Tools and Services

This section is based on a typology compilation of ILO publications, tools and services prepared by the Policy Department. It is reorganised to match the 24 thematic areas and provides appropriate ILO research papers, instructional material, publications, project documentation, ILO-ITC online courses, toolkits, etc.

2017

  1. ILO Research paper No. 20

    The impact of minimum wage increases on the South African economy in the Global Policy Model

    09 November 2017

    This paper uses the United Nations Global Policy Model (GPM) to assess the impact of increases in minimum wages on the South African economy. The results indicate that higher (relative) real wage growth rebalances national income, and the labour share increases since relative wages rise and employment is roughly maintained.

  2. Instructional material

    Guidance note on integrating Food and Nutrition Security into Country Analysis and UNDAF (Guide for UNCTs) – UNDG approved

    09 August 2017

  3. Publication

    Can productivity in SMEs be increased by investing in workers’ health? Taking stock of findings on health protection of workers in small and medium-sized enterprises and their impacts on productivity

    09 August 2017

  4. Web page

    Guide: Governance of Social Security Systems-A Guide for Board Members in Africa, 2010

    08 August 2017

    This guide is part of the ILO QUATRAIN AFRICA project which has the objective of improving training in quantitative social security techniques in Africa. Without prescribing precise rules for coping with particular issues, guidance for social security board members in general and on a range of specific issues is provided.

  5. Web page

    Course: (Turin) Training workshop on financing skills development

    08 August 2017

  6. Web page

    Course: (Turin) Unchaining rural supply chains: global trends and local innovations

    08 August 2017

  7. Web page

    Course: (E-learning) Distance training in best practices in ILS reporting

    08 August 2017

  8. Web page

    Course: (Turin, E-learning) Decent work and sustainable development

    08 August 2017

  9. Web page

    Course: Rural Economy Academy, 2017

    08 August 2017

  10. Employment Policy Brief

    New automation technologies and job creation and destruction dynamics

    12 May 2017

    This policy brief addresses the following question: is the labour-replacing potential of the technological revolution so far-reaching that it is inherently different from what has been experienced in the past, and on balance is an inhibitor rather than a generator of decent work?