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Occupational safety and health profile for Nepal

The profile is an inventory of all the tools and resources available in the country to implement and manage occupational safety and health (OSH) and is designed to provide the data necessary for setting national priorities for action aimed at the...

Country practices for measuring informal sector and informal employment

Room document to support the discussions at the Meeting of Experts on Labour Statistics in Preparation for the 21st International Conference of Labour Statisticians

Conceptual Framework for Statistics on the Informal Economy

Room document to support the discussions at the Meeting of Experts on Labour Statistics in Preparation for the 21st International Conference of Labour Statisticians

Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting of Experts in Labour Statistics on the Revision of the Standards for Statistics on...

Dependent Contractors and the framework of the informal economy

Room document to support the discussions at the Meeting of Experts on Labour Statistics in Preparation for the 21st International Conference of Labour Statisticians

Contextualising informality: The Informal Economy Indicator Framework (draft)

Room document to support the discussions at the Meeting of Experts on Labour Statistics in Preparation for the 21st International Conference of Labour Statisticians

Defining informality for contributing family workers

Room document to support the discussions at the Meeting of Experts on Labour Statistics in Preparation for the 21st International Conference of Labour Statisticians

ILO Brief

Asia–Pacific Sectoral Labour Market Profile: Information technology and other information services

This brief is published as a companion piece to the ILO Asia–Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2022: Rethinking sectoral strategies for a human-centred future of work.

ILO Brief

Asia–Pacific Sectoral Labour Market Profile: Health and social work

This brief is published as a companion piece to the ILO Asia–Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2022: Rethinking sectoral strategies for a human-centred future of work.

ILO Brief

Asia–Pacific Sectoral Labour Market Profile: Accommodation and food service activities

This brief is published as a companion piece to the ILO Asia–Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2022: Rethinking sectoral strategies for a human-centred future of work.

ILO Brief

Asia–Pacific Sectoral Labour Market Profile: Agriculture

This brief is published as a companion piece to the ILO Asia–Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2022: Rethinking sectoral strategies for a human-centred future of work.

Statistical Profile of the media and culture sector

This Profile provides a statistical description of employment patterns and recent trends in the media and culture sector, including data for the 2020 COVID-19 period.

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Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2022: Rethinking sectoral strategies for a human-centred future of work (Summary)

Labour markets are recovering from the COVID-19 crisis in Asia and the Pacific, but now face new challenges like inflation and geopolitical tensions. The report gives the regional labour market context and makes a first-time assessment of regional...

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Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2022: Rethinking sectoral strategies for a human-centred future of work

Labour markets are recovering from the COVID-19 crisis in Asia and the Pacific, but now face new challenges like inflation and geopolitical tensions. The report gives the regional labour market context and makes a first-time assessment of regional...

Contribution of the forest sector to total employment in national economies - Estimating the number of people employed in the forest sector

This study employs a new method to fill the gaps of missing data points in order to provide sound total employment estimates in the forest sector on a global scale.

ILO Working paper 84

Engendering informality statistics: gaps and opportunities

Informality is a dynamic and multidimensional concern that demands gender-sensitive data. In 2018, globally, more than 60% of employment was informal. However, global averages hide that in more countries the share of women in informal employment...

ILO Monitor on the world of work. 10th edition

The 10th edition of the monitor provides a global overview of how overlapping economic and geopolitical crises are threatening labour market recovery worldwide and how these crises are fueling the divergence between developed and developing...

Measuring Cooperatives: An information guide on the ILO Guidelines concerning Statistics of Cooperatives

This information guide provides practical guidance for the ILO’s Member States toward implementing the Guidelines concerning Statistics of Cooperatives which was adopted at the 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) in October...

Child labour stand-alone surveys compendium

ILO Working paper 78

Labour market policies for inclusiveness: A literature review with a gap analysis

This paper reviews the role of specific fiscal spending and transfer programmes in shaping labour market dynamics by disentangling different macroeconomic and microeconomic mechanisms.