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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 2019, there were 169 million international migrant workers in the world and they constituted 4.9 per cent of the global labour force in the destination countries (ILO, 2021). These international...

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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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