All publications: productivity

Sustainable Development Goals

Trade Union Reference Manual on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

This reference manual, seeks to assist trade union leaders, members and sympathizers, in their engagement in these national strategies for sustainable development.

Productive development, transition to formality and labour standards. Prioritary areas of work for the ilo in Latin America and the...

This publication contains three documents, one for each of the priorities. Each document provides a brief analysis of the situation and trends in the region's countries in each area and explains how it aligns with the ILO's mandates and global...

Market system analysis - Dominican Republic

Creating shared value in the Dominican Republic banana industry

A market systems analysis of plantation business performance and worker wages

Working paper

Wastewater and jobs: The Decent Work approach to reducing untreated wastewater

This working paper discusses the potential of investments of wastewater and how they impact productivity, livelihoods, job creation, skills needs, occupational safety and health, and women’s employment. It further identifies the respective roles of...

Developing and running an establishment skills survey - Guide to anticipating and matching skills and jobs Vol. 5

Part of the compendium of methodological guides on anticipation and matching of skills supply and demand developed by the European Training Foundation (ETF), the International Labour Office and the European Centre for the Development of Vocational...

Mid-term evaluation summary

Skills for employment and productivity in Bangladesh

Rapid market assessment - Peru

Wooden furniture export market and its potential for growth - in Spanish

Studying the wood furniture value chain’s potential for export-driven inclusive growth in Peru.

SCORE India Case Study: Helping enterprises to integrate migrant workers through SCORE Training

India is witnessing a huge movement of migrant labor especially from northern and eastern parts of India to Western and Southern States. While this is triggering economic prosperity for these workers and help host States meet their demand for labor,...

SCORE Programme Brief - Phase II

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises programme at a glance

A Market Systems Approach to Decent Work

A Market Systems Approach to Decent Work

Practical guidance on how to combine vocational and business management training

SCORE Colombia Case Study: SCORE Training in regions of armed conflict

Empowering organizations of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) in Colombia

Carrying out tracer studies: Guide to anticipating and matching skills and jobs, Volume 6

This guide is a part of the European Training Foundation (ETF), the ILO and the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) series of guides on skills anticipation and matching.

Developing skills foresights, scenarios and forecasts: Guide to anticipating and matching skills and jobs, Volume 2

This guide is a part of the European Training Foundation (ETF), the ILO and the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) series of guides on skills anticipation and matching.

Working at sectoral level: Guide to anticipating and matching skills and jobs, Volume 3

This guide is a part of the European Training Foundation (ETF), the ILO and the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) series of guides on skills anticipation and matching.

Research Department Working Paper n°15

Debt and productivity: Evidence from firm level data

This paper uses firm level data to shed light on the relationship between finance and economic growth.

SCORE China Case Study: Meiyue Knitting Company is a brighter place to work

By listening to employee suggestions Meiyue Knitting Company in Nanxun District, China, the enterprise reduced electricity costs while brightening up the workplace for staff members.

Research Department Working Paper n°14

Firm dynamics and business cycle: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger?

An analysis on the impact of recessions and booms on firm performance looking at 70,000 firms in over 100 countries between 1986 and 2014

Crafting Kuza: Towards a systemic approach to job creation for youth in Mombasa

Witnessing progress in youth employment in the micro-distribution and retail sectors of Mombasa, Kenya