All publications: skilled workers + unskilled workers + training + skills + lifelong learning

Policy brief

Skills development and lifelong learning in India: Challenges for trade unions

This brief provides a macroeconomic perspective of skills development and lifelong learning in India. It examines outcomes for the population and the workforce thus far and highlights the main areas of weakness. It also analyses the social and...

Policy brief

Skills development and lifelong learning in Singapore: Challenges for trade unions

This brief examines skills development and lifelong learning in Singapore. The approach takes a macroeconomic perspective of the main challenges and outcomes in terms of labour market performance.

Policy brief

Skills development and lifelong learning in the Philippines: Challenges for trade unions

This brief examines the policy framework for skills development and lifelong learning in the Philippines, provides a macroeconomic perspective of the outcomes and identifies areas of potential weakness. It also analyses the social and demographic...

Policy brief

Skills development and lifelong learning in the Republic of Korea: Challenges for trade unions

This brief examines skills development and lifelong learning in the Republic of Korea. The approach takes a macroeconomic perspective of the main challenges and examines selected outcomes in terms of labour market performance.

Policy brief

Skills development and lifelong learning in Viet Nam: Challenges for trade unions

This brief examines skills development and lifelong learning in Viet Nam. The approach takes a macroeconomic perspective on the main challenges and the outcomes in terms of labour market performance.

ILO Working paper 65

Skills and employment transitions in Brazil

This paper analyses employment transitions and workers’ skills in Brazil between 2003 to 2018, developing a novel procedure to derive a measure of occupational distance and internationally comparable skill measures from occupations’ task...

Responsible supply chains

Driving change: A market systems analysis of responsible business practices in Thailand’s automotive parts sector

The study was conducted to generate in depth knowledge and map the automotive sector in Thailand.

Skills and labour market transitions for refugees and host communities

POST COVID-19

The Next Normal: The changing Workplace in Africa – Ten Trends from the COVID-19 Pandemic that are Shaping Workplaces in Africa

The destabilizing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have had dramatic social, economic and health effects across the African continent. Despite these challenging circumstances, many enterprises and their workers across the continent have taken a wide...

Occupations and skills assessment for youth in selected refugee settlements of Isingiro, Arua and Madi Okollo districts in Uganda

Infographic: RSCA Programme in action

A summary of the programme's approach and impact.

ILO Working paper 60

Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda

We study the impact of mobile internet rollout on Rwanda’s labour market. Areas with higher mobile internet coverage experience an increase in employment opportunities, especially towards high skilled and high-value-added activities.

Tracer study: Skills Profiling Application in Egypt for refugees and host communities

ILO PROSPECTS Egypt in collaboration with Skilllab, a social start-up based in the Netherlands, and the Association of Businessmen in Alexandria (ABA), piloted a skills-profiling application that enables refugees and host communities to self-assess...

Employment Working Group

Initial review of community-based vocational training (CBVT) in G20 countries

This report was prepared by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for the 1st G20 Employment Group Meeting in 2022. It addresses one of the priorities identified by the Indonesian Presidency.

Policy guidance note: Digitalizing career guidance services

This policy guidance note provides advice to decision makers, managers and technical staff on how to invest in digitalizing career guidance services 

Can a private-sector model train SMEs in the long-run? Lessons from SCORE Training in Myanmar for inspiration

ILO Working paper 49

How to strengthen informal apprenticeship systems for a better future of work?: Lessons learned from comparative analysis of country cases

This paper undertakes a meta study on informal apprenticeship in developing countries. It compares the findings of country-level research conducted by the ILO and others in the past 15 years to shed more light on apprenticeship systems in the...

Brief

When OSH is Good for Business

A Guidance Note on Using Market Systems Development to Advance Occupational Safety and Health among MSMEs

Mapping workers with disabilities in Indonesia

This report aims to provide an overview of employment for workers with disabilities from its first publication in 2017, describing the progress that has been made and to analyse the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers with disabilities in...

Labour Inspection Technical Note on strategic compliance planning for decent work in global supply chains