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Technical note 3: International experiences and standards in monitoring the employment and social security coverage of workers in the...

ILO Working Paper 26

Hurricanes and their implications for unemployment: Evidence from the Caribbean

Although extreme climate events pose significant challenges to labour markets, there is a paucity of empirical literature studying their impacts. The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of hurricane strikes on unemployment across a sample...

Strengthening Gender Measures and Data in the COVID-19 Era: An urgent need for change

The ILO has joined with partners in the production and use of gender statistics to issue a call to action to improve gender data, building on lessons learned and gaps exposed or exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. This brief highlights 5 key...

Labour administration application 2.0 user guide

This user guide is for the data entry software, developed by the ILO Office for the Caribbean, under the supervision of Mr Diego Rei, ILO Employment and Labour Market Policies Specialist, and with the programming input of Mr Kerwyn Roach, over the...

Making women migrant workers count: Sex disaggregation of labour migration statistics in ASEAN (2019 data)

The International Labour Migration Statistics (ILMS) Database in ASEAN has been published annually since December 2014. In validating, annotating and gathering information from relevant surveys and administrative records produced in ASEAN, ILMS...

Child labour statistics

Viet Nam National Child Labour Survey (NCLS) 2018 - Key findings

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Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2020: Navigating the crisis towards a human-centred future of work

The Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2020 report pulls together the most recent statistics to generate an assessment of the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had so far on employment and labour markets in the most populous and dynamic...

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Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2020: Navigating the crisis towards a human-centred future of work [Summary]

The Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2020 report pulls together the most recent statistics to generate an assessment of the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had so far on employment and labour markets in the most populous and dynamic...

Women in managerial and leadership positions in the G20 - Data availability and preliminary findings

Stocktaking report prepared for the Empowerment and Progression of Women's Economic Representation (EMPOWER) under the Saudi G20 Presidency

Defining and measuring remote work, telework, work at home and home-based work

Working from a distance and working at home are not new phenomena but the relevance of their measurement has increased, not least due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This notes provide guidance to data producers on how the four different concepts of...

2019 Recruitment Costs Pilot Survey Report-Ghana, Measuring SDG Indicator (10.7.1)

This report presents the survey results and examines the recruitment costs, monthly earnings, and Recruitment Cost Indicator (RCI) of migrant workers taking into account their socio-demographic characteristics such as age, occupation, the industry...

TRIANGLE in ASEAN

Recruitment fees and related costs: What migrant workers from Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Myanmar pay to work in...

This report presents the findings of a survey on recruitment fees and related costs paid by migrant workers from Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Myanmar to work in Thailand.

TRIANGLE in ASEAN

Effective return and reintegration of migrant workers with special focus on ASEAN Member States

This report was prepared as the background document for the ASEAN Workshop on Reintegration Programmes for Returning Migrant Workers (27–28 August 2019) in Yogyakarta, organized by the Ministry of Manpower, Government of Indonesia, and the ILO...

Fair recruitment - SDG 10.7.1

Operational manual on recruitment costs

This Operational Manual on Recruitment Costs – SDG 10.7.1 aids in the collection and dissemination of data on recruitment costs and serves as a means of setting standards to produce comparable data across countries.

Reflections on work. Perspectives from the Southern Cone of Latin America on the occasion of the ILO Centenary

The articles in this book explore many of the ILO’s core topics and how they have evolved over time. Some topics have persisted as concerns since the time of the ILO’s creation, whereas others – like just transition to environmental sustainability –...

Labour Force and Household Living Conditions Survey (LFHLCS) in Lebanon 2018–2019

Lebanon's Central Administration for Statistics (CAS) and the ILO have published nationally representative statistical data on the current conditions of work in the country.

Fair recruitment

Guidelines for collecting statistics for SDG indicator 10.7.1 on recruitment costs

This set of Guidelines for the collection of statistics for SDG indicator 10.7.1 on reducing recruitment costs, identifies a number of conceptual issues and definitions with respect to measuring recruitment costs borne by an employee as a proportion...

SDG indicator 10.7.1

Questionnaire template for measuring recruitment costs of migrant workers

ILO-World Bank Model Paper and Pen Interview (PAPI) used in module for countries of origin – Return migrant workers. Short form - version3.

Countries in Focus on Statistics of Cooperatives

Statistics on Cooperatives Country in Focus: Nepal

Child Labour Statistics

Timor-Leste National Child Labour Survey 2016 - Analytical Report