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.

Policy resource package

Extending social security to workers in the informal economy. Information and awareness

15 March 2021

If workers and employers do not know what social protection schemes are available to them, what their rights and responsibilities are and how they can access such schemes, then social protection policies and programmes have little chance of succeeding. Limited access to information and awareness may significantly hinder the extension of social security.

ILO Working paper 25

Homeworking in the Philippines: Bad job ? Good job ?

09 March 2021

This report focuses on two categories of homeworkers in the Philippines: industrial homeworkers, who assemble or fabricate goods for factories, retailers or their agents under subcontracting arrangements; and online workers, who render services to their clients or employers via telecommunications technologies and digital platforms.

Briefing note

Research brief 3: Social Security of Platform Workers in China: findings and recommendations from two studies (2018-2019)

04 February 2021

ILO Working paper 24

Online digital labour platforms in China: Working conditions, policy issues and prospects

02 February 2021

This paper summarizes the results of an ILO survey, conducted in 2019, of workers’ characteristics and working conditions on three major digital labour platforms in China.

ILO Working paper 22

Home-based work and homework in Ghana: An exploration

22 January 2021

This research report explores the nature and character of home-based work and the more narrow concept of homework in Ghana.

Publication

Working from home: From invisibility to decent work

13 January 2021

With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many in the world’s workforce have shifted to homeworking, thereby joining the hundreds of millions of workers who have already been working from home for decades.

ILO Working paper 21

Home bounded - Global outreach: Home-based workers in Turkey

18 December 2020

This report focuses on industrial home-based pieceworkers and IT-enabled remote workers, who are commonly referred to in Turkey as “freelancers”.

Policy resource package

Extending social security to self-employed workers

30 June 2020

Key lessons learned from international experience

Publication

Women’s Entrepreneurship Development

01 March 2016

The ILO approach to Women’s Entrepreneurship Development - Sustainable Enterprises