Books and reports
October 2019
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Studies on Growth with Equity
What Works: Promoting Pathways to Decent Work
16 October 2019
This report analyses how income support and ALMPs can come together to tackle a significant set of barriers limiting access to decent work in emerging and developing countries.
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Report
Small Matters: Global evidence on the contribution to employment by the self-employed, micro-enterprises and SMEs
10 October 2019
Drawing on a new ILO database, this report provides an up-to-date and realistic assessment of the global contribution of self-employment and micro- and small enterprises to employment – both in the formal and the informal economy.
September 2019
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Report
Labour Provisions in G7 trade agreements: A comparative perspective
17 September 2019
This report provides an analysis of labour provisions in G7 trade arrangements, focusing on current trends and developments. It was prepared as a contribution to the G7 Social Employment Task Force on “Reshaping multilateral action to strengthen social justice.
July 2019
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Report
Time to Act for SDG 8 : Integrating Decent Work, Sustained Growth and Environmental Integrity
10 July 2019
This report presents progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 8, analyses interlinkages with other SDGs and provides policy recommendations.
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Report
Working on a warmer planet: The effect of heat stress on productivity and decent work
01 July 2019
June 2019
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Book
If you want peace, cultivate justice: A photographic history of the ILO, 1919–2019
10 June 2019
May 2019
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Publication
Guide to developing balanced working time arrangements
28 May 2019
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Report
Towards convergence in Europe: Institutions, labour and industrial relations
28 May 2019
This book provides a unique and timely analysis of the socio-economic indicators influencing convergence trends in the EU.
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Global report
Women in Business and Management: The business case for change
22 May 2019
Our second global report on Women in Business and Management offers new insights into how gender diversity at the top improves organizational performance. These include how the many dimensions of an organization’s policies, a gender-balanced workforce and a gender-inclusive culture, among other factors, move the needle for more women to hold decision-making power.
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Report
Working conditions in a global perspective
06 May 2019
This report provides a comparative analysis of job quality covering approximately 1.2 billion of the world’s workers in the EU28, China, the Republic of Korea, Turkey, the United States (US), Spanish-speaking Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama), Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.