Instructional material

Social dialogue in the health services: A tool for practical guidance – The handbook for practitioners

01 January 2005

Quantitative Methods in Social Protection Series

Actuarial practice in social security

01 January 2004

Presents technical material on valuation covering a wide-range of risks including old age, survivors, disability, sickness, maternity, employment injury, and unemployment. Provides concrete examples of work done by actuaries. It discusses the valuation of pensions, short-term cash benefits like sickness, maternity and unemployment insurance and examines the valuation of employment injury benefits as well. In addition, the book devotes special attention to what should be included in the actuarial report and presents a practical exercise to illustrate the important points discussed in the volume.

Normative instrument

Guidelines concerning a statistical definition of informal employment

01 November 2003

Publication

Standards for the XXIst Century: Social Security

01 January 2002

Describes the characteristics of the ILO’s social security standards, highlighting their universality and flexibility and their common principles. Examines the protection afforded in each of the nine branches of social security and considers the treatment of migrant workers.

Publication

Community contracts in urban infrastructure works : practical lessons from experience

01 January 2002

Socio-Economic Technical Papers (SETP) No. 13 - English Version

Publication

Employment-Intensive Infrastructure Programmes: Capacity building for contracting in the construction Sector

01 January 1999

Provides a set of guidelines for programmes which aim to integrate cost-effective employment-intensive approaches into infrastructure works while respecting basic labour standards and working conditions.

Publication

Employment-intensive infrastructure programmes : labour policies and practices

01 February 1998

Based on studies and the experience of ILO technical cooperation projects. Includes recommendations for government ministries, and workers’ and employers’ organizations.

Publication

International migration statistics. Guidelines improvement of data collection systems

02 December 1997

The first comprehensive publication on this topic, this book aims at strengthening the capacity of countries to generate relevant and more meaningful data on international migration, which would assist in the formulation and analysis of migration policy. Topics include the international comparability of migration data, the potentials and weaknesses of existing data collection systems and the development of meaningful surveys.