The GLWC and Anker Research Institute are delighted to announce a new 2022 Living Wage Reference Value for typical rural areas of the Republic of Congo. This Reference Value estimates the wage a worker in rural areas of Congo would need to receive each month to afford a basic but decent living. Anker Reference Values […]
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The latest news and announcements from the Global Living Wage Coalition.
New Reference Values for Guatemala and Jordan
The GLWC and Anker Research Institute are pleased to announce two new 2022 Living Wage Reference Values for typical urban areas of Guatemala and Jordan. These Reference Values estimate the wage a worker in typical urban areas of both Guatemala and Jordan would need to receive each month to afford a basic but decent living. […]
Anker Research Institute presents Living Wage Benchmark for Rural Cibao Norte, Dominican Republic to stakeholders
On March 9th, 2023, the Anker Research Institute presented the draft Living Wage Benchmark Report for Rural Cibao Norte, Dominican Republic to an open meeting for stakeholders in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. The stakeholder feedback meeting is an important step in the Anker Methodology for Estimating Living Wages, ensuring that the research process […]
Anker Research Institute Releases Living Income and Living Wage Study for the Colombian Coffee Sector
On March 31, 2023, Verité in partnership with the Anker Research Institute, published the “Living Income and Living Wage Report: Rural Areas and Small Towns of Central Colombia. ” In addition to providing a benchmark for the Colombian coffee sector, the study results provide a living wage and living income benchmark for a pilot project […]
New: First of Its Kind Study Explores Gender Pay Gaps in the Colombia Banana Export Sector
Today marks the publication of the Anker Research Institute’s Gender Pay Gap study in the Colombian banana sector, the first of five to pilot the Institute’s methodology for measuring gender pay gaps at the workplace level. The development of this methodology and release of the first study are important steps forward for the living wage […]
New: 2022 Reference Values for Zambia, Zimbabwe & Mozambique
The GLWC and Anker Research Institute are pleased to announce new 2022 Living Wage Reference Values for typical rural areas of Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. These Reference Values estimate the wage a worker located in a typical rural area of these countries would need to receive each month to afford a basic but decent living. […]
New Living Wage and Income Benchmark: Nayarit, Mexico
The GLWC is pleased to share a brand new Anker Living Wage and Income Benchmark report for Nayarit, Mexico for areas that actively grow tobacco, sugar cane, mangoes, and bananas, as well as a growing fishing industry. The research in this benchmark complements that of Michoacán (2020), and provides a vision the living income and […]
In Conversation With: Fair Labor Association
The GLWC is proud to announce a new series about the actions our member organisations have taken regarding living wages. As a Coalition, we work to enable collaborative action to achieve a decent standard of living for working people and their families worldwide and each of our member organisations work towards this individually and collectively […]
Looking Back: The Year in Research & Action
This year marked another opportunity to advance living wage research from the Anker Research Institute and promote living wage action from the GLWC and our member organizations. Here we present a collection of some of our favorite moments of 2022. Stakeholder meetings convened diverse organizations around Anker Living Wage and Income-related research and activities. The […]
Living Wage as a Right: Salient Concerns in its Implementation
The Anker Research Institute is pleased to announce their participation at the IDH Living Wage Summit in Brussels on the 7th of December and is eager to invite everyone to join their session ‘Living Wage as a Right’. Representatives of firms and workers, together with officials from the standard-setting organization Fair Labor Association, and a […]
