office for Arab States examines why Arab economies fail to create sufficient decent jobs. It provides guidance to policymakers, help reduce labour market deficits, especially in the formal private sector,...

Towards a Productive and Inclusive Path: Job Creation in the Arab Region - Policy Brief

Policy brief

COVID-19 and the ASEAN labour market: Impact and policy response

This policy brief highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on labour markets in the ASEAN region and looks at possible recovery scenarios. The brief shows estimates and projections of working-hour and employment losses, increased unemployment...

Publication

Towards decent work for young refugees and host communities in the digital platform economy in Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Egypt

This report explores job creation in the gig economy from the unique experiences and perspectives of youth and refugees, as well as from the viewpoint of digital labour and e-commerce platforms, digital training providers, start-up incubators,...

Report

A blast in the midst of crises: Impact of the Beirut port explosion on the city’s enterprises

This report presents findings from a study of 1,664 enterprises operating within a five-kilometre radius of the Port of Beirut explosion site, to better understand the impact of the blast on their businesses. The study is based on data from a...

COVID-19 and the world of work

COVID-19: policy responses in Indonesia (Last updated: 6 August 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.

Diversification, jobs, and the COVID-19 recovery

Diversification, jobs, and the COVID-19 recovery: Exploring opportunities for economic diversification and productive employment in the...

The United Nations in the Philippines, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization conducted a joint research on implementing an...

Unlocking opportunities to build a better normal

Resilient businesses and the pandemic: Unlocking opportunities to build a better normal: Towards gender-responsive and resilient micro-,...

This policy brief highlights strategic ways to unlock opportunities for MSMEs, capitalizing on various joint efforts towards recovering from the pandemic, rebuilding towards a better normal and promoting the creation of gender-inclusive, greener...

The use of GIS in employment impact assessments