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

March 2023

  1. Publication

    Socio-economic profiling of refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt

    21 March 2023

    This study is an attempt to survey and better understand the socio-economic characteristics of refugees and asylum seeking populations in Egypt

  2. Publication

    Results of pilot trials on greenhouse productivity and working condition with 12 selected farmers in Akkar and the Bekaa

    16 March 2023

  3. Publication

    No Escape: Assessing the relationship between slavery-related abuse and internal displacement in Nigeria, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    15 March 2023

    The International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and Walk Free conducted a study to estimate the prevalence of slavery-related abuse among people who experienced displacement.

  4. Fair and ethical recruitment

    Regional operational guidelines on fair and ethical recruitment in ASEAN. Improving regulation and enforcement: A resource for regulators

    09 March 2023

    The regional operational guidelines provide guidance to government regulators on fair recruitment practices, licensing private recruitment agencies, monitoring recruitment processes, and acting on complaints related to the recruitment process. Developed within the framework of the ILO general principles and operational guidelines for fair recruitment, these regional operational guidelines are relevant to both countries of origin and destination.

February 2023

  1. ILO Brief

    Intervention Model: For extending social protection to migrant workers in the informal economy

    28 February 2023

  2. ILO Working paper 88

    The impact of Covid-19 on South African migrant wage workers and the self-employed

    28 February 2023

    When Covid-19 struck the South African government declared some of the strictest lockdowns worldwide. The impact of lockdowns on the working classes was especially severe. Initially many workers were left with no income, leading to warnings that a pandemic of hunger may eclipse the deadliness of the Covid-19 pandemic.

  3. Country factsheets

    ILO PROSPECTS at a glance

    17 February 2023

    The country factsheets provide an overview of the key interventions and results of PROSPECTS programme implementation.

  4. Publication

    ILO’s work to Strengthen the Socioeconomic Integration of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean

    16 February 2023

    Our region currently faces the largest human displacement in its history and the second largest in the world: the Venezuelan displacement

  5. Publication

    SKILLS RECOGNITION MECHANISMS FOR SELECTED OCCUPATIONAL PROFILES OF MIGRANT WORKERS IN ETHIOPIA, KENYA AND SOUTH AFRICA

    16 February 2023

    The ILO Country Office for Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan, and for the Special Representative to the AU and the ECA, through its “Better Regional Migration Management” project financed by the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) carried out a feasibility study on skills recognition mechanisms for selected occupational profiles, namely, domestic work and welding. The analysis of the study focused on different economic contexts and labour migration governance mechanisms, namely the intra-regional migration corridor: Ethiopia-South Africa, and the free mobility within a regional economic community (IGAD), with emphasis on the Ethiopia-Kenya migration corridor.

  6. Publication

    COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE STATE OF LABOUR MARKET AND MIGRATION INFORMATION SYSTEM IN ETHIOPIA

    16 February 2023

    Labour Market and Migration Information System (LMMIS) provides policy makers with up-to-date and forward-looking information for the formulation and monitoring of policies and actions that have an impact on the workforce and the labour market. It also acts as a system of alerts about possible gaps between labour supply and demand, thus it informs training institutions of unmet training needs. Considering this, the ILO Country Office for Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan, and for the Special Representative to the AU and the ECA, through its “Better Regional Migration Management” project financed by the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) carried out a comprehensive assessment on the state of Labour Market and Migration Information System in Ethiopia. The assessment provided an overview of existing and available labour market and migration related data collection and analysis frameworks, systems and structures in Ethiopia, identified the strengths and weaknesses of existing labour market and migration related data collection and processing systems, and the specific data requirements to develop labour migration policies that are evidence-based and gender sensitive and that reflect real labour market needs.