Tools and Services
2013
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Publication
Gender dimensions of national employment policies: A 24 country study
18 November 2013
EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 152
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Publication
The Social Dimensions of Free Trade Agreements
06 November 2013
The report provides a comprehensive review of all existing trade agreements that include social provisions and discusses impacts for enterprises and workers.It also helps assess the challenges for arising from the multiplication of trade agreements that include different social provisions.
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Publication
Labour Administration in Uncertain Times: Policy, Practice and Institutions
01 November 2013
The 2008 financial crisis marked the beginning of a prolonged and ongoing period of extreme economic turbulence that has created multiple challenges for both governments and national systems of labour administration. Difficult economic conditions are encouraging a re-evaluation of established policies and institutions in the areas of labour, employment, social protection and industrial relations.
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Good practices
Business and the fight against child labour - Experience from India, Brazil and South Africa
25 October 2013
A new report on the efforts of businesses in three countries in the global South to eliminate child labour, in their operations, supply chains and wider communities.
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Guidelines
Equal Pay - An introductory guide
04 October 2013
Ensuring that the work done by women and men is valued fairly and ending pay discrimination is essential to achieving gender equality. However, pay inequality continues to persist and gender pay gaps in some instances have stagnated or even increased.
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Publication
Measuring informality: A statistical manual on the informal sector and informal employment
04 October 2013
This manual is intended for national statistical offices and other producers of statistics planning programmes to produce statistics on the informal sector and informal employment. The manual provides technical guidance on implementing international standards, presenting alternative measurement methodologies along with examples based on national experience, and includes guidelines for the dissemination of statistics on the informal sector and informal employment.
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Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 42
The visible face of women's invisible labour, Domestic workers in Turkey
03 October 2013
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ILO Research paper No. 8
Understanding the drivers of the youth labour market in Kenya
30 September 2013
This paper examines the macroeconomic and individual elements affecting youth unemployment and inactivity in Kenya with a view to discussing the elements that are important for the youth labour market challenges.
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International Migration Papers No. 118
Promoting integration for migrant domestic workers in Europe: A synthesis of Belgium, France, Italy and Spain
20 September 2013
This report is based on the findings of research conducted in Belgium, France, Italy and Spain, as part of project on “integration of migrant domestic workers in Europe”, implemented by the ILO and its partners with the financial support of the European Union.
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Publication
Labour inspection and undeclared work in the EU
21 August 2013
The purpose of this study is to consider the role that national labour inspection systems in the EU have as part of a strategic policy response to undeclared work. It was coordinated by the ILO’s Labour Administration and Inspection Programme (LAB/ADMIN) in cooperation with the European Commission’s Labour Law Unit.