Publications on non-standard forms of employment

  1. Publication

    Non-standard employment around the world: Understanding challenges, shaping prospects [Key findings]

    14 November 2016

    The report analyses the incidence and trends of NSFE globally and explores the reasons behind this phenomenon, including changes in the world of work brought about by globalization and social change, shifting organizational practices among companies, and changes and gaps in the regulation of work. It also includes a series of policy recommendations.

  2. Publication

    Non-standard employment around the world: Understanding challenges, shaping prospects [Overview]

    14 November 2016

    The report analyses the incidence and trends of NSFE globally and explores the reasons behind this phenomenon, including changes in the world of work brought about by globalization and social change, shifting organizational practices among companies, and changes and gaps in the regulation of work. It also includes a series of policy recommendations.

  3. Briefing note

    No.1 Technological changes and work in the future: Making technology work for all

    03 November 2016

    This note analyses the effects of technological changes on the quantity and quality of jobs and discusses policy challenges in developing a skilled workforce, avoiding job polarization and assuring equal distribution of productivity gains.

  4. Briefing note

    No.3 A challenging future for the employment relationship: Time for affirmation or alternatives

    03 November 2016

    This note discusses the evolution of the employment relationship, the stresses posed by the changing organization of work, the prognosis for fundamental alteration of the relationship, and regulatory challenges in providing adequate protection to workers in evolving employment relationships.

  5. Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 77

    Firms' demand for temporary labour in developing countries: Necessity or strategy?

    21 June 2016

  6. Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 75

    Non-standard forms of employment in Latin America: Prevalence, characteristics and impacts on wages

    31 May 2016

  7. Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 74

    Income security in the on-demand economy: Findings and policy lessons from a survey of crowdworkers

    01 May 2016

  8. Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 70

    Non-standard forms of employment in Uganda and Ghana

    29 March 2016

  9. Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 71

    The rise of the "just-in-time workforce": On-demand work, crowdwork and labour protection in the "gig-economy"

    14 January 2016

  10. Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 67

    The effects of non-standard forms of employment on worker health and safety

    14 January 2016