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Labour migration

Distribution of migrant domestic workers by broad region, 2013 (female)

Labour migration
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Labour migration

In 2017, migrant workers accounted for approximately 59 per cent of the world’s international migrant population (ILO, 2018). Crossing national borders to work is one of the key motivations behind...

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Measuring International Labour Mobility
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ILO guidelines
Guidelines concerning statistics of international labour migration

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International Labour Migration Statistics - A guide for policymakers and statistics organizations in the Pacific

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Guide on developing an international labour migration statistics database in ASEAN

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Report on the Methodology, Organization and Results of a Modular Sample Survey on Labour Migration in Ukraine

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