Briefs
ILO-UNV Joint publication
Volunteering, unpaid care work and gender in lower-income countries
In recognition of the interactions and similarities between volunteering and unpaid care work, this research paper released as part of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) partnership on the...
Research Brief
Developing a New Method to Uncover Skills Trends in Emerging Economies Using Online Data and NLP techniques
This research brief outlines a novel methodology using online big data and natural language processing (NLP) to analyze transferable skills trends across diverse sectors and countries, offering insights into skills demand, supply, mismatches, and...
Research Brief
A new chapter for the ILO’s textual assets: Applying Generative AI to Labour Force Survey questionnaires
This brief highlights the use of Generative AI to create a database of Labour Force Survey questions, combining AI vision capabilities and human verification to ensure accurate data extraction. It introduces tools for digitization, semantic search,...
ILO brief - Social Protection Spotlight
Why are unemployment individual savings accounts not an adequate and equitable solution to unemployment protection?
ILO brief - Social Protection Spotlight
Making social protection work for gender equality: What does it look like? How do we get there?
This brief outlines the perspective and approach of the ILO’s Universal Social Protection Department to enhancing the gender-responsiveness of social protection policies, anchored in international social security standards and guided by a life-cycle...
Research Brief
Social justice and women’s work in a post-conflict context: Understanding the role of women in social reproduction and its effect on their...
This brief explores how the social reproduction roles of women in post-conflict settings impact their employment, productivity, and social justice, emphasizing the need for institutional and policy interventions to address gender inequalities and...
Research Brief
Navigating the future: Skills and jobs in the green and digital transitions
This brief presents scenario-based insights on employment creation in green and digital transitions.
Research Brief
Carbon markets and their implications for a just transition for all
This brief explores the potential of carbon markets to promote a just transition towards a low-carbon economy.
ILO brief - Social Protection Spotlight
Closing the financing gap for universal social protection
This brief summarizes information about financing gaps preventing the achievement of universal social protection, and provides recommendations, including the establishment of targets on expanding social protection coverage, for consideration in the...
Policy Brief
Statistics on Labour Migration in Tanzania
This policy brief highlights the importance of labour migration statistics for data-driven decision-making and improved migration governance. It discusses Tanzania’s role as both a source and destination country for migrants, the challenges faced by...
Statistical Brief
The impact of care responsibilities on women’s labour force participation
Care responsibilities are excluding and holding back millions of women worldwide from taking paid employment, and, with climate and demographic changes on course to increase the demand for care, measures to support the care economy are urgently...
Research Brief
Rethinking Production Processes with AI and avoiding the Innovator’s Dilemma
Research brief
Employment challenges and policies in ASEAN
Research Brief
Revealing New Skills Trends in Emerging Economies: The Power of Online Data and NLP techniques
This brief relies on an innovative approach that uses big data from online job boards and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract and analyze transferable skills from online vacancies and applicants' data. It demonstrates how this...
Research Brief
Harnessing nighttime lights data to measure the economic and employment effects of road infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa
Brief on labour migration statistics
Making women migrant workers count: Sex disaggregation of labour migration statistics in ASEAN
This brief provides an overview of sex-disaggregated international labour migration statistics (ILMS) in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region.
Active Labour Market Policies
The role of active labour market policies for a just transition
This policy brief is part of the ILO Just Transition Policy Briefs series and is intended to present the linkages between just transition and the role of active labour market policies, providing stakeholders with information and recommendations for...
Country factsheets
ILO PROSPECTS at a glance
The country factsheets provide an overview of the key interventions and results of PROSPECTS programme implementation.
Global Research Agenda: Building the evidence base for informed policy action against child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking
Child labour statistical profile: Arab States
This profile provides statistics on child labour prevalence and characteristics for the Arab States region.