GENEVA: A global economic slowdown will force more workers into accepting lower-quality, poorly paid jobs in 2023 while inflation gobbles up real term wages, the United Nations warned on Monday.

As prices rise faster than incomes, the cost-of-living crisis risks pushing more people into poverty, the UN's International Labor Organization (ILO) said, while unemployment around the world is set to rise.

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