Publications on Wages
July 2022
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ILO Working paper 72
Why should we integrate income and employment support? A conceptual and empirical investigation
18 July 2022
This paper conceptualizes, for the first time, the implementation of policy approaches that integrate active labour market policies within income support schemes, focusing on low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). We develop a conceptual framework to understand how integrated policies can address labour market challenges, exploring the theoretical effects they exert on selected labour market and social dimensions. We compare this to the empirical literature, which does not always find that policies are effective. To reconcile this discrepancy, we investigate the design and implementation of integrated approaches across LMIC and identify factors which contribute to their effectiveness.
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Executive Summary
The gender pay gap in the health and care sector: A global analysis in the time of COVID-19
13 July 2022
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Report
The gender pay gap in the health and care sector: A global analysis in the time of COVID-19
13 July 2022
June 2022
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Decent Work in Garment Supply Chains Asia
Employment, wages and productivity in the Asian garment sector: Taking stock of recent trends
24 June 2022
The report takes stock of employment, wages and productivity in the Asian garment sector by exploring data and policy insights to highlight trends, patterns and ways forward for a better future of work. By utilising updated data insights, the report outlines persisting decent work deficits as the garment sector evolves, and the prioritised support needed to overcome such challenges.
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ILO Working paper 70
A global analysis of worker protest in digital labour platforms
21 June 2022
This paper presents findings from the Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest, a database of platform worker protest events around the world in four platform sectors: ride-hailing, food delivery, courier services and grocery delivery for the period January 2017 to July 2020. The findings show that the single most important cause of platform worker protest is pay, followed by employment status, and health and safety.
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Paper
Pay transparency legislation: Implications for employers' and workers' organizations
21 June 2022
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Publication
Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean (Number 26): Real wages during the pandemic: trends and challenges
16 June 2022
This edition of the Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean report, jointly prepared twice-yearly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) analyses the effects of and recovery from the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the region’s labor markets in 2021, spotlighting the evolution of real wages.
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Report
Gender Pay Gap in Portugal
14 June 2022
May 2022
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ILO Working paper 65
Skills and employment transitions in Brazil
31 May 2022
This paper analyses employment transitions and workers’ skills in Brazil between 2003 to 2018, developing a novel procedure to derive a measure of occupational distance and internationally comparable skill measures from occupations’ task descriptions. Against a number of outcomes, workers using non-routine cognitive skills are found to perform better, while routine and non-routine manual workers are worse off in the labour market. Overall, there have been signs of routine-biased technological change and employment polarization since the 2014 Brazilian economic crisis.
February 2022
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Publication
Collective bargaining outcomes on gender equality in France
28 February 2022