1. Catalogue of ILO Publications 2021

Publications

The ILO publishes a wide range of books, reports, working papers, training manuals, CD-ROMs, videos and flash movies, relevant to China and Mongolia. Some of these can be downloaded directly. Others can be requested from the ILO Library in Beijing.

2022

  1. Technological solutions to guaranteed wage payments of construction workers in China

    15 February 2022

2021

  1. Making decent work a reality for domestic workers: Progress and prospects in Asia and the Pacific, ten years after the adoption of the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)

    16 June 2021

    In 2011, the international community adopted the ILO’s Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), which recognized for the first time that domestic work is work and that domestic workers should enjoy the same labour protections as all other workers.

  2. Leveraging advanced technology to improve labour mobility governance

    25 May 2021

    This paper was prepared by Rebecca Napier-Moore and Anna Olsen and presented at session two of the Abu Dhabi Dialogue with the theme: Leveraging advanced technology to improve labour mobility governance on 25 May 2021.

2018

  1. Brochure-The ILO Global Business & Disability Network China Chapter

    31 July 2018

  2. Recruitment costs for Chinese workers in EU Member States - Case study: Chinese chefs in Germany

    30 May 2018

    The research aims to identify general challenges and the scope of migration costs for Chinese workers in the EU Member States.

  3. SCORE Training-Promoting the capacity of suppliers in global supply chains

    24 January 2018

2017

  1. Attracting skilled international migrants to China: A review and comparison of policies and practices

    28 September 2017

    The report reviews the existing policies and practices of China concerning the attraction of foreign professionals and other skilled international migrants with a comparative analysis of talent attraction policies and their outcomes in Germany, Japan, and Singapore. Based on a comparative study, recommendations are put forward for China to improve its foreign talent policies and practices in order to be more successful in the international competition for talents.

  2. Labour Migration From China to Europe: Scope and Potential

    06 September 2017

    The research presented in this report was conducted under the “EU-China Dialogue on Migration and Mobility Support Project”, funded by the EU and jointly carried out by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

  3. Executive Summary-Labour Migration From China to Europe: Scope and Potential

    06 September 2017

    The research presented in this report was conducted under the “EU-China Dialogue on Migration and Mobility Support Project”, funded by the EU and jointly carried out by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

  4. Executive Summary-Attracting skilled international migrants to China: A review and comparison of policies and practices

    21 August 2017

  5. Executive Summary-Migrant and cities: Research report on recruitment, employment, and working conditions of domestic workers in China

    02 August 2017

2016

  1. Newsletter Issue 4: EU-China Dialogue on Migration and Mobility Support Project

    14 December 2016

    This edition of project newsletter highlighted the important recent development, and summarized the project activities undertaken from June to November 2016, including: IOM joining the UN system; China upgraded its observer status and became a member of IOM; Recent national policy developments in China to attract high talent; ILO-ITC-COMPAS Training Workshop on Labour Migration: Challenges and Opportunities; ILO workshop on the scope and potential of China-EU two way labour mobility; Forum on researchers’ mobility for improved migration policies and better information flows; Counter-trafficking workshop on best practices in victim identification and protection; Exchange visit of Chinese high level officials in Europe to explore returns and readmissions mechanisms.

  2. Newsletter Issue 3: EU-China Dialogue on Migration and Mobility Support Project

    23 June 2016

    This edition of project newsletter offers an overview of the cooperation frameworks between EU and China in the area of recent migration related policy developments, mobility of researchers, schemes introduced by both sides to promote and attract top talent, and policy research and discussion on labour migration in China’s urbanization process with particular attention to the protection of vulnerable groups such as domestic workers. In addition, you will read analysis on the impact of the project activities, completed in the last quarter, on the overall objective of supporting the EU China Dialogue on Migration and Mobility.

  3. Newsletter Issue2: EU-China Dialogue on Migration and Mobility Support Project

    01 March 2016

    The focus of this edition is to share the outcomes of the project activities car-ried out in the last few months and what has been planned for the year ahead. Additionally and as usual, it will have some analysis on recent poli-cy and strategic developments and related legislative regulations in the EU and China in the area of migration and mobility.

2015

  1. Newsletter Issue1: EU-China Dialogue on Migration and Mobility Support Project

    01 May 2015

    The focus of this first issue is to introduce the project, its objectives, main actors as well as preliminary consultations, share analysis around the EU-China dialogue on Migration and Mobility, highlight latest policy developments, related legislative regulations established in the EU as well as in China and outline project activities that take place in parallel to these developments.

2011

  1. Promoting Decent Employment for Rural Migrant Workers

    25 November 2011

    This booklet presents an account of the policies to promote rural migrant workers' employment and draws lessons from their main achievements and challenges that are worth sharing with policy-makers around the world. Section one presents the history of migration policies in China since the 1950s, a profile of rural migrant workers today and the main consequences of internal migration of the country. Section two describes the policies and measures implemented between 1992 and 2008 to promote the employment of rural labourers. Section three provides some details on the support provided to rural migrant workers during and after the financial crisis. Section four concludes with the main achievements, challenges and way forward.

2010

  1. Employment conditions of Chinese migrant workers in the East Midlands: A pilot study in a context of economic recession

    01 August 2010

    The pilot study undertaken by Dr. Bin Wu, a Senior Research Fellow of China Policy Institue of the University of Nottingham, is part of a broader research programme and is also intended as a background paper to facilitate discussion between Chinese and non-Chinese stakeholders.

  2. Souls in exile: A study of Chinese migration workers in Romania

    01 August 2010

    This report is to show the path of migration of Chinese workers to Romania and to provide details on the labour business, covering their reasons for migration, salary and terms of employment among other related issues.

2008

  1. China: Planting seeds of security - how new agriculture skills protect children

    29 October 2008

    Highlights the proven practice implemented in China by the ILO Mekong Sub-regional Project to Combat Trafficking in Children and Women (TICW).

  2. China: Educating employers

    29 October 2008

    How awareness leads to self-monitoring.