Inside West Africa’s youth labour market: Informality, inequality and missed opportunities
Young people in West African Economic and Monetary Union countries face persistent barriers to decent work, with widespread informality and deep inequalities limiting labour market opportunities.
Labour migration in ASEAN: Analysis from the International Labour Migration Statistics Database in ASEAN
This report is the third in the series of ILMS analytical reports produced by the ILO’s TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme. The report serves to showcase the data contained within the ASEAN ILMS Database and to illustrate labour migration trends and characteristics across the ASEAN region.
Child Labour Observatory
The Child Labour Observatory (CLO) is a “one-stop shop” for data, legislation, policies and evidence of progress in the elimination of child labour.
Decent work reality check: Informality is everywhere
Granular data confirm that informality is a systemic feature of labour markets across sectors and is strongly associated with employment vulnerability.
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Unpacking informality: A multidimensional policy decomposition
This working paper presents a practical additive decomposition of informal employment, showing where policy action can reduce it. Applied to the case of Colombia, it identifies the main factors behind recent declines in informality.
Informal volunteering: trends and characteristics
The report focuses on informal volunteering, the most widespread but least well understood form of volunteer work. It aims to address major evidence gaps by analysing who engages in informal volunteering, how, and under what conditions across diverse country contexts.
The world of work and the 2030 Agenda: a ten-year review
When the world adopted the Sustainable Development Goals a decade ago, it pledged to achieve each one of them by 2030. With less than five years left, ILO data shows that much more is needed if we are to fulfil that promise.
Digital labour platforms: Number of platforms and workers
This brief examines the growth of digital labour platforms and provides updated estimates on the number of active platforms and workers engaged through them. It highlights persistent measurement gaps and underscores the need for internationally agreed statistical standards to improve comparability and inform policy.
ILO global estimates on international migrants in the labour force: Figures at a glance
See the headline results from the latest edition of the ILO modelled estimates for a quick overview of global and regional findings.