All publications: digital labour + gig economy
Digital refugee livelihoods and decent work - Towards inclusion in a fairer digital economy [Full report]
The digitization of the world of work is fundamentally transforming how refugees can make a livelihood and obtain employment. A rapidly expanding global digital economy harbours countless new opportunities but it also poses a range of challenges and...
Digital refugee livelihoods and decent work - Towards inclusion in a fairer digital economy [Summary]
This report offers the first comparative global assessment of the emerging field of digital livelihoods and digital work among refugees. The insights are based on eight unique case studies that are authored by leading experts in their respective...
Digitalization in teaching and education in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda and the United Republic of Tanzania
ILO Working paper 27
Platform work and the employment relationship
This working paper analyses national and supranational case law and legislation about the employment status of platform workers. It does so by referring to the ILO Employment Relationship Recommendation, 2006 (No. 198). It finds that this...
Brief
From potential to practice: Preliminary findings on the numbers of workers working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic
ILO Working paper 25
Homeworking in the Philippines: Bad job ? Good job ?
This report focuses on two categories of homeworkers in the Philippines: industrial homeworkers, who assemble or fabricate goods for factories, retailers or their agents under subcontracting arrangements; and online workers, who render services to...
World Employment and Social Outlook 2021
The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work
This ILO flagship report explores how the contemporary platform economy is transforming the way work is organized, and analyses the impact of digital labour platforms on enterprises, workers and society as a whole.
World Employment and Social Outlook 2021
Summary: The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work
This report examines how digital labour platforms are transforming the world of work and how that affects employers and workers. It focuses on two main types of digital labour platform: online web-based platforms, where tasks are performed online...
Research brief 3: Social Security of Platform Workers in China: findings and recommendations from two studies (2018-2019)
ILO Working paper 24
Online digital labour platforms in China: Working conditions, policy issues and prospects
This paper summarizes the results of an ILO survey, conducted in 2019, of workers’ characteristics and working conditions on three major digital labour platforms in China.
Executive Summary
Working from home: From invisibility to decent work
ILO Working Paper 11
Digital Labour Platforms and Labour Protection in China
This paper explores the implications of the digital labour platforms for labour regulation in China and the potential applicability of existing laws and regulations to platform work.
Digital Labour Platforms and Labour Protection in China(mobi)
This paper explores the implications of the digital labour platforms for labour regulation in China and the potential applicability of existing laws and regulations to platform work.
Digital Labour Platforms and Labour Protection in China(epub)
This paper explores the implications of the digital labour platforms for labour regulation in China and the potential applicability of existing laws and regulations to platform work.
Synthesis report: Skills shortages and labour migration in the field of information and communication technology in Canada, China, Germany,...
Skills shortages and labour migration in the field of information and communication technology in Canada, China, Germany and Singapore
Policy Brief 1: Review of international experience in social insurance sickness benefits for gig workers
Technical Brief
Using digital technologies in employment-intensive works
This technical brief presents examples of the Employment-Intensive Investment Programme’s (EIIP) use of digital technologies during the planning, implementation, monitoring and closure/evaluation phases of a project cycle.
Social dialogue and the Future of Work
Enhancing social partners’ and social dialogue’s roles and capacity in the new world of work
Social dialogue and the Future of Work
Enhancing social partners’ and social dialogue’s roles and capacity in the new world of work