All publications: care economy
Report
Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work
This report takes a comprehensive look at unpaid and paid care work and its relationship with the changing world of work. A key focus is the persistent gender inequalities in households and the labour market, which are inextricably linked with care...
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Cooperatives meeting informal economy workers' child care needs
Cooperatives set up and run by workers in the informal economy are among the solutions in meeting women workers’ care needs, while also helping protect their labour rights. This report complements the ILO's previous studies with cases from Brazil,...
Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 95
Conceptualizing the role of intermediaries in formalizing domestic work
Maternity protection and workers with family responsibilities in the formal and informal economy of Ghana. Practices, gaps and measures for...
Working Paper No. 1 / 2017
Cash transfer programmes, poverty reduction and women’s economic empowerment: Experience from Mexico
This working paper on cash transfers in Mexico presents the impact of a major national cash transfer programme on health, education, income, poverty, labour force participation, time use and bargaining power of women at the household and community...
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Summary of Key Findings - Cooperation among workers in the informal economy: A focus on home based workers and waste pickers
This is a summary of key findings of the report “Cooperation among workers in the informal economy: A focus on home-based workers and waste pickers”. This report is part of the joint ILO and WIEGO initiative, which aims to understand the nature and...
World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends for women 2017
This report provides a portrait of the situation of women in the world of work today and their progress over the past 20 years.
Providing Care through Cooperatives 2: Literature Review and Case Studies
Today, care is provided in myriad forms, from childcare and eldercare to care for persons living with a disability or illness. What is more, the need for care is growing worldwide, driven by demographic shifts including the growing ageing population...
Basic English and Arabic words for Care Work: Promoting Decent Work for Care Providers – Instructors manual
Instructors manual for a language course to teach migrants who will take up care work basic vocabulary in English and Arabic
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Women at Work Trends 2016
This report provides the latest ILO data on women’s position in labour markets, examines the factors behind these trends and explores the policy drivers for transformative change.
Providing Care through Cooperatives 1: Survey and Interview Findings
Cooperatives are emerging as an innovative type of care provider, particularly in the absence of viable public or other private options.This report lists challenges and opportunities that cooperatives face in the care sector, highlighting resources...
International Women’s Day 2015
The motherhood pay gap: A review of the issues, theory and international evidence
Evidence that mothers suffer a wage penalty over and above the penalty for being a woman raises concerns not only for gender equality but also for the capacity of societies to manage a sustainable balance between their economic aims of active female...
Working Paper
Cooperating out of Isolation: The Case of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait
While countries globally are moving towards recognizing domestic workers under their labour legislation, limited protection is provided to more than two million domestic workers working and living in the Middle East. The majority of these workers...
Maternity Protection in SMEs: An international review
This report reviews the key international literature on the outcomes of maternity protection in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It also addresses the questions of how, to what extent and under what conditions maternity protection in SMEs...
Cooperatives and the World of Work Series No. 2
Cooperating out of isolation: Domestic workers’ cooperatives
This note on ways cooperatives provide a way out of precarious and informal working arrangements for domestic workers, is the third in the series on Cooperatives and the World of Work.
The Informal Economy and Decent Work: A Policy Resource Guide supporting transitions to formality
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Maternity Protection Resource Package
The Maternity Protection Resource Package provides guidance and tools to strengthen and extend maternity protection to all women in all types of economic activity.
HIV and AIDS Education and Counselling Manual in Cooperatives and Informal Sector Economy
A manual to educate and sensitize cooperative members and informal workers on HIV and AIDS.
Workplace solutions for childcare
Workplace partnerships are effective for working parents considering childcare solutions. The focus of this book is on why workplace partners around the world have become involved in childcare and about the nature of programmes that have been...
Working Paper No. 86 - The unpaid care work - paid work connection