Volume 2. Literature Review on Migrant Labor

The United Nations body warned that many migrant workers face uncertainty at work and their situation has been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic."The COVID-19 crisis has intensified the vulnerabilities, particularly for women migrant workers, as they are over-represented in low-paid and low-skilled jobs and have limited access to social protection and fewer options for support services," according to the ILO study, which is based on data from 189 countries.The ILO further pointed out substantial gender differences exist between the sectors with a higher number of women migrant workers in services including health and domestic work, partly due to growing labor demand for care workers.Highlighting the value to countries of compiling reliable statistics on their migrant labor workforce, ILO insisted that this would help them "respond to shifts in labor supply and demand, stimulate innovation and sustainable development, and transfer and update skills".