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

December 2018

  1. Research Department Working Paper n°40

    What drives old age work in China?

    24 December 2018

    The aim of this paper is to contribute to an understanding of the decisions of the near old and older Chinese to work, and how work characteristics vary across genders, localities, and within overall income and security situations as ageing advances.

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

January 2014

  1. Publication

    Reporting on Rural Issues

    27 January 2014

    This guide is a tool for people working in the media to think differently and report differently about rural areas. It provides key facts and figures about rural communities and issues, and aims to shatter some dominant stereotypes and negative clichés when covering rural issues.

  2. Publication

    Chapter 8: Songaï, Benin

    27 January 2014

    Songhaï is an NGO empowering rural African communities, particularly farmers, youth, and women, by building their capacities to become agricultural, agribusiness, and handicraft entrepreneurs.

  3. Publication

    Chapter 7: Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), India

    27 January 2014

    The Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) is a membership-based organization created in 1972 from a combination of the labour, women, and cooperative movements, to organize self-employed women in the informal economy and assist their collective struggle for social justice, equality, and fair treatment.

  4. Publication

    Chapter 5: The Nyamata Telecentre and the Rwanda Telecentre Network (RTN), Rwanda

    27 January 2014

    Founded in 2004, the Nyamata Telecentre is a private enterprise whose goal is to stimulate rural development by providing access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the village of Nyamata, located near Rwanda’s capital Kigali.

  5. Publication

    Learning from Catalyst of Rural Transformation

    27 January 2014

    This publication reviews 8 cases of "Catalyst" of rural transformation from different countries. It extracts lessons that remind us of the economic and development potential of rural areas, and most important, the central role of rural men and women, young people, indigenous populations and other groups to unleash that potential.

July 2013

  1. MiWORC Policy Brief 1

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

    03 July 2013