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Indicator description: International labour migration statistics

Introduction The ILOSTAT database on International Labour Migration Statistics (ILMS) is a set of indicators describing the number and profile of international migrant workers, their situation in the labour market and employment patterns, their main origin and destination countries and the magnitude of inward and outward migration flows. Concepts and definitions According the ILO Guidelines …

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Will COVID-19 impair the availability and quality of labour statistics?

By Kieran Walsh / April 16, 2020 October 6, 2020 / COVID-19, LFS, methods

The pandemic is radically impacting our lives. But what about the statistics used to assess those impacts? Without timely and accurate information, we will not act through adequate and informed policies. Though numbers should focus on the health of the population, we also need to understand what is happening in the domain of labour statistics. That is, how is COVID-19 affecting our working lives? What is less obvious, however, is that the pandemic is also affecting our ability to compile such statistics.

COVID-19 impact on labour market statistics

COVID-19 impact on the collection of labour market statistics Table of Contents ILO support Through the process of developing this note, the ILO has been in close contact with countries and fully recognises the many difficult challenges being faced. The ILO is committed to maintaining this close contact and is ready to provide support, including …

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Indicator description: Volunteer work

Introduction Volunteer work covers a wide range of unpaid activities performed by individuals to help others, to contribute to their communities, the environment, and to support different organizations. Available national data shows that people in all regions and from a wide range of social, cultural and economic backgrounds engage in volunteer work. Volunteer work helps …

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Indicator description: Household type

Introduction The ILO and UN-Women joined forces to produce a new international database with novel indicators which allow us to study the impact of family life on labour market participation. In particular, the data show how the labour force participation of women and men aged 25 to 54 varies according to whether they live alone, …

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Measuring job quality: difficult but necessary

By Rosina Gammarano / January 27, 2020 May 13, 2020 / job quality, working time, wages, social protection, employment

The quality of our job determines to a great extent our well-being and life quality, but measuring it requires taking into account numerous aspects of our working conditions.

Glossary

Glossary of statistical terms

Work and employment are not synonyms

By Rosina Gammarano / October 29, 2019 July 17, 2020 / forms of work, methods, employment

Work and employment may be used indistinctly in everyday language, but for the labour market they mean very different things. Employment is a very specific form of work. Other forms of work include own-use production work, volunteer work and unpaid trainee work.

Country groupings

Country groupings by ILO region and WB income group

Indicator description: Unemployment rate

Introduction The unemployment rate is probably the best-known labour market measure and certainly one of the most widely quoted by media in many countries. The unemployment rate is a useful measure of the underutilization of the labour supply. It reflects the inability of an economy to generate employment for those persons who want to work …

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