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Volume 1

Promoting Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities: Quota Schemes (Vol. 1) MOBI

Employment quotas represent one of the most frequently used policy measures to promote work opportunities for persons with disabilities. Slightly over 100 countries around the world cur-rently provide for employment quotas in their national...

Volume 1

Promoting Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities: Quota Schemes (Vol. 1) EPUB

Employment quotas represent one of the most frequently used policy measures to promote work opportunities for persons with disabilities. Slightly over 100 countries around the world cur-rently provide for employment quotas in their national...

Volume 2

Promoting Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities: Quota Schemes (Vol. 2) MOBI

Employment quotas represent one of the most frequently used policy measures to promote work opportunities for persons with disabilities. Slightly over 100 countries around the world cur-rently provide for employment quotas in their national...

Volume 2

Promoting Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities: Quota Schemes (Vol. 2) EPUB

Employment quotas represent one of the most frequently used policy measures to promote work opportunities for persons with disabilities. Slightly over 100 countries around the world cur-rently provide for employment quotas in their national...

The scope of essential services: Laws, Regulations and Practices

Publication

Extension of the Multi-Employer Collective Bargaining Agreement in Trang Due Industrial Zone - Hai Phong

The publication gives introduction of the Multi-Employer Collective Bargaining Agreement signed among Korean electronics enterprises in Trang Due industrial zone, Hai Phong, and the ILO’s Standards and Significance of Collective Bargaining.

Securing the competitiveness of Asia’s garment sector: A framework for enhancing factory-level productivity

This paper establishes the need for productivity interventions in the Asian ready-made garment sector. It argues the rationale for addressing factory productivity as part of a wider strategy including an integrated approach to securing the sector’s...

Quality assessments of ILO project evaluations: Sustaining recent improvements

i-eval THINK Piece, No. 17 - December 2019 This Think Piece offers a reflection on the quality of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) decentralized evaluations appraised by Universalia in 2019 in the context of the Quality Appraisal (QA)...

Fair recruitment - SDG 10.7.1

Operational manual on recruitment costs

This Operational Manual on Recruitment Costs – SDG 10.7.1 aids in the collection and dissemination of data on recruitment costs and serves as a means of setting standards to produce comparable data across countries.

Training module for SMEs

Labour standards in global supply chains: How to meet them to become more competitive and sustainable. Training module for SMES and other...

The purpose of this training module is to help enterprises, in particular small - and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), understand the origins of these international frameworks, code of conduct for suppliers and audits, the different areas that they...

Labour migration

The future of work and migration

Thematic background paper for the 12th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML)

The Unpaid Care Work and the Labour Market. An analysis of time use data based on the latest World Compilation of Time-use Surveys

The Employment Generation Impact of Meeting SDG Targets in Early Childhood Care, Education, Health and Long- Term Care in 45 Countries

Ship to shore rights

Less is more: How policy and technology can impact the Thai labour market for work in fishing

This paper explores the reasons for the labour market dysfunction and possible responses by the Thai Government and employers, including capital investments that can help redress the chronic labour market imbalance and improve the economic viability...

Reflections on work. Perspectives from the Southern Cone of Latin America on the occasion of the ILO Centenary

The articles in this book explore many of the ILO’s core topics and how they have evolved over time. Some topics have persisted as concerns since the time of the ILO’s creation, whereas others – like just transition to environmental sustainability –...

Policy note: Government funding of skills

This note aims to set out the main high-level issues which need to be considered when designing systems for government funding of skills.

Policy note: Distance and e-learning in TVET

This note provides information on distance/e-learning, and uses key research findings to draw attention to the issues that policymakers may wish to consider before incorporating these technologies in the delivery of technical and vocational...

Priority ILO work areas in skills development in Indonesia 2020-2021

As skills help people access decent work and productive employment, the ILO supports the government of Indonesia and social partners to improve the country’s skills development systems.

Brief

Doing more business and less aid: The journey of a market system development project in Afghanistan

TRIANGLE in ASEAN

More Choices, More Power: Opportunities for Women’s Empowerment in Labour Migration from Viet Nam

The research in this report provides an analysis of the nexus of labour migration and women’s empowerment in Viet Nam. It assesses how the experiences and outcomes of migration influence and are influenced by local conditions.