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The ILO’s International Institute for Labour Studies has created a research prize to annually reward outstanding contributions to the advancement of knowledge on the ILO’s central goal of decent work for all.
Prize winners are selected by a five member jury consisting of eminent personalities with an international reputation and proven expertise in labour and social policy issues.
Under the rules of the ILO Decent Work Research Prize, individuals and institutions can nominate candidates but only individuals qualify as candidates. Each nominee must have the support of at least one organization from the ILO’s tripartite
constituency (i.e. a government, a workers’ or an employers’ organization) and one leading academic in the area of labour and social policy. The letters of support should come from different regions of the world.
The jury examines relevant publications of the candidates. Both the excellence of the work and its practical value for policy purposes are taken into account.
 Nobel prize-winning economist, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, addressed a special sitting of the Governing Body on the impact of the global financial and economic crisis. He was presented with the 2008 ILO Decent Work Research Prize by ILO Director-General, Juan Somavia, who praised his call for a more balanced globalization and stronger regulation of financial markets.
- Congratulatory remarks and address by Minister Carlos Alfonso Tomada - (pdf 43.3 KB)
2008 Decent Work Research Prize
The second ILO Decent Work Research Prize was awarded at the closing plenary of the ILO’s International Labour Conference on 13 June 2008 to Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and leading Canadian labour researcher Harry
Arthurs.
The jury named Professor Joseph STIGLITZ, of Columbia University, New York, for his extraordinary lifetime contribution to knowledge on the central concerns of the ILO and its constituents reflecting advances in understanding of different dimensions of decent work.
Professor Harry ARTHURS, former Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, Canada and former President of the University, was cited for a major specific contribution to the understanding of socio-economic relationships and policy instruments for the advancement of decent work.
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