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Global Employment Policy Review 2025: Do employment-responsive policies work? How impact assessments, diagnostics and dialogue contribute to the answer

This edition focuses on the role of impact assessments, diagnostics and social dialogue in addressing the question: “Do employment responsive policies work?” It also addresses policy-coordination dialogue among different entities within governments as well as dialogue among international organizations working on impact assessments.

Executive Summary - Global Employment Policy Review 2025 - PDF 596.82 KB Résumé analytique - Examen des politiques de l’emploi dans le monde 2025 - PDF 628.64 KB Resumen ejecutivo - Examen de las políticas de empleo en el mundo 2025 - PDF 610.14 KB

The 2025 edition of the Global Employment Policy Review (GEPR) addresses employment impact assessments in an era of economic and social transformation. It provides a review of recent employment impact assessment studies undertaken by the ILO Employment Policy Department and affiliated colleagues in the regions, evaluating methods, types of policy interventions, breakdowns of employment impacts, and the role of social dialogue. The GEPR features chapters on state-of-the-art methods of employment impact assessments, macro-diagnostics, pro-employment budgeting and employment-related public expenditure reviews, and skills policies for promoting productivity.

The GEPR is intended for researchers and academics, other international organizations, and the general public with an interest in the creation of decent jobs. Given the publication’s themes, it is particularly hoped that it will prove useful to policymakers in government and to employers and workers and their respective organizations.

This edition of the GEPR includes seven chapters:

Chapter 1: Employment impact assessment: An ILO perspective
Rossana Galli, David Kucera, and Meili Fortunee Tuyisenge

Chapter 2: Macroeconomic policies for structural and socialtransformation: From diagnostics to dialogue
Luca Fedi, Iyanatul Islam, and Sher Verick

Chapter 3: Financing development: The role of pro-employment budgeting and employment-related public expenditure reviews
Eléonore d’Achon, Mauricio Dierckxsens, and Kee Beom Kim

Chapter 4: Assessing the economic and social dimensions of policies: Some applications of the Structural Model for Sustainable Development (SMSD)
Xiao Jiang and Massimiliano La Marca

Chapter 5: Economic and social impacts of transport corridor investments: A GIS data analysis for Kenya and Zambia
Alina Game, David Kucera, and Xi Kang

Chapter 6: The impact of trade union rights on trade: An industry-level approach
Leanne Roncolato, David Kucera, Mark Anner, and Dora Sari

Chapter 7: Building skills ecosystems for sustainable productivity improvements
Emily Erickson, John Buchanan, E.K. Sarter, Chris Warhurst, and Bolormaa Tumurchudur Klok