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This Research and Learning Agenda reflects concerns and knowledge gaps relevant for ILO constituents (governments and employers’ and workers’ organizations) and partners, with inputs from ILO experts in headquarters and the field, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working on digital wages…
Labour legislation measures that explicitly refer to digital wage payments.
Financial inclusion and financial sector policy strategies and measures that explicitly refer to digital wage payments.
Labour policy measures of relevance to the promotion of responsible digital wage payments.
Financial legislation measures that explicitly refer to the digital payment of wages.
Collective agreements that explicit refer to the digital payment of wages.
Since the end of World War II, pairs of countries have entered into over a thousand bilateral labor agreements (BLAs) to regulate the cross-border flow of workers. These agreements have received little public or academic attention. This is likely, in…
This blog post presents lessons learned and recommendations to companies and governments wanting to scale up digital wages and drive change, in relation to three UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments, based on lessons from Bangladesh, Jordan, and Senegal.
Financial inclusion is a cornerstone of development, and since 2011, the Global Findex Database has been the definitive source of data on global access to financial services from payments to savings and borrowing. The 2021 edition, based on nationally representative…
Using data from a Mexican FinTech firm, the authors study the usage by workers of earned wages access. They find usage to be significant and concentrated towards the end of the pay cycle. They document that such usage is associated…