Factsheets and briefs
2022
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A review of country data
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on informality: Has informal employment increased or decreased?
21 March 2022
2021
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Methodological note
Diagnosis of informality
20 December 2021
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Publication
Purchasing practices and working conditions in global supply chains: Results from field work in Bangladesh, China, India, South Africa and Turkey
01 October 2021
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Factsheet
Global Wage Report 2020-21: Factsheet for the European Union
21 May 2021
This factsheet provides key findings for the European Union from the ILO flagship Global Wage Report 2020-21
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Brief
From potential to practice: Preliminary findings on the numbers of workers working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic
31 March 2021
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WIEGO Statistic Brief no. 27
Home-based Workers in the World: A Statistical Profile
19 February 2021
Globally, 260 million women and men are employed in home-based work, including 35 million in developed countries.
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Theory of Change
Transition from the informal to the formal economy - Theory of change
29 January 2021
This umbrella theory of change provides the main pathways for the transition to formality of workers and enterprises. It is a general framework that can inform the development of theories of change focused on a specific sector, occupational groups, forms of informality or policy areas.
2020
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Questions & answers
The role of social dialogue and the social partners in addressing the consequences of COVID-19 in the informal economy
29 October 2020
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Brief
Employers and workers negotiating measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, protect livelihoods and support recovery: A review of practice
03 July 2020
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Brief
Employment Protection throughout the World: A roundup of a decade of reforms (2009-2019)
01 July 2020
Key points: - Since 2009, the ILO has been monitoring legal changes in employment protection for over a hundred countries, recording the information in the ILO EPLex database. - Using these data, this brief shows that the past decade was rich in reforms of employment protection in case of individual dismissals. Some countries decreased their level of employment protection, while others increased it. - Overall, the world has moved to a more uniform level of employment protection. - Despite this, there remains a variety of legal approaches for achieving such seemingly similar levels of protection.
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Factsheet
Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on loss of jobs and hours among domestic workers
15 June 2020
The ILO estimates that, in the early stages of the pandemic, on 15 March 2020, 49.3% of domestic workers were significantly impacted. This figure peaked at 73.7% on 15 May, before reducing to 72.3% on 4 June.
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Factsheet
Temporary Wage Subsidies: Country examples
22 May 2020
This Appendix complements the ILO Factsheet on "Temporary Wage Subsidies". It offers country examples of temporary wage subsidies implemented during the Covid-19 crisis.
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Factsheet
Temporary Wage Subsidies
22 May 2020
This factsheet provides an overview of temporary wage subsidies implemented during the Covid-19 crisis
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Factsheet
Protection of workers' wage claims in enterprise insolvency
21 May 2020
This factsheet provides an international overview of approaches taken to address the protection of workers' wages claims in the event of enterprise insolvency/bankruptcy.
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Policy Brief
Working from Home: Estimating the worldwide potential
07 May 2020
Staying in one’s job but performing work remotely is an excellent strategy for mitigating job losses and allowing for the continuation of many of our economies’ functions, but also for keeping the population safe. The objective of this brief is to estimate the potential share of workers across the different regions of the world who could perform their activities from home, if needed, as well as to discuss some of the policy issues associated with working from home.
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Brief
COVID-19 crisis and the informal economy: Immediate responses and policy challenges
05 May 2020
This policy brief focuses on the immediate responses that countries can take to address the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on the informal economy at its early stages, while pointing to areas that will need sustained investment in the future in order to ensure well-being and decent work for workers and economic undertakings in the informal economy. This brief will be followed by another on mid- to long-term responses, once the rapid propagation phase of the virus has passed.
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Factsheet
Beyond contagion or starvation: Giving domestic workers another way forward
05 May 2020
In the wake of COVID-19, governments around the world have called on people to take one most important action: to stay home. But for many workers, staying home has meant losing their jobs, or worse still, losing their livelihoods.
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Factsheet
Impact of lockdown measures on the informal economy - A summary
05 May 2020
As of April 2020, it is estimated that almost 1.6 billion informal economy workers are significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a 60 per cent decline in their earnings.
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Brief
Impact of lockdown measures on the informal economy
05 May 2020
As of April 2020, it is estimated that almost 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy have been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to an estimated decline in their earnings of 60 per cent.
2019
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Issue Brief no. 5 - Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining
Negotiating for decent working time - a review of practice
10 December 2019
This Issue Brief gives an overview of the regulation of working time through collective agreements in different regions of the world and outlines innovative solutions by the bargaining partners. It presents practices from various countries, which can advance a human-centered approach to the regulation of working time through collective bargaining.