Publications on labour migration

April 2022

  1. Publication

    Decent work in forced displacement - Newsletter No. 6

    21 April 2022

    This is the sixth edition of the update covering key initiatives and achievements of the ILO PROSPECTS for the period of December 2021 to April 2022.

September 2019

  1. Research Department Working Paper n°46

    Identifying Syrian Refugees in Turkish Microdata

    17 September 2019

    This article proposes a strategy to identify Syrian refugees in Turkey’s Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) using propensity score matching. This methodology is then used to find the actual geographical distribution of Syrian refugees in Turkey.

December 2015

  1. Publication

    Internal Labour Migration in Myanmar: Building an evidence-base on patterns in migration, human trafficking and forced labour

    21 December 2015

    This report presents the results of a survey conducted in mid-2015 among 7,295 internal labour migrants across all 14 states/regions in Myanmar. The respondents were interviewed about jobs in 13 industries in the private sector, including construction, mining, agriculture, manufacturing, fishing, forestry, domestic work and others. Analysis of the survey data points to patterns in the recruitment, migration, working and living conditions among respondents, as well as indicators of abuse and exploitation imposed on workers by employers and recruiters.

November 2014

  1. Meeting document

    Agenda: Realising a Fair Migration Agenda: Labour flows between Asia and the Arab States Expert Meeting

    19 November 2014

October 2014

  1. MiWORC Policy Brief 2

    Migration and employment in South Africa Statistical and econometric analyses of internal and international migrants in Statistics South Africa’s labour market data

    01 October 2014

August 2014

  1. MiWORC Report 6

    Migration and employment in South Africa: An econometric analysis of domestic and international migrants (QLFS (Q3) 2012)

    01 August 2014

July 2014

  1. MiWORC Report 5

    Migration and employment in South Africa: Statistical analysis of the migration module in the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, third quarter 2012

    01 July 2014

July 2013

  1. MiWORC Policy Brief 1

    A region without borders? Policy Frameworks for regional labour migration towards South Africa

    03 July 2013

  2. MiWORC Report 4

    Improving the quality of available statistics on foreign labour in South Africa: Suggestions for a Quarterly Labour Force Survey migration module and municipal-level surveys

    02 July 2013

  3. MiWORC Report 3

    Improving the quality of available statistics on foreign labour in South Africa: Strategic recommendations

    02 July 2013