Recruitment fees and related costs at a glance

This brochure offers key insights on global and regional data and trends on recruitment fees and related costs in a visual format. It also showcases key stakeholder initiatives, including from employers’ and workers’ organizations, state-led bilateral and multilateral initiatives aimed at reducing or eliminating recruitment fees and related costs, and regional and multi-stakeholder initiatives aimed at reducing or eliminating recruitment fees and related costs. 

The Brochure also provides information on empirical evidence on the impact of recruitment fees and related costs. It includes guidance on measuring recruitment fees and costs paid by the worker as a portion of the worker’s monthly income earned in the destination country, with data from eight countries and further disaggregates the information by gender for seven of them. This document also briefly explores the links between gender and recruitment fees and related costs.