All publications: productivity

Women's Entrepreneurship Development (WED) in South Africa - The Abafazi Incubator Project: Public-Private Partnership

Well designed partnerships are essential to developing women's entrepreneurship through their unique ability to mobilize funds, ensure the sustainability and use of ILO tools and approaches, and generate new opportunities to collaborate.

SCORE Training Brochure for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's)

How SCORE Training can enhance business performance for SME's

Success Stories from Tourism Enterprises in South Africa

Case studies from the ILO Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) project

The Youth Guarantee programme in Europe: Features, implementation and challenges

Indonesia: Wages and productivity for sustainable development

Indonesia has sustained over a decade of economic growth, and this has provided an environment that has allowed growth in wages and regular wage employment to outperform most other countries in the world.

Employment and wages in Indian manufacturing: Post-reform performance

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 185

The Boss Project in Timor-Leste: Thin markets, thick impact?

SCORE Case Study Indonesia: PT. Indo Veneer Utama delivered OSH Improvements that benefited all

PT. IndoVeneer, a furniture manufacturer in Central Java, implemented SCORE Training module "Safety and Health at Work: A platform for productivity". Under the supervision of Labour Inspectors from Central Java Province, they created a plan to...

SCORE China Case Study: Chongqing Jianghua work safety and productivity improvement

A factory in China, Chongqing Jianghua Rubber and plastic manufacturing Company Limited was able to make very substantial improvement in the work process that not only boosted productivity but also greatly improved work safety.

Work4Youth Publications

Labour market transitions of young women and men in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

This report presents the results of the School-to-work transition surveys (SWTS) implemented in six countries in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region – Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, the former Yugoslav Republic...

ASEAN Community 2015: Managing integration for better jobs and shared prosperity in Myanmar

This paper was prepared for the International Labour Organization (ILO) as a background study. It is based on data from previously published sources, information gathered in Myanmar's employees'and employers'forums and primary data collected through...

Are active labour market policies effective in activating and integrating low-skilled individuals? : An international comparison

SCORE Training Brochure for Small and Medium Enterprises in Ghana

SCORE Training Brochure for Small and Medium Enterprises in the Garment Sector

SCORE Training Brochure for Small and Medium Enterprises in the Tourism Sector

Indonesia: Trends in wages and productivity January 2015

Indonesia has sustained over a decade of economic growth and growth in wages and regular wage employment continue to outperform most other countries in the world. To illustrate, growth trends continue for regular employees with 42.4 million people...

Is there a trade-off between employment and productivity?

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 167

Responsible Workplace Practices

The ILO approach to responsible workplace practices - Sustainable Enterprises

How can ASEAN and Japan mutually benefit from ASEAN economic integration?

This paper reviews the evolution of the economic and political relationship between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Member States and Japan since the 1970s, from the perspectives of trade in goods and services, foreign direct...

Assessing the impact of ASEAN economic integration on labour markets

This study estimates the implications of the regional integration initiatives on ASEAN Member States using a cutting-edge computable general equilibrium model. In addition to gauging the effects on welfare, trade and economic structure, it considers...