All resources: digital labour + digital divide + artificial intelligence + gig economy + data protection + algorithmic management

ILO Working paper 102

A Technological Construction of Society: Comparing GPT-4 and Human Respondents for Occupational Evaluation in the UK

The paper systematically compares GPT-4's evaluations of occupations with those from a high-quality human survey in the UK, finding high correlation but also highlighting the potentials and risks of using LLMs in sociological and occupational...

PROSPECTS podcast series - Episode 2

Understanding Digital Risks: Protecting Displaced and Host Communities in the Digital Economy

Transcript: Understanding Digital Risks: Protecting Displaced and Host Communities in the Digital Economy

Research Paper

Platform work in developing economies: Can digitalisation drive structural transformation?

This paper discusses the expansion or penetration of digital economic activity in the context of developing economies, and what this may mean for economic or structural transformations for countries in the global South.

ILO Working paper 101

An unfinished task? Matching the Platform Work Directive with the EU and international "social acquis"

This paper seeks to explore the key emerging regulatory dimensions of platform work. It contextualizes the challenges associated with platform work as an expression of the consolidated features that, in the past decades, have been transforming the...

International Journal of Labour Research

Workers’ organizations must play key role in developing effective and sustainable social contract

The 2023 edition of the International Journal of Labour Research aims to stimulate reflection on what a new social contract might address and more specifically the role of workers’ organizations in engaging in this debate within the multilateral...

Generative AI and jobs: A global analysis of potential effects on job quantity and quality

Webinaire organisé par le Bureau de l'OIT pour la France, Paris, le 12 décembre 2023

Advancing Kenya's digital infrastructure: navigating challenges and embracing AI

With the support of the ILO, the Community of Practice on Digital Skills and Jobs gathered to analyze the main obstacles to overcome infrastructural challenges and to find pathways to ensure fair and inclusive access to emerging AI technologies.

News item

ILO launches first global report on public employment services and active labour market policies for transitions

Public employment services have a central role in responding to crises and fostering recovery to ensure efficient and well-functioning labour markets. This Q&A provides details from the first global report by the ILO on public employment services,...

International Journal of Labour Research

A new social contract: Achieving social justice in an era of accelerating change

This 2023 edition of the International Journal of Labour Research (IJLR), aims to stimulate reflection on what a new social contract might entail and more specifically the role of workers’ organizations in engaging in the design and establishment of...

ILO Working paper 100

The platform economy and transformations in the world of work: The case of delivery platform workers in Santiago, Chile

This paper examines the experiences of delivery workers on digital labor platforms in Chile and analyses the implications of the platform business model. It highlights challenges in working conditions and algorithmic management practices, which are...

ILO Working paper 99

Digital labour platforms and national employment policies in China: Studying the case of food delivery platforms

This paper takes the food-delivery platforms as a case study to examine the impact of digital labour platforms on employment and labour market in China. It reviews the recent employment policies in the digital economy including policies of labour...

New Technologies

Digital campaigning for Trade Unions in Transformation

Alex White explains Why Trade Unions should engage in digital campaigning, what works and what does not, and what is the power of analytics to maximize impact.

Engaging with platform cooperatives to build a fairer digital economy

ILO participates and contributes to a multi-stakeholder dialogue that shed light on the platform cooperatives as a viable alternative in the platform economy and pathways towards strengthening platform cooperatives in Thailand.

PROSPECTS podcast series - Episode 1

Bringing digital skills and jobs for youth in rural areas and refugees in Turkana, Kenya

Transcript: Bringing digital skills and jobs for youth in rural areas and refugees in Turkana, Kenya

Transcript: Artificial Intelligence and the future of work: A threat or a promise?

Interview with Uma Rani, a Senior Economist at the ILO’s Research Department and Enrique Fernandez Macias, a researcher at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

Global challenges- Global solutions podcast

Artificial Intelligence and the future of work: A threat or a promise?

European Employment and Social Rights Forum

ILO underlines importance of human-centered approach to artificial intelligence

Report - Skills demand and supply in South Africa's digital economy: A focus on youth not in employment, education or training