wow-inequalities/03-supplementary_data/terms_of_reference-key_terms.md

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# Terms of Reference
- attention to root causes of inequalities of work
- drivers and determinants across all dimensions
- addressing both distribution and redistribution
- seen as the most innovative one (?)
- fundamental principles and rights in intl labor standards
- social dialogue and tripartism
- interconnectedness, integration and monitoring
- country-specific approaches
the assignment will:
- explain what inequalities in the world of work are
- why they should be addressed
- what is added value of ILO doing so
with target groups:
- ILO staff & constitutents
- external stakeholders & partners
objectives:
- general: support position of ILO as key actor in ongoing debates and initiatives of multilateral system on poverty and inequalities
- 1: improve understanding of what inequalities in the world of work are
- root causes
- their linkages
- how they feed into outcomes
- 2: identify evidence-based policy responses to prevent and reduce inequalities in the world of work
- minimizing of inequalities
- reducing the outcomes of inequalities
dates:
- Sep 30:
- draft detailed outline for conceptual framework
- chapter indication
- definition of inequalities in world of work, drivers and determinants
- Oct 30:
- annotated bibliography identifying effective and evidence-based policy responses to adress inequality in world of work
- annotated bibl will inform dev of conceptual framework
- presentation to task force to gather inputs and views from diff departments
## Working Strategy
### Identifying root causes of LM inequalities
- a fundamental typology of inequalities within the LM *and* beyond the labor market is necessary
- as ILO recognizes inequalities generate feedback cycles
- within a life cycle and inter-generationally (through inequalities of outcomes)
- to understand inequalities in the world of work, those beyond should not be a black box
- gender/socio-demographic/pre-existing inequalities
- put very simply:
- it might make sense for a mother to move away from a job to a space with better educational access for her child and the resulting issue should concern *both*
- access to better education in the original region
- the impact of better job availability or active labour market policies in the new region
- for each form of work to understand the primary inequalities in the LM
- we need to understand how pre-existing inequalities feed into them as independent variables
- often this will take the form of e.g. socio-demographic inequalities reflecting income inequalities
- but not always, and that is the locating of the root causes I would see as primary goal for the first part of the review
### Identifying evidence-based policy responses which address these inequalities
- if we manage to break open the black box of root causes in this way
- for vertical but especially for horizontal inequalities
- it should make it easier to analyze the impacts of policies removing inequalities for
- the causes they help reduce the effect of
- the impact on labour market inequalities itself
- and the effects on resulting equality/inequalities of opportunity
# Conceptual definitions
labour
'nature of work'
work
worlds of work
inequality in work
## forms of work
paid employment work
own-use production work
unpaid work
care work
volunteer work
unpaid trainee work
## labor market outcomes
employment
unemployment
underemployment
labour force participation
self-employment/informality
labour productivity
skills
wages/earnings
hours worked
job security
social protection coverage
labour mobility
## socio-demographic categories
gender
ethnicity
race
age
disability
## types of inequalities (in worlds of work)
general characteristics of inequality:
- 'pre-world of work' inequalities; starting well before individuals enter world of work
- unequal opportunities to healthcare, literacy, quality education
- often borne from poverty, gender, family background, lack of legal status/identity
- others often born with many advantages that give easy opportunistic access to build human capital
- inequality of opportunities !== inequality of outcome
- often, today's inequalities affect future (generations') opportunities
- high levels of current inequality = reduction in future social mobility
- conversely, (some?) focus should be put on equality of outcome today to ensure equality of opportunity tomorrow
- while focusing on these intra-country horizontal inequalities, inter-country inequalities (esp income inequality, but predisposing other as well) should not be neglected
- distinction between:
- vertical inequality
- between all households in a country
- horizontal inequality
- betweek different groups
- disparities in employment outcomes, labour rights, opportunities between groups depending on gender, age, nationality, ethnicity, health status, disability or other characteristics
forms of inequality:
- access to essential services (health, education, housing)
- income inequality
- access to means of subsistence (esp related to employment)
- gender inequality (part of horizontal, being one of the 'greatest forms of inequality today')
- results in gender-based violence, harassment, domestic violence, unpaid care work
- especially girls often facing unequal opportunities and 'persistent gender stereotypes in their access to education and health services and in other aspects of life' [13, ILC]
- in most regions wome over-represented among poorest and under-represented among richest people (esp in SoutAs;EastAs;Pacific regions)
- born primarily from unequal access to quality education, inequalities and injustices in labour market participation, gender earnings gaps
- often also results in children being exposed to severe health and food deprivation and differences in control over assets (capital/land)
- recently exacerbated by COVID-19 reversing equality progress through increased women's/men's paid/unpaid/care work inequalities
- girls/boys from ethnic minorities, indigenous, tribal populations, remote rural areas often facing barriers accessing quality education & essential services
- indigenous people account for 6% of world pop but 19% of extreme poor
- stark contrast between migrant workers' high labour force participation rates and large proportion of low-income households
- spatial inequalities (rural/urban; small/large cities; richt/poor regions)
- contributes to overall more fractures/unequal societies
- intersectional inequalities (made possible to highlight by vert/horiz inequality split)
- unequal distribution of work & labour income
- among workforce among most important determinants of inequality
- unemployment: forecloses income prospects; highest rate in young people
- underemployment:
- low wages make meeting basic needs impossible (esp. food, healthcare, education, decent housing)
- including differentiation time-related underemployment (would like to work more paid hours); potential labour force (would like to work but not actively searching or not available for work); creates (way) higher numbers than purely unemployment numbers - especially in LIC
- recently, (COVID-19) women, young people, less educated, low earners less likely to keep their jobs
## types of policies
- income:
- difference between primary distribution ('market income', through property and employment) and secondary distribution ('disposable income', through taxes and transfers), and tertiary distribution (public services)
- tax and transfers redistributing incomes towards greater equality in disposable income
- extent of redistribution limited by small fiscal resources (e.g. through informal labour predominance)
- policies to reduce income difference between urban/rural, ethnic minorities/majority one of main drivers of reduced income inequality (LAC region)
# Summary draft
- pre-world of work characteristics already taking huge influence on labour market and related equality of outcomes
- inequality in access to essential services (health, education, housing)
- inequality in access to means of subsistence (esp related to employment)
- income inequality huge driver of resulting inequalities, in turn already influenced by characteristics, additionally:
- spatial inequality
- gender inequality
- employment inequality:
- unemployment: forecloses income prospects; highest rate in young people
- underemployment: low wages make meeting basic needs impossible (esp. food, healthcare, education, decent housing)
- split into time-related underemployment and potential labour force