Working papers
-
ILO Working paper 48
Technological solutions to guaranteed wage payments of construction workers in China
15 February 2022
-
ILO Working paper 44
Investing more in universal social protection. Filling the financing gap through domestic resource mobilization and international support and coordination
14 January 2022
Large and persistent gaps in social protection coverage, comprehensiveness and adequacy are linked to many barriers, including high levels of informality, institutional fragmentation of the social protection system and significant financing gaps for social protection in a context of limited fiscal space.
-
ILO Working paper 43
Investing better in universal social protection. Applying international social security standards in social protection policy and financing
13 January 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed significant gaps in the coverage, comprehensiveness and adequacy of social protection systems worldwide. These gaps have jeopardized the health, incomes and jobs of billions of people. Closing these protection gaps, facilitating faster and inclusive socio-economic recovery and enhancing resilience against future shocks requires more investment in social protection.
-
ILO Working paper 42
Social policy advice to countries from the International Monetary Fund during the COVID-19 crisis: Continuity and change
10 December 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive disruptions to the global economy and forced policymakers to respond to the newly created challenges. Many policy institutions have therefore had to rethink their established approaches and their usual policy responses.
-
ILO Working paper 41
Supporting decent work and the transition towards formalization through technology-enhanced labour inspection
21 October 2021
-
ILO Working paper 40
Financing human-centred COVID-19 recovery and decisive climate action worldwide: International cooperation’s twenty-first century moment of truth
07 October 2021
This Working Paper provides a concrete illustration of how the existing international financial architecture could be activated more fully to mobilize the large sums required to respond decisively to the “great divergence” in COVID-19 crisis recovery between advanced and developing countries as well as to the climate crisis.
-
ILO Working paper 39
Welfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits when Informality is High
05 August 2021
We analyze for the first time how the high incidence of informal employment affects the welfare effects of unemployment benefits (UBs) outside of developed economies, exploiting matched administrative and survey data from the UB scheme of Mauritius. We find positive and large welfare effects, because the consumption drop at layoff exceeds what studies find for high-income countries, while the efficiency costs are comparatively low. In addition, UB recipients appear to move into informal employment out of economic necessity, rather than as part of a strategic choice.
-
ILO Working paper 38
Freelance platform work in the Russian Federation: 2009–2019
26 July 2021
This paper traces the development of freelance platform work in the Russian Federation based on unique data from four online surveys conducted over the period 2009 and 2019 via the leading platform for creative and knowledge-based work and analyses the working conditions and well-being of the workers.
-
ILO Working paper 37
Trade and Decent Work: Adequate Earnings in the Mexican Manufacturing Industries
13 July 2021
This paper analyses the impact of non-preferential trade liberalization and exposure to globalization on “adequate earnings” in Mexico between 2003 and 2020, using data from the national labour force and manufacturing industries surveys. Trade liberalization and globalization contributed to a reduction in working poverty and low-wage workers.
-
ILO Working paper 36
Trade agreements and decent work in Mexico: the case of the automotive and textile industries
29 June 2021
The study applies the framework of decent work indicators developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO), in combination with input–output analysis, to explore selected links between international trade and certain indicators of decent work in two industries of Mexico’s manufacturing sector: automotive and textile.