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Global Employment Trends for Youth 2024

Employment trends for youth in the Americas

This regional brief highlights the key findings of the 12th edition of the Global Employment Trends for Youth in the Americas.

Global Employment Trends for Youth 2024

Employment trends for youth in Asia and the Pacific

This brief highlights the key findings of the 12th edition of the Global Employment Trends for Youth in Asia and the Pacific.

Decent work, brighter futures

Global Employment Trends for Youth 2024

This report represents the 20th anniversary publication of the ILO’s Global Employment Trends for Youth (hereafter “GET for Youth”). As an anniversary edition, this GET for Youth looks back on what has been achieved since the dawn of the...

Research Brief

Revealing New Skills Trends in Emerging Economies: The Power of Online Data and NLP techniques

This brief relies on an innovative approach that uses big data from online job boards and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract and analyze transferable skills from online vacancies and applicants' data. It demonstrates how this...

G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting, Fortaleza, Brazil

Youth at Work in G20 countries: Progress and policy action in 2023

This report prepared jointly by the ILO and the OECD and presented at the G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting under Brazil's presidency gives an overview of progress made by G20 countries towards achieving the Antalya target, and policy...

Employment Working Group

Women at Work in G20 countries: Progress and policy action in 2023

This report prepared jointly by the ILO and the OECD and presented at the G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting under Brazil's presidency gives an overview of progress made by G20 countries towards achieving the Brisbane target, and policy...

Forced labour in commercial fishing

This factsheet provides background information on the fishing industry and some of the inherent challenges of work in fishing. It aims to help professionals interested in this issue raise their understanding on the specific decent work deficits in...

Reporting forced labour in commercial fishing

This factsheet is intended to support journalists and communicators interested in developing stories addressing decent work deficits in the commercial fishing industry and the broader value chain.

Publication

Workers' organizations and development cooperation - A Workers’ guide to effective participation in ILO development cooperation

This guide is intended as a resource to help workers' organizations become centrally involved in the co-creation of ILO development cooperation interventions, to ensure that workers benefit from the programmes and projects. It provides accessible...

ILO Brief

An analysis of the mid-term review of the National Social Protection Strategy in Lao People’s Democratic Republic

This ILO Brief summarises the key findings and recommendations from the “Report of the Mid-Term Review of the National Social Protection Strategy in Lao People's Democratic Republic”.

Research Brief

Harnessing nighttime lights data to measure the economic and employment effects of road infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa

The ILO/EU’s STRENGTHEN2 project, which is demonstrating how to leverage employment impact assessments (EmpIAs) for the creation of more and better jobs in sub-Saharan Africa, has been using NTL data to assess the impact of infrastructure...

Technical Paper

Assessment and mapping of cash transfer payment modalities and frequencies in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

This technical paper provides practical guidance for the Ministry of Social Development, the Ministry of Finance and the European Union on strengthening the delivery of social assistance schemes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. It focuses on...

Decent Work Country Programme Montenegro 2024-2027

Policy Brief

Recommendation No. 208 on Quality Apprenticeships: What Role for Trade Unions?

This Policy Brief is designed to inform and guide workers’ organisations on questions surrounding apprenticeships by briefly introducing them to ILO Recommendation 208 on Quality Apprenticeships (R208), adopted by the International Labour Conference...

ILO Working Paper 122

What role can health mutuals and community-based health insurance play in social health protection systems?

Despite a wealth of literature on health mutuals and Community Based Health Insurances (CBHI), little is known about the practical methods used to integrate them into national social health protection architectures. This working paper explores...

Research Brief

Desk review on the role of employers’ organizations in facilitating the transition to formality

This research brief aims to examine the function of employers' organizations in aiding the transition towards formality. It seeks to pinpoint strategies, tools, and initiatives used by similar organizations in contexts akin to Cambodia. Furthermore,...

Gender mainstreaming into Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Lebanon

A study to map current initiatives and assess practices, achievements and gaps in gender equality and gender mainstreaming in skills/TVET systems

Factsheet

Decent work in the platform economy: law and practice update

Joint ILO–IMO meeting to adopt guidelines for Medical Examination of Fishers/Fishing Vessel Personnel - Record of proceedings

ILO Working Paper 121 - Joint publication ILO-World Bank

Buffer or Bottleneck? Employment Exposure to Generative AI and the Digital Divide in Latin America

In this new paper from the International Labour Organization and the World Bank Group, researchers found that Generative AI could have transformative effects on jobs and livelihoods in Latin America and the Caribbean. Nonetheless, gaps in digital...