Open-access labour market research for Georgia — policy briefs, working papers, annual reports, and index reports. All free. No registration. No editorial influence from any funder.
GILS publishes policy briefs, working papers, data reports, and index reports on Georgian and South Caucasus labour markets. All publications are open-access, free to download, and available without registration. GILS does not publish research produced to the order of any government, employer body, trade union, or political party.
6–12 page briefs addressing specific policy questions — minimum wage methodology, collective bargaining reform, gender pay gap policy options, migrant worker protection. Each brief states the policy problem, reviews the evidence, and presents 3–5 concrete recommendations. Peer-reviewed by the Research Fellows Network before publication.
20–40 page papers presenting original data analysis on Georgian labour market topics. Methodology documented in full. Datasets available on request for peer replication. Working papers are GILS’s primary contribution to the academic literature on Georgian labour economics.
The annual Labour Market Observatory review provides a comprehensive update across all GILS data tools and indices — tracking change in wages, employment, informality, and decent work indicators year-on-year. The definitive annual reference on Georgian labour market conditions.
Annual reports accompanying the Decent Work Index and Labour Rights Index — documenting methodology, data sources, year-on-year changes, and implications for Georgian labour policy. Produced in English with Georgian executive summaries.
| Title | Author(s) | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applying the Anker Living Wage Methodology to Georgian Cities: Tbilisi, Batumi, Kutaisi, and Rural Georgia | Lasha Beridze, GILS | 2024 | Working Paper |
| Gender Pay Gap in Georgia: Structural Causes and Policy Options | Mariam Maisuradze, GILS / UN Women Georgia | 2024 | Policy Brief |
| Minimum Wage Reform in Georgia: Options, Thresholds, and Implementation | Giorgi Tsiklauri, GILS | 2024 | Policy Brief |
| Georgia Labour Market Observatory — Annual Review 2024 | GILS Research Team | 2024 | Annual Report |
| Decent Work Index Georgia 2024 | GILS Research Team | 2024 | Index Report |
| Labour Rights Index Georgia 2024 | GILS Research Team | 2024 | Index Report |
| Unpaid Care Work and Women’s Labour Market Participation in Georgia | Mariam Maisuradze, GILS | 2023 | Policy Brief |
| Georgian Labour Migration: Destination Patterns, Remittances, and Return | Tamar Abashidze, GILS / IOM Georgia | 2023 | Working Paper |
| Informal Economy in Georgia: Scale, Sectors, and Policy Options | Nino Kvitsiani, GILS | 2023 | Policy Brief |
| Occupational Health and Safety in Georgian Healthcare: A Sector Assessment | GILS / PHIG Research Team | 2023 | Working Paper |
Quantitative modelling of employment and poverty impacts of alternative minimum wage scenarios for Georgia — including dynamic effects on informality and wage compression. To be published Q2 2025.
First systematic survey of Georgian healthcare workers on wages, working conditions, overtime, occupational safety, and professional classification. Joint project with PHIG and GMJ. In fieldwork.
Systematic comparison of Georgian labour law against each relevant EU directive in the accession acquis — identifying gaps, timelines, and implementation requirements. Target: Q3 2025.
Expanded South Caucasus Scorecard — including Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia — with primary data collection and comparative decent work assessment. ILO partnership in discussion.
First assessment of gig economy scale, worker conditions, and regulatory gaps in Georgia — covering food delivery, ride-hailing, and freelance digital work. Emerging area with no existing Georgian research.
Assessment of Georgia’s medical and technical professional classification gaps — the barrier to structured wage setting in the healthcare sector that PHIG has documented since 2011.
GILS sources all data to named primary sources. We do not publish unsourced or estimated figures without methodological disclosure. Primary data sources used across GILS research:
| Source | Type | Key Data Used |
|---|---|---|
| Geostat (National Statistics Office of Georgia) | National statistics | Labour Force Survey (quarterly), wage statistics, employment by sector, regional employment data |
| ILOSTAT | International statistics | Comparative labour market data, decent work indicators, international wage comparisons |
| ILO databases | Convention and compliance | Convention ratification status, CEACR reports, social dialogue metrics |
| World Bank | Development data | Georgia household surveys, poverty data, productivity indicators |
| Solidarity Network | Civil society monitoring | Annual Workers Rights Violations Report — case-level violation data |
| GTUC | Trade union data | Collective agreement coverage, membership data |
| GMJ / PHIG | Institutional research | Healthcare worker conditions, accreditation programme findings |
GILS welcomes collaboration with academic institutions, international organisations, and civil society researchers working on Georgian and South Caucasus labour markets. We share datasets on request for peer replication of published findings.
For research collaboration, dataset requests, or peer review of work in progress, contact: info@accreditation.ge
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