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International Journal of Labour Research

COVID-19 and Recovery: The Role of Trade Unions in Building Forward Better

This year's International Journal of Labour Research explores strategies for workers and their organizations to shape COVID-19 response policies as well as adapting internally to provide vital services to workers and continue fulfilling their...

ILO Working paper 35

Estimating labour market transitions from labour force surveys: The case of Viet Nam

This paper discusses methodologies to estimate the incidence and frequency of labour market transitions, and applies these methodologies to labour force survey data from Viet Nam in 2011-19. It demonstrates the feasibility and value of transitions...

Training Policy Brief

How to improve working conditions for gig workers in Thailand?

While Thai platform workers enjoy flexibility and independence, they are deprived of security at work resulting from unclear employment status. Given insufficient benefits generated from platforms, gig workers can only be protected under social...

Training Policy Brief

How to reduce undeclared work in the Republic of Croatia?

Undeclared work is not a foreign phenomenon in the Republic of Croatia. Various reasons lead to its appearance. It has negative consequences for the entire community. On the one hand, employers face cases of unfair competition, workers suffer from...

Training Policy Brief

How to better protect women’s health and safety at work in Spain?

Equality between women and men in the workplace is not only an objective of democratic societies but also an indicator of development that must transform political agendas. In Spain, with a labour force participation rate for women of 46%, the...

Training Policy Brief

How to improve Graduate Apprenticeship Programme in India?

Apprenticeship is one of the most effective tools to bridge the skill gap. India is currently vying to be the global manufacturing hub; a well-functioning apprenticeship system can lead to realizing this objective. This policy brief presents a...

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) mapping for refugees, asylum seekers and host communities in Egypt

Actuarial analysis of a proposed unemployment insurance scheme in Indonesia

The report assesses the cost of implementing an unemployment insurance (UI) scheme in Indonesia and identifies which factors influence the cost of such a scheme. This report considers a specific design option for the UI scheme, as well as...

Africa Regional Fair Recruitment Report: The recruitment of migrant workers to, within and from Africa

The “Africa Regional Fair Recruitment Report: The recruitment of migrant workers to, within and from Africa” comprises an expanded view of the recruitment of African migrant workers to disentangle the recruitment, migration and employment aspects of...

Social protection

Quarterly Social Security Policy Monitor China - Issue 7

The Social Security Policy Monitor is produced by the ILO under the EU-China project “Improving China’s Institutional Capacity towards Universal Social Protection”. It captures latest social security policy development in China, EU and globally.

Financing for development in the era of COVID-19 and beyond: Consultation with NGOs and Civil Society organizations

Cluster 2: socio-economic response: social protection, gender, children, youth, health, education, and human rights

Financing for development in the era of COVID-19 and beyond: Consultation with Youth

Cluster 2: socio-economic response: social protection, gender, children, youth, health, education, and human rights

Policy Proposal for Entrepreneurial Culture: Start-up and enterprise support services

Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in North Macedonia: Market Assessment

Barriers for Access to Finance for MSMEs in North Macedonia: Stock of existing data and knowledge

Book

Internships, Employability and the Search for Decent Work Experience

This groundbreaking book examines the growing phenomenon of internships, and the policy issues that they raise, during a time when internships or traineeships have become an important way of transitioning from education into paid work.

Preferential tax regimes for MSMEs: Operational aspects, impact evidence and policy implications (epub)

Preferential tax regimes for MSMEs: Operational aspects, impact evidence and policy implications (mobi)

ILO Working Paper 33

Preferential tax regimes for MSMEs: Operational aspects, impact evidence and policy implications

Inclusive Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Analysis in Montenegro