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Why are unemployment individual savings accounts not an adequate and equitable solution to unemployment protection?

ILO brief - Social Protection Spotlight

Why are unemployment individual savings accounts not an adequate and equitable solution to unemployment protection?

This policy brief highlights the limitations of Unemployment Individual Savings Accounts (UISA), emphasizing that they are not an adequate and equitable solution to unemployment protection. It underscores the need for risk pooling and collective...

Making social protection work for gender equality: What does it look like? How do we get there?
Making social protection work for gender equality

ILO brief - Social Protection Spotlight

Making social protection work for gender equality: What does it look like? How do we get there?

This brief outlines the perspective and approach of the ILO’s Universal Social Protection Department to enhancing the gender-responsiveness of social protection policies, anchored in international social security standards and guided by a life-cycle...

Social justice and women’s work in a post-conflict context: Understanding the role of women in social reproduction and its effect on their...

Research Brief

Social justice and women’s work in a post-conflict context: Understanding the role of women in social reproduction and its effect on their...

This brief explores how the social reproduction roles of women in post-conflict settings impact their employment, productivity, and social justice, emphasizing the need for institutional and policy interventions to address gender inequalities and...

Navigating the future: Skills and jobs in the green and digital transitions
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Research Brief

Navigating the future: Skills and jobs in the green and digital transitions

This brief presents scenario-based insights on employment creation in green and digital transitions.

Carbon markets and their implications for a just transition for all

Research Brief

Carbon markets and their implications for a just transition for all

This brief explores the potential of carbon markets to promote a just transition towards a low-carbon economy.

Closing the financing gap for universal social protection

ILO brief - Social Protection Spotlight

Closing the financing gap for universal social protection

This brief summarizes information about financing gaps preventing the achievement of universal social protection, and provides recommendations, including the establishment of targets on expanding social protection coverage, for consideration in the...

The impact of care responsibilities on women’s labour force participation
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Statistical Brief

The impact of care responsibilities on women’s labour force participation

Care responsibilities are excluding and holding back millions of women worldwide from taking paid employment, and, with climate and demographic changes on course to increase the demand for care, measures to support the care economy are urgently...

Statistics on Labour Migration in Tanzania

Policy Brief

Statistics on Labour Migration in Tanzania

This policy brief highlights the importance of labour migration statistics for data-driven decision-making and improved migration governance. It discusses Tanzania’s role as both a source and destination country for migrants, the challenges faced by...

Quick facts - Independent high-level evaluation of the ILO strategies and approaches for the development and use of labour statistics,...
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Quick facts - Independent high-level evaluation of the ILO strategies and approaches for the development and use of labour statistics,...

Rethinking Production Processes with AI and avoiding the Innovator’s Dilemma
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Research Brief

Rethinking Production Processes with AI and avoiding the Innovator’s Dilemma

This brief explores the challenges traditional companies face in fully harnessing the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Drawing parallels with historical shifts like the assembly line, the brief argues that AI adoption...

Employment challenges and policies in ASEAN
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Research brief

Employment challenges and policies in ASEAN

This research brief provides a comprehensive analysis of employment challenges in South-East Asia to identify key policy recommendations to address these issues. The findings will inform the ILO ProSSCE-ASEAN project’s initiatives and activities to...

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

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

Making women migrant workers count: Sex disaggregation of labour migration statistics in ASEAN
Making women migrant workers count: Sex disaggregation of labour migration statistics in ASEAN

Brief on labour migration statistics

Making women migrant workers count: Sex disaggregation of labour migration statistics in ASEAN

This brief provides an overview of sex-disaggregated international labour migration statistics (ILMS) in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region.

Statistical profile of the wholesale and retail trade sector

Statistical brief

Statistical profile of the wholesale and retail trade sector

The role of active labour market policies for a just transition
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Active Labour Market Policies

The role of active labour market policies for a just transition

This policy brief is part of the ILO Just Transition Policy Briefs series and is intended to present the linkages between just transition and the role of active labour market policies, providing stakeholders with information and recommendations for...

ILO PROSPECTS at a glance

Country factsheets

ILO PROSPECTS at a glance

The country factsheets provide an overview of the key interventions and results of PROSPECTS programme implementation.

Global Research Agenda: Building the evidence base for informed policy action against child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking

Global Research Agenda: Building the evidence base for informed policy action against child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking

Child labour statistical profile: Arab States

Child labour statistical profile: Arab States

This profile provides statistics on child labour prevalence and characteristics for the Arab States region.

Child labour statistical profile: Eastern and South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific Islands

Child labour statistical profile: Eastern and South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific Islands

This profile provides statistics on child labour prevalence and characteristics in the region of Eastern and South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific Islands.