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wages statistics adopted by the 12th ICLS (October 1973). “The concept of
earnings, as applied in wages statistics, relates to remuneration in cash and in
kind paid to employees, as a rule at regular intervals, for time worked or work
done together with remuneration for time not worked, such as for annual
vacation, other paid leave or holidays” (ILO, 1973). Earnings exclude
employers' contributions to social security and pension schemes, as well as
severance and termination pay.

Estimation methodology of SDG indicator 10.7.1 from Lao PDR LFS 2017
The Guidelines for statistics for SDG indicator 10.7.1 “recommend that the
statistics/estimates on costs and earnings used to calculate 10.7.1 should refer
to the first job obtained in the last country of destination within recent years
(for example, in the 3 years prior to the survey year)” (ILO & World Bank, 2018),
and earnings should be collected for the first month of that job. However, this
pilot test was implemented before the Guidelines were finalised, and estimates
presented in this paper refer to the typical monthly earnings during the last
job abroad, as in the LFS questionnaire (LSB, 2018).
Recruitment costs indicator (RCI): In this paper the RCI is defined only for
the subset M of those return migrant workers with non-zero recruitment costs
and non-zero earnings abroad, so that the indicator can be produced and
analysed at individual level, as the equivalent number of months of salary to
recover the recruitment cost. Statistics on those migrant workers with no
recruitment costs or with no earnings should be published separately in
addition to the RCI. The RCI indicator is a proportion of costs in earnings at
individual level. It can be expressed as a function of the costs and earnings of
the return migrant worker k in the subset of M migrant workers;
i.e.:

= ( )

Where
= is the recruitment costs paid by individual k, among the subset
of M migrant workers who declared both costs and earnings
(non-zero costs and non-zero earnings);

= is the monthly earnings of the same individual k, among the
subset of M migrant workers.

At aggregate levels the measure can be equated to using a proportion of
totals (total costs and total earnings); i.e.:

∑
= =1
∑
=1
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