Publications
2023
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Report
Women and men in the informal economy: A statistical update
07 March 2023
This report provides a snapshot of the situation in 2019 and trends in selected countries since 2020. It does not intend to provide an in-depth analysis of trends and factors of informality. Instead, the primary objective of this publication is to provide a concise update, both globally and by region, of data on the extent of informal employment, the categories of workers most exposed to informality and the characteristics of those currently in informal employment and their working conditions compared to their counterparts in formal employment.
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Publication
Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World
06 January 2023
Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World provides a comprehensive review of both main aspects of working time – working hours and working time arrangements (also called work schedules) – and their effects on workers' work-life balance.
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ILO Working paper 86
Negotiations by workers in the informal economy (ILO WP 86)
04 January 2023
This paper provides empirical evidence from Africa, Asia and the Americas on negotiations and collective bargaining by workers in the informal economy.
2022
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Publication
Global Wage Report 2022-23: The impact of inflation and COVID-19 on wages and purchasing power
30 November 2022
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ILO Working paper 80
Realizing the opportunities of the platform economy through freedom of association and collective bargaining (ILO WP 80)
30 September 2022
This study provides empirical evidence from different regions of the world to identify avenues for platform economy workers to access freedom of association and collective bargaining.
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Joint report - Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, ILO and IDOS
A majority working in the shadows: A six-country opinion survey on informal labour in sub-Saharan Africa
15 September 2022
Most workers in sub-Saharan Africa are informally employed, which often leaves them without access to health care and social protection.
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Report
Gender Pay Gap in Portugal
14 June 2022
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ILO Working paper 62
Protection of workers’ personal data: General principles (ILO WP 62)
05 May 2022
This working paper gives an overview of legal standards related to personal data protection. It explores trends, principles and good practices and brings them in relation to the world of work.
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Publication
The case of ten companies in the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg
28 February 2022
2021
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Book
The new world of work: Challenges and opportunities for social partners and labour institutions
31 December 2021
This book examines social dialogue and the role of social partners in the governance of the world of work in 34 European countries.
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ILO Working paper 27
Platform work and the employment relationship (ILO WP 27)
31 March 2021
This working paper analyses national and supranational case law and legislation about the employment status of platform workers. It does so by referring to the ILO Employment Relationship Recommendation, 2006 (No. 198). It finds that this Recommendation provides for a valuable compass to navigate the issues that emerge from the analysis of the existing case law and legislation about platform work.
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ILO Working paper 25
Homeworking in the Philippines: Bad job ? Good job ?
09 March 2021
This report focuses on two categories of homeworkers in the Philippines: industrial homeworkers, who assemble or fabricate goods for factories, retailers or their agents under subcontracting arrangements; and online workers, who render services to their clients or employers via telecommunications technologies and digital platforms.
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ILO Working paper 24
Online digital labour platforms in China (ILO WP 24)
02 February 2021
This paper summarizes the results of an ILO survey, conducted in 2019, of workers’ characteristics and working conditions on three major digital labour platforms in China.
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ILO Working paper 22
Home-based work and homework in Ghana: An exploration
22 January 2021
This research report explores the nature and character of home-based work and the more narrow concept of homework in Ghana.
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Publication
Working from home: From invisibility to decent work [Full report]
13 January 2021
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.
2020
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ILO Working paper 21
Home bounded - Global outreach: Home-based workers in Turkey
18 December 2020
This report focuses on industrial home-based pieceworkers and IT-enabled remote workers, who are commonly referred to in Turkey as “freelancers”.
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ILO Working Paper 4
The regulation of collective dismissals: Economic rationale and legal practice
19 May 2020
This paper offers a legal and an economic analysis of collective dismissals procedures.
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Guidelines
Rapid assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on enterprises and workers in the informal economy in developing and emerging countries
30 April 2020
Identifying the needs and priorities of the groups in the informal economy that are the most vulnerable to the COVID-19 crisis is essential to develop adequate policy responses. These guidelines provide a step by step approach to get this knowledge quickly by using methods of collecting information remotely, without interpersonal contact.
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Transition to formality
Transition to Formality and Structural Transformation: Challenges and Policy options
17 March 2020
The book examines “new forms of informality” in developed and developing countries, and how our policies can be improved to respond to new evolving realities.
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A compendium of practice
Interactions between Workers’ Organizations and Workers in the Informal Economy: A Compendium of Practice
30 January 2020
A compilation of concrete examples, drawn from around the world, showing how trade unions have sought to reach out to workers in the informal economy to reduce the decent work deficits they face and support their transition to formality.