All publications: digital labour + gig economy
Research Department Working Paper n°48
Trade wars and their labour market effects
Recent years have seen a remarkable reversal in trade liberalization with the significant raises in tariffs on imports among major G20 economies. This working paper discusses the rationale for these policy shifts, provides an overview of recent...
Social Dialogue and the Governance of the Digital Platform Economy: Understanding Challenges, Shaping Opportunities
Preparing for the future of work: National policy responses in ASEAN +6 - Annex I
Inventory of Asia-Pacific national responses to technological change
Annex 1 of the “Preparing for the future of work: National policy responses in ASEAN +6” report presents an inventory of policies, strategies and programmes adopted or undertaken by the governments of ASEAN +6 countries in response to technological...
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Preparing for the future of work: National policy responses in ASEAN +6
Spurred by technological advancements, demographic shifts and environmental and climate disruptions, fastpaced transformations are affecting how, where and when people work, impacting our labour markets and shaping the future of work. Preparing for...
Future of work
Digitalization and decent work: Implications for Pacific island countries
This report identifies emerging trends of digitalization globally and their associated impact on businesses, workforce, particular older workers, women, and young workers. It also presents findings of interviews and surveys conducted with over 60...
Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 106
Regulatory options for conflicts of law and jurisdictional issues in the on-demand economy
Provides a global framework for thinking about the on-demand business model and assorted conflicts of law and jurisdictional issues.
Skills shortages and labour migration in the field of information and communication technology in India, Indonesia and Thailand
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Working conditions in a global perspective
This report provides a comparative analysis of job quality covering approximately 1.2 billion of the world’s workers in the EU28, China, the Republic of Korea, Turkey, the United States (US), Spanish-speaking Central America (Costa Rica, El...
Policy responses to new forms of work: International governance of digital labour platforms
Background paper prepared for the 2nd meeting of the G20 Employment Working Group under the Japanese G20 presidency (Tokyo, 22-24 April 2019)
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Digital labour platforms and the future of work: Towards decent work in the online world
The report offers one of the first comparative studies of working conditions at five of the major, global, online micro-task platforms.
Executive summary: Digital labour platforms and the future of work
This report provides one of the first comparative studies of working conditions on five major micro-task platforms that operate globally.
Concept note for thematic plenary sitting 4
Preparing the future of work we want: The digital economy and labour skills and competences
Work on Digital Labour Platforms in Ukraine: Issues and Policy Perspectives
The surveys focused specifically on working conditions of online platform workers in Ukraine, and show that digital labour platforms have transformed the modes of work and changed how work is viewed by both businesses and workers.
Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 94
Organizing On-Demand: Representation, Voice, and Collective Bargaining in the Gig Economy
Decent Work in the Platform Economy
This technical note provides a brief overview of recent developments in the platform economy in terms of employment, the nature of work and job quality and then outlines major policy issues. The review draws on the existing empirical literature and...
Violence and Harassment at Work
The Threat of Physical and Psychosocial Violence and Harassment in Digitalized Work
The workplace is changing rapidly, due to the recent increase of new technologies. Digitalization is impacting management and organisation of workplaces across the world, transforming how, how much, where, and under what conditions, people work.
Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 74
Income security in the on-demand economy: Findings and policy lessons from a survey of crowdworkers
Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 71
The rise of the "just-in-time workforce": On-demand work, crowdwork and labour protection in the "gig-economy"
The digital labour challenge: Work in the age of new media
This sectoral working paper outlines how technology has been the driver of change in the media and entertainment sector, in the habits of consumers, and in the labour market.