Labour Studies — GILS

The Georgian Institute of Labour Studies (GILS) is PHIG’s research programme on work: employment and unemployment, wages and social protection, informality, migration, skills, labour law and social dialogue, and occupational safety and health — with the public health perspective that a labour institute inside a health institute can bring.

What GILS publishes

Daily news briefs (Georgia Wire and Global Wire) and a weekly in-depth analysis every Thursday, each fact-checked against its sources before release.
Labour Observatory — Georgia’s labour-market indicators from Geostat, updated each quarter; Quarterly Labour Market Reports from December 2026.
Occupational Safety & Health section — 26 pages, the Georgia OSH Barometer, the National OSH Profile, a free risk-assessment checklist for construction sites and health facilities, and the annual review The State of Safety and Health at Work in Georgia every 28 April.
Open data under CC BY 4.0 — workplace accidents 2018–2025, the Barometer indicators, the Evidence Register.
Georgian Dictionary of Public Health — the 47-term Occupational Health & Labour domain, contributed by GILS.

Why a labour institute inside PHIG

Work is a determinant of health. The WHO/ILO Joint Estimates attribute 1.9 million deaths a year to occupational risk factors, four-fifths of them non-communicable disease rather than injury (WHO and ILO, 2021). In Georgia, 33 workers died at work in 2024 and 257 were injured (ILOSTAT, reported by Georgia); occupational disease is not recorded at all. GILS brings the health-system side of that picture — surveillance, occupational health services, workers’ health in health policy — alongside the labour-standards side carried by the Labour Inspection Service.

Latest from GILS

GILS · Labour Studies5 Oct 2026Flood-Driven Employment Shocks in Nepal: Supply-Chain and Informal-Work Lessons for GeorgiaAn ILO preliminary assessment of the 2026 Nepal floods identifies labour-market vulnerabilities that extend well beyond disaster zones, offering transferable insights for economies…GILS · Labour Studies3 Oct 2026Labour Inspection in Georgia Five Years After the Full Mandate: More Inspections, an Unratified Convention — and the Evidence Still MissingGeorgia’s Labour Inspection Service has had a full mandate only since 2021. Inspections have grown fast, but Convention No. 81 is still unratified, staffing data are out of date an…GILS · Labour Studies3 Oct 2026AI, Skills and Young Workers in Georgia: What the ILO’s 2026 Evidence Says — and What It Doesn’tGILS Research Team Editor: Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD Georgian Institute of Labour Studies · Trends & Skills 2 October 2026 The ILO’s 2026 reports identify the accelerati…GILS · Labour Studies3 Oct 2026Georgia and the ILO’s Lifelong Learning and Skills Report: Vocational Reform, Adult Learning and the Apprenticeship StandardGILS Research Team Editor: Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD Georgian Institute of Labour Studies · Trends & Skills 2 October 2026 In May 2026 the ILO published Lifelong learnin…GILS · Labour Studies3 Oct 2026Georgia and the ILO’s Employment and Social Trends 2026: How Georgia Compares with the Global PictureGILS Research Team Editor: Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD Georgian Institute of Labour Studies · Trends & Skills 2 October 2026 In January 2026 the ILO published Employment a…GILS · Labour Studies2 Oct 2026Georgia’s NEET Challenge: Why Young Women and Graduates Are Most at Risk of Being Left OutGILS Research Team Editor: Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD Georgian Institute of Labour Studies · GILS Analysis 2 October 2026 Roughly three in ten young Georgians aged 15–29 …

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GILS is independent of government, trade unions, employers’ organisations and the ILO; it is funded by PHIG alone. Sources: WHO and ILO (2021), WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury; ILOSTAT, occupational injuries, Georgia.

Research agenda and open call — Labour, occupational safety and health (GILS)

PHIG publishes 6 priority research questions on this topic and keeps a rolling call open to researchers, institutes, WHO and ILO colleagues and doctoral candidates. PHIG provides data, access, ethics and methodological review, and open-access publication with a DOI.

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