Category: GILS Analysis
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Georgia’s Gender Pay Gap: Why Women Earn 33% Less — and What the Law Fails to Fix
Georgia has one of the highest gender pay gaps in the Eastern Partnership region. Women earn on average 33% less than men — a gap that has not narrowed in a decade despite strong economic growth. This analysis examines the structural causes, the legislative gaps, and what evidence-based policy can do. What Is Georgia’s Gender…
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Georgia’s Social Assistance Law: A Framework That Protects Too Few and Adapts Too Slowly
A close reading of the legislative architecture reveals structural gaps that leave hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Georgians outside the system's effective reach. Georgia's Law on Social Assistance, in its current form, reflects the priorities of a post-transition state still calibrating the boundary between market discipline and social obligation. That calibration, GILS finds, has tilted…
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Georgia’s Civil Service Law Is Overdue for a Reckoning
A decade after the 2015 Public Service Law took effect, structural gaps in merit-based recruitment and pay transparency continue to undermine the reform's original promise. Georgia's Public Service Law, adopted in 2015 and heralded at the time as a cornerstone of the country's EU integration agenda, was supposed to professionalise the civil service, insulate it…
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Georgia’s Employment Assistance Law Promises Much — Delivery Will Define Its Legacy
The legislation marks a genuine shift toward active labour market policy, but institutional capacity and targeting gaps threaten to blunt its impact before it begins. Georgia's Employment Assistance Law, which entered into force this year, represents the most substantive legislative intervention in the country's labour market architecture in more than a decade. On paper, it…
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Georgia’s Disability Rights Law Is on the Books — But the Workplace Has Not Caught Up
New legal obligations place real duties on employers, yet enforcement gaps and employer unpreparedness mean most workers with disabilities remain locked out of formal employment. Georgia's Law on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which entered into full force in 2023 following years of advocacy and parliamentary deliberation, represents the most significant legislative shift in…
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37 Percent of Georgia’s Economy Is Informal — and That Number Has Barely Moved in a Decade
Informality in Georgia is not a transition-era residue. It is a structural feature of how the economy functions. According to Geostat data and ILO estimates, approximately 37 percent of all employment in Georgia falls into the informal category — meaning workers without employment contracts, without social insurance contributions, without access to the labour protections formally…