COVID-19 and employment policies: Resources and tools
Policies for supporting enterprises, jobs and income
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Guidelines for employment diagnostics in times of continuous change
08 March 2023
This guidance note outlines ILO’s approach to employment diagnostics in order to analyse labour market dynamics in continuous change.
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Creating jobs in low- and middle-income countries through demand-side policies
06 February 2023
This brief focuses on demand-side policies for promoting employment in LMCs. The aim is to lay the conceptual foundations for a policy debate on employment promotion in LMCs.
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Guidelines for shaping employment policies that support a green recovery and a just transition
30 August 2022
These Guidelines assist ILO constituents and technical specialists to design and implement employment policies that enhance a green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis and also contribute to a just transition over the longer term
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Income support for non-covered workers during COVID-19: a review of policy responses
26 August 2022
This paper provides an overview of the income support measures for non-covered workers implemented in response to the COVID-19 crisis, describing the collection of measures and policies in place in each selected country.
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Policy sequences during and after COVID-19: A review of labour market policy patterns
24 June 2022
This policy brief tracks the sequential logic of labour market policies across a sample of countries from all world regions.
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Promoting youth employment during COVID-19: A review of policy responses
24 June 2022
This report gives an overview on actual policy responses in the area of youth employment during the COVID-19 crisis in 20 selected countries.
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Job retention schemes during COVID-19: A review of policy responses
24 June 2022
This report provides an update on job retention policies in a sample of 20 countries representing the main world regions as well as the diverse types of job retention schemes, in particular short-time work, furlough and wage subsidy schemes as they have been implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Alternative Data Sources for Labour Market Diagnostics and Policy Response: Applications in the COVID-19 era and beyond
21 June 2022
This brief explores the opportunities and challenges posed by non-conventional data sources, offering policy makers a resource in how to improve employment diagnostics and resultant policy response.
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Lessons learned from employment diagnostics during the COVID-19 crisis
27 May 2022
The overall objective of this document is to provide policymakers, development practitioners and social partners with a better understanding of the different types of employment diagnostic approaches that have been undertaken during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Labour overview of Latin America and the Caribbean in times of COVID-19
EMPLOYMENT Seminar #39 - This seminar will present an updated overview of labour and income indicators of Latin America and the Caribbean since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to the end of 2021 to better understand the impact as well as the stage of recovery and serve as a basis to see which employment and labour market policies had an impact.