Statistics

Non-standard and informal employment in Italy

Paper for the WIEGO meeting on “Measuring Informal Employment in Developed Countries” 31 October-1 November 2008, Harvard University

The World’s Women 2010: Trends and Statistics

The World’s Women 2010: Trends and Statistics released on October 20th by the United Nations highlights the latest data documenting...

World of Work Report 2012 ‘Better Jobs for a Better Economy’

The new study examines the performance of different countries since the start of the global crisis through the prism of the quantity and...

The World’s Women 2000: Trends and Statistics

Informality, Returns to Education and Labour Market Integration in China-The Indian Journal of Labour Economics

This study analyses data from household surveys in six large Chinese cities in 2010 to describe the nature of informal employment and estimate...

Contingent Workforce: Size, Characteristics, Earnings and Benefits

Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Brief

This publication is a brief version of the 3rd edition of Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture (ILO 2018). 

Measurement of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment: Current International Standards and Issues in their Application

How Does Decentralized Minimum Wage Setting Affect Employment and Informality? The Case of Indonesia

Measuring Informal Employment in South Africa: The New Quarterly Labour Force Survey

This briefing note discusses how the changes introduced in the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) will affect