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Regional Employment Patterns from a Decent Work Perspective: Implications and Strategic Responses

Corresponding Author : md. Mamin Ullah (mamin83@hotmail.com)

Keywords : Decent Work, Employment, regional employment patterns, ILO

Abstract :

With the growing concern pertaining to work and workers' rights around the world, the International Labor Organization (ILO) introduced the "decent work" concept in 1999. Since then, many debates and discussions have taken place concerning the meaning of the notion of decent work and its related dimensions, especially its universal acceptability. Furthermore, since the United Nations (UN) incorporated this concept into the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the ILO's decent work agenda has piqued the interest of researchers, academics, policymakers, and labor economists. After 20 years of inception, it has therefore become a field of interest to explore the current status of decent work in different parts of the globe. Following the principles of policy research to a large extent, this paper aims to make a critical analysis of regional employment patterns from a decent work perspective. An in-depth review of a substantial number of working papers, background reports, technical notes, research articles, and statistical publications of international organizations has revealed greater disparities in employment patterns across regions. Gender inequality, discrimination by age, working poverty, occupational gender segregation, poor labor productivity. and a slow or negative wage growth rate are still features of the labor economies of many African and South Asian countries.

Published on December 30th, 2022 in Vol 33 Issue 2, Social Sciences