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ILO Research paper No. 6
Employment and Economic Class in the Developing World
Kapsos, Steven and Bourmpoula, Evangelia
This paper introduces a model for generating national estimates and projections of the distribution of the employed across five economic classes for 142 developing countries over the period 1991 to 2017.
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ILO Research paper No. 5
Trade and Employment in a Vertically Specialized World
Jiang, Xiao
This paper decomposes the employment effects of a country’s trade into five components, specifically the labour content (1) in exports, (2) in imports, (3) in the import content of exports, (4) in the export content of imports, and (5) in intermediates contained in imports from a third country using the factor-content and input-output methods.
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ILO Research paper No. 4
The comments of the ILO's Supervisory bodies: Usefulness in the context of the sanction-based dimension of labour provisions in US free trade agreements
Gravel, Eric; Delpech, Quentin;
This paper looks at recent complaints under the labour chapters of three US trade agreements – the CAFTA-DR, the US-Bahrain and the US-Peru FTAs – and undertakes a preliminary analysis of the use of the comments of the ILO’s supervisory bodies in the regulation mechanisms of labour provisions contained in those trade agreements
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ILO Research paper No. 3
Structure Matters: Sectoral drivers of growth and the labour productivity-employment relationship
Kucera, David; Roncolato, Leanne
The paper uses accounting methods to decompose aggregate labour productivity and employment growth into their sectoral components as well as into within-sector and employment reallocation effects for a sample of 81 countries.
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ILO Research paper No. 2
Macroeconomic policy advice and the Article IV consultations: A Development perspective
Islam, Iyanatul; Ahmed, Ishraq; Roy, Rathin; Ramos, Raquel
The paper undertakes a content analysis of 2009-2010 IMF Article IV consultations for a sample of 30 low-income and 20 middle-income countries and points out that insufficient attention have been given to employment generation, poverty reduction and expansion of social protection
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ILO Research Paper No. 1
Income Inequality, Redistribution and Poverty: Contrasting rational choice and behavioural perspectives
Luebker, Malte
This paper revisits the relationship between inequality and redistribution. The findings challenge the narrow concept of rational choice and points towards fairness orientations, which is emphasized in behavioural economics for a better understanding of redistributive outcomes.
