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

Qatar's minimum wage: FAQs for employers

Frequently Asked Questions to help employers understand the non-discriminatory minimum wage for Qatar.

Brochure

Sustaining peace through decent work and employment

This brochure was jointly developed by the ILO and the UN Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO) of the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA). It aims to consider how underemployment and decent work deficits can exacerbate,...

Women domestic workers

Socio-economic impact of COVID-19 and beyond on women domestic workers in Nepal

The report aims to unfold the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 and beyond on women domestic workers in Nepal along with challenges faced and the way forward.

Research brief

COVID-19 and rising wage inequality: Trends and challenges in Thailand and Viet Nam

This brief presents quantitative trends in wage inequality in Thailand and Viet Nam during the COVID-19 crisis in 2020. Based on various measures, it highlights the rise of inequality as wages have been increasingly concentrated among the highest...

COVID-19 Pandemic in the World of Work

ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work. 7th edition

The Institutional Features of Minimum Wage in China

ILO Working paper 18

More is more. Livelihood interventions and child labor in the agricultural sector

This paper presents the results of two randomized livelihood intervention programmes aimed to reduce child labor, particularly in its most exploitative forms, in rural areas of Peru and the Philippines. It assess whether livelihood support...

Executive Summary

Global Wage Report 2020-21: Wages and minimum wages in the time of COVID-19

Flagship report

Global Wage Report 2020-21: Wages and minimum wages in the time of COVID-19

This ILO flagship report examines the evolution of real wages around the world, giving a unique picture of wage trends globally and by region. The 2020-21 edition analyses the relationship of minimum wages and inequality, as well as the wage impacts...

COVID-19 in Iraq: Private Sector Impacts

This factsheet presents findings from two assessments on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on households and enterprises in Iraq carried out in June and July of 2020, one-a Panel Study of Small and Medium Enterprises- by IOM, FAO and ITC, and a...

COVID-19 and the world of work

COVID-19: policy responses in Indonesia (Last updated: 20 October 2020)

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.

Research brief

The supply chain ripple effect: How COVID-19 is affecting garment workers and factories in Asia and the Pacific

This research brief assesses the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on workers and factories in garment supply chains in Asia and the Pacific, presenting evidence from the main garment-exporting countries of the region, summarizing policy responses and...

Employment-Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) Technical Brief

Public Employment Programmes (PEPs)

Public Employment Programmes (PEPs) are publicly financed and government-implemented long-term investment programmes that directly create employment through productive activities with a high labour intensity, rather than through the expansion of...

COVID-19

Quick impact assessment of COVID-19 pandemic on the key economic sectors: Responses, adjustment and resilence of business and workers

With the objective of studying the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic and the responses and the adjustment processes by businesses and workers, the research is mainly based on two surveys of 58 firms and 292 workers in tourism, garment, electronics,...

Employment Intensive Projects in Lebanon: Guidelines

This document provides guidance on implementing sound EIPs, structured around key guiding principles, including the principles of decent work, and based on global experiences and on emerging good practices from programmes in Lebanon.

COVID-19 Pandemic in the World of Work

ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work. 6th edition

Synthesis report: Skills shortages and labour migration in the field of information and communication technology in Canada, China, Germany,...

COVID-19 and the world of work

COVID-19: policy responses in Indonesia (Last updated: 17 September 2020)

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.

Statistics: Gender pay gaps in Indonesia

Gender pay gap is the gaps in average wages paid to women and men

COVID-19 and the world of work

COVID-19: policy responses in Timor-Leste (Last updated: 8 September 2020)

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.