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AI and occupational evaluation

AI’s role in evaluating job prestige and value spotlighted by new ILO research

The utility and accuracy of AI tools in evaluating a range of job occupations, in comparison to human assessments, has potential benefits such as efficiency, cost effectiveness and speed, but some obstacles need to be overcome.

ILO Working paper 102

A Technological Construction of Society: Comparing GPT-4 and Human Respondents for Occupational Evaluation in the UK (epub)

The paper systematically compares GPT-4's evaluations of occupations with those from a high-quality human survey in the UK, finding high correlation but also highlighting the potentials and risks of using LLMs in sociological and occupational research.

ILO Working paper 102

A Technological Construction of Society: Comparing GPT-4 and Human Respondents for Occupational Evaluation in the UK (mobi)

The paper systematically compares GPT-4's evaluations of occupations with those from a high-quality human survey in the UK, finding high correlation but also highlighting the potentials and risks of using LLMs in sociological and occupational research.

ILO Working paper 102

A Technological Construction of Society: Comparing GPT-4 and Human Respondents for Occupational Evaluation in the UK

The paper systematically compares GPT-4's evaluations of occupations with those from a high-quality human survey in the UK, finding high correlation but also highlighting the potentials and risks of using LLMs in sociological and occupational research.

United Kingdom-ILO Cooperation

Fact-sheet, November 2023

Data science researchers from UK and Rwanda collaborate with the ILO to drive the global impact of financial education

An exciting collaboration between the University of Liverpool, The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Rwanda and the ILO aims to use the power of data analytics to increase the impact of the ILO Global Programme on Financial Education and to drive positive behavioural change amongst target groups in Africa and beyond.

ILO Working Paper 74

Collective bargaining in seven European countries throughout the pandemic (epub)

This Working Paper investigates developments in social dialogue and collective bargaining during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in a selection of European countries.

ILO Working Paper 74

Collective bargaining in seven European countries throughout the pandemic (mobi)

This Working Paper investigates developments in social dialogue and collective bargaining during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in a selection of European countries.

ILO Working Paper 74

Collective bargaining in seven European countries throughout the pandemic (html)

This Working Paper investigates developments in social dialogue and collective bargaining during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in a selection of European countries.

ILO Working Paper 74

Collective bargaining in seven European countries throughout the pandemic

This Working Paper investigates developments in social dialogue and collective bargaining during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in a selection of European countries.

Promising practices for fair recruitment

Recruitment of health workers through bilateral labour agreements (BLAs): Kenya and the United Kingdom

This promising practice is part of a series, and results from a stocktaking exercise undertaken five years after the launch of the Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI).

Violence and Harassment

The United Kingdom ratifies the Violence and Harassment Convention

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland becomes the 11th country in the world, and the 3rd country in Europe, to ratify Convention No. 190.

12th Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy - Elective 4: SSE and South-South and triangular cooperation

ILO COOP participates in the first Robert Owen Academy Annual Lecture

The first Robert Owen Academy Annual Lecture on “Post pandemic community - regeneration through co-operative multi agency partnerships” took place virtually on June 12, 2021.

Remembering Johnston Birchall

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Liz Green, Executive Vice President, ICMIF

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE). On this occasion, the ILO interviewed Liz Green, Executive Vice President at ICMIF.

Countering unemployment in the United Kingdom

This report charts the evolution of measures to combat unemployment in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland over the three decades 1970–2000.

Global Compact on Migration

UNECE region reviews Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

EU - ILO comparative review

Individual and collective dispute resolution systems - A comparative review

The present report investigates specific individual and collective labour dispute resolution practices and institutions in a selected sample of countries: Australia, Belgium, France, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The countries were selected to reflect broadly different legal and industrial relations systems with diverse forms and traditions of dispute resolution.

ILO COOP Chiefs across time

This page provides bibliographies of the chiefs and heads of the ILO's Cooperatives Unit since its establishment in 1920.