Acknowledgements

.Main contributions

This report was prepared by staff of the Inclusive Labour Markets, Labour Relations and Working Conditions Branch (INWORK) of the ILO under the responsibility of Philippe Marcadent, Chief of INWORK. Patrick Belser, Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez and Ding Xu were the main authors of the report. Patrick Belser and Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez provided overall coordination and were the principal editors of the report. Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez coordinated and produced the empirical evidence in the report. Ding Xu produced estimates for regional and global wage trends. Chris Edgar coordinated the editing, publication and anonymous peer review of the report. The ILO Publications Production Unit (PRODOC) provided production project management, graphic design, including cover design, typesetting, copy-editing and proofreading. Luis Sundkvist copy-edited the initial draft. Claire Piper provided secretarial, editing, and proofreading support. Our special thanks go to Manuela Tomei, Director of the ILO Conditions of Work and Equality Department.

.Special contributions

Khalid Maman Waziri contributed to the preparation of the quarterly survey data used in several parts of the report. The technical peer review for the empirical analysis in Chapters 3 and 4, carried out in addition to the general review of the report, was undertaken by Jostin Kitmang. Giulia de Lazzari contributed to the revision of the final version of the report. Tobias Haepp, Samuel Kembou and Hugo Ñopo provided background research on wage policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

.Special thanks

Our special thanks go to all the national statistical offices which assisted us with our data collection efforts. We would also like to thank the entire team at ILO/SIALC (Labour Analysis and Information System in Latin America and the Caribbean) in Panama, in particular Horacio Barría, for providing data on wages for Latin America and the Caribbean.

We also wish to thank the following people for their comments on an initial draft of the report: Maria Helena Andre, Maurizio Bussi, Umberto Cattaneo, Rafael Diaz de Medina, Roger Gomis, David Mosler, Yves Perardel, Shahrashoub Razavi, Marie-Claire Sodergren, Maya Stern Plaza and Michael Watt.

Our particular thanks go to two anonymous referees who peer-reviewed the report. We are also grateful to the ILO Publishing Committee for coordinating the internal peer reviewers from the various departments from headquarters and the regional offices of the ILO.