Technical Reports on Labour Migration

  1. The migrant pay gap: Understanding wage differences between migrants and nationals
  2. Skills mismatch of natives and immigrants in Europe
  3. Migrant Workers in Commercial Agriculture
  4. International Migrant Workers in the Mining Sector
  5. Migrant Work & Employment in the Construction Sector

Publications on labour migration

May 2022

  1. Publication

    Call for applications: Garissa camel value chain implementing partners

    25 May 2022

  2. Publication

    Call for proposals for Implementing Partners of Non-for-profit Organizations - Promotion, inclusion and protection of refugees in the gig economy in PROSPECTS countries

    24 May 2022

  3. Brochure

    Partnership for improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons and host communities - Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq

    23 May 2022

    In this second edition of the ILO PROSPECTS Arab States brochure, the ILO presents some of its latest work under the programme.

  4. Labour migration

    Working and employment conditions in the agriculture sector in Thailand: A survey of migrants working on Thai sugarcane, rubber, oil palm and maize farms

    20 May 2022

    Agriculture has historically been the backbone of the Thai economy, employing the majority of the national working age population. While the sector has seen a decline in the number of workers in recent years, some 12.7 million workers, approximately 30 per cent of Thailand’s total labour force, work in agriculture today. Increasingly, the sector is depending on migrant workers from Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Myanmar to fill the growing labour shortages in the sector.

  5. TRIANGLE in ASEAN

    TRIANGLE in ASEAN Quarterly Briefing Notes

    17 May 2022

    TRIANGLE in ASEAN works with labour ministries, workers' and employers' organizations, recruitment agency associations, civil society organizations in six countries in ASEAN; Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Below Quarterly Briefing Notes give an update on our work during the previous quarter.

  6. International Migration Review Forum

    ILO Pledge for the International Migration Review Forum 2022

    13 May 2022

    Fair and effective labour migration frameworks are critical to achieving the objectives set out in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and to creating a more equal and just society. ILO will continue to bring together governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, UN agencies and other stakeholders to support the achievement of these objectives.

  7. Briefing note

    The impact of the Ukraine crisis on the world of work: Initial assessments

    11 May 2022

    This note provides an initial assessment of the impact of the Ukraine crisis on the world of work in Ukraine, its neighbouring countries and beyond.

  8. Publication

    Occupations and skills assessment for youth in selected refugee settlements of Isingiro, Arua and Madi Okollo districts in Uganda

    05 May 2022

April 2022

  1. Publication

    Terms of Reference (TOR)- Digital skill development and freelancing programme for refugees and host communities in Greater Cairo, Alexandria, and Damietta.

    28 April 2022

  2. ILO Working paper 60

    Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda

    25 April 2022

    We study the impact of mobile internet rollout on Rwanda’s labour market. Areas with higher mobile internet coverage experience an increase in employment opportunities, especially towards high skilled and high-value-added activities.