Major publications
Book
The future of diversity
This book offers new perspectives on the concept of diversity and the role diversity can play in the future world of work.
Report
Making decent work a reality for domestic workers: Progress and prospects ten years after the adoption of the Domestic Workers Convention,...
This report assesses the working conditions of domestic workers ten years after the adoption of Domestic Workers Convention in 2011. It highlights the progress made over a decade, as well as the remaining legal and implementation gaps, and provides...
Report
Child Labour: Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward
Published for the first time jointly by the ILO and UNICEF, as co-custodians of Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the report Child Labour: 2020 global estimates, trends and the road forward takes stock of where we stand in the global...
Working from home: From invisibility to decent work
With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many in the world’s workforce have shifted to homeworking, thereby joining the hundreds of millions of workers who have already been working from home for decades.
First edition
Global Employment Policy Review 2020: Employment Policies for Inclusive Structural Transformation
The Global Employment Policy Review (GEPR) examines trends in employment policies while at the same time presenting new and innovative solutions to the challenges of policy design and implementation. In this first edition, the report focuses on the...
Report
Global Employment Trends for Youth 2020: Technology and the future of jobs
Incorporating the most recent labour market information available, this report sets out the youth labour market situation around the world.
Skills and jobs mismatches in low- and middle-income countries
Report
Working on a warmer planet: The effect of heat stress on productivity and decent work
Report
Working conditions in a global perspective
This report provides a comparative analysis of job quality covering approximately 1.2 billion of the world’s workers in the EU28, China, the Republic of Korea, Turkey, the United States (US), Spanish-speaking Central America (Costa Rica, El...
Report
A quantum leap for gender equality: For a better future of work for all
This report is the culmination of the extensive and often ground-breaking work undertaken in the ILO’s Women at Work Centenary Initiative. It is closely aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Ending forced labour by 2030: A review of policies and programmes
The latest Global Estimates indicate that 25 million people are in forced labour globally. How can the world community get firmly on track toward eliminating forced labour? The International Labour Organization report Ending forced labour by 2030: A...
Report
ILO Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers – Results and Methodology
This report maps the current state of labour migration and the key characteristics of migrant workers in the world today.
Report
Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work
This report takes a comprehensive look at unpaid and paid care work and its relationship with the changing world of work. A key focus is the persistent gender inequalities in households and the labour market, which are inextricably linked with care...
The impact of HIV and AIDS on the world of work: Global estimates
Bringing together health data, in particular HIV prevalence data, with labour force, economic and demographic data, the report sets out social and economic impacts on workers and their households for 2005, 2010 and 2015, as well as projections for...
Book
Industrial relations in emerging economies: The quest for inclusive development
This work examines industrial and employment relations in the emerging economies of Brazil, China, India, South Africa and Turkey while assessing the contribution of industrial relations to inclusive development.
Book
Regulating for equitable and job-rich growth
This book offers a critical reflection on the operation and effects of labour regulation. It articulates the broad goals and extensive potential for it to contribute to inclusive development, while also considering the limits of some areas of...
Report
Global Employment Trends for Youth 2017: Paths to a better working future
This report sets out the youth labour market situation around the world and shows where progress has or has not been made.
Rising to the youth employment challenge: New evidence on key policy issues
This book brings together contributions from the ILO’s Youth Employment Programme detailing policies that enable young people to find decent work.
ILO/WTO joint publication
Investing in skills for inclusive trade
Featuring results from the ILO's Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED) programme, this report shows that appropriate skills development policies are key to helping firms participate in trade, and also to helping workers find good jobs.
Labour regulation and development: Socio-legal perspectives