All publications: livelihoods + income generating activities + remuneration + minimum wage + low wages + incomes policy + income

Enhancing local employment, skills and enterprises in Nahr El Bared, Lebanon (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project LEB/08/05/UNR - Evaluation consultant: Ziad Moussa

On the income dimension of employment in developing countries

Employment Working Paper No. 72

Economic growth, employment and poverty reduction: A comparative analysis of Chile and Mexico

Employment Working Paper No. 78

Sri Lanka’s working poor

This paper presents a profile of Sri Lanka's working poor in terms of stock and characteristics; attributes associated with the probability of being working poor, and the reasons why the employed poor earn too little to overcome poverty.

African Briefing: Global Wage Report 2010/11

Global Wage Report 2010/11: Wage policies in times of crisis

The second in a series of ILO reports focusing on wage developments, this volume reviews the global and regional wage trends during the years of the economic and financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.

Executive summary of the Global Wage Report 2010/11: Wage Policies in times of crisis

Policy Brief 16 - Income generation and sustainable livelihoods for people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS

The global financial and economic crisis threatens to reverse the gains made in HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support programmes in many middle and low income countries. The Global Jobs Pact (GJP) addresses the social and employment...

Local economic development in the form of tourism in Jayawijaya, Papua Highlands (booklet)

In July 2010, the ILO through its Entrepreneurship Skills Development Project undertook an assessment of tourism development in Jayawijaya, the largest regency in the highlands of Papua before it was divided into five regencies in the year 2008, to...

Working Conditions Laws 2010

Working Paper No. 97 - Rural inequality, wage employment and labour market formation in Africa: Historical and micro-level evidence

INWORK Policy Brief No. 3

Inequality, income shares and poverty: The practical meaning of Gini coefficients

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 26

Extending the coverage of minimum wages in India: Simulations from household data

This paper simulates the impact of extending the coverage of minimum wages on poverty, inequality and gender pay gap in India. The analysis shows that if all wage-earners were covered by minimum wages at the existing levels, then a large proportion...

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 24

A comparison of public and private sector earnings in Jordan

Working Paper No. 96 - Are Middle-Paid Jobs in OECD Countries Disappearing? An Overview

The minimum wage revisited in the enlarged EU

This book assesses the renewed interest in the minimum wage in Europe, looking at the main explanatory factors alongside EU enlargement and the advent of globalization. Through 15 country studies and thematic case studies, it explores the national...

2009 Labour Overview. Latin America and the Caribbean.

The 2009 Labour Overview is special because it recounts the entire scenario of the global crisis and its effect on employment in our region. It also contains some forecasts on what may occur this year in the labour market.

World of work report 2009. The global jobs crisis

This World of Work Report from the International Institute for Labour Studies presents a highly relevant discussion of the jobs crisis resulting from the financial and economic crisis, in a non-technical manner, based on the latest data and economic...

Working Conditions of Contract Workers in the Oil and Gas Industries

Working paper 276

Team-based maintenance of rural roads - conceptual guide

The guide provides a detailed overview of the team-based maintenance of rural roads activities that was piloted by the ILO in two districts in Nepal; Dhanusha and Ramechhap. It promotes labour-based preventative maintenance of rural roads to...