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

Team-based maintenance of rural roads -Implementation manual

The manual complements the Conceptual guide to implement the team-based maintenance activities. It is meant to be used as training manual during the initial training of the teams and as a reference manual during the execution of the activities.

Conclusions of the Subregional High Level Conference: The Impact of the Financial and Economic Crisis: Wage Fixing and Policy Responses...

Global Wage Report: 2009 Update

The present report is an update of the Global Wages Report 2008/09 released in November 2008. While a comprehensive assessment will be provided in the next full Global Wage Report in 2010, the present update already provides some indications of wage...

Investment Budget Execution Support for Rural Infrastructure development and employment generation (TIM Works) (Mid Term Evaluation Summary)

Projects TIM/08/50/NET, TIM/08/50/NOR, TIM/08/51/EEC, TIM/08/52/IRL - Evaluation Team: Bas Athmer (Team Leader) and Ms. Emma Allen (Research Officer)

Forced labor: Coercion and exploitation in the private economy

PRAISE FOR FORCED LABOR "Excellent. . . . This state-of-the-art volume provides a first-rate analysis of the dynamics leading to the occurrence of forced labour, its global distribution,and different types of policy responses." -Jens Lerche, SOAS,...

Skills development for economic empowerment and the creation of livelihoods after the Tsunami (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project SRL/05/08/BEL - Evaluation Team: K.A.L. Premaratne, Mark Anthony Warnakula and Prof. K. Thadchanamoorthy

ILO Working paper 92

Working Paper No. 92 - Gender (in)equality, globalization and governance

Promoting equity: Gender-neutral job evaluation for equal pay. A step-by-step guide

Significant gender disparities in pay are amongst the most resilient features of labour markets. This step-by-step guide sets out the various methodological components of the process and explains the criteria, which should be met in order to avoid...

8th European Regional Meeting - Facts on new wage challenges: trends and policy issues

The region from mid-90s has experienced some improvements in terms of real wage growth, particularly in countries of Central and Eastern Europe which are now in the EU. However, income and wage differences have widened over the same period.

8th European Regional Meeting - Facts on quality of working life

Wages, working time and work organization, maternity protection and the work-life balance are some of the many interlinked dimensions of the quality of working life and of decent work.

2008 Labour Overview. Latin America and the Caribbean.

Urban unemployment declined for the fifth consecutive year in 2008 in Latin America and the Caribbean, but the international crisis brought to an end the positive trend and it is estimated that in 2009 the number of unemployed persons could...

Guidelines

Promoting Equity: gender-neutral job evaluation for equal pay. A step-by-step guide

This Guide, to be used when mplementing the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value, free from discrimination based on sex, as enshrined in the ILO Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100), is in keeping with the Follow-up to...

Global Wage Report 2008/09: Minimum wages and collective bargaining: Towards policy coherence

Global Wage Report 2008/09: Minimum wages and collective bargaining: Towards policy coherence

Global Wage Report 2008/09 Towards policy coherence: Minimum wages and collective bargaining

The first in a new series of ILO reports focusing on wage developments, this volume reviews major trends in the level and distribution of wages around the world since 1995. It considers the effects of economic growth and globalization on wage...

World of Work Report 2008 - Income inequalities in the age of financial globalization

Income inequalities have been growing significantly within countries over the past two decades or so. This new report from the International Institute for Labour Studies presents a timely assessment of this issue, based on new data and economic...

World of Work Report 2008 - Income Inequalities in the Age of Financial Globalization

Informal employment in Sri Lanka: Nature, probability of employment, and determinants of wages

A discussion paper on informal employment situation and wages in Sri Lanka.

Globalization, Flexibilization and Working Conditions in Asia and the Pacific

This unique study reviews employment conditions in Asia and the Pacific in the context of globalization and the increasing pressures towards flexibilization. It places a strong focus on the divergent experiences of individual workers regarding their...

Empowerment of women in the informal economy

Social and economic empowerment of women in the informal economy: Impact case study of Sikap Buhay

Trends in wages and earning in India: Increasing wage differentials in a segmented labour market

The study is an attempt to explore the levels of and trends in variations in wage payments across different segments of the labour market in India.