Events and courses
April 2022
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Research Seminar
How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate
China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country’s rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China’s path.
January 2022
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Brown Bag Lunch
Scoping Study: International Investment Agreements
The aim of the report is to gain a better initial understanding of the references to labour in investment agreements. The main purpose is to scope investment agreements on references for keywords that can be related to labour protection since they might have an impact on the application of investment agreements and potentially address concerns with regard to freezing or lowering labour protection. In this report, the focus is on keywords that can be linked to labour protection, but which as such do not yet constitute a labour provision as defined by the International Labour Organization (ILO). These keywords can be considered as proxies to gain insight into the importance of labour concerns in investment agreements. The search of keywords is executed on two datasources from UNCTAD. One which contains all negotiated investment agreements and one which contains so-called Model Bilateral Investment Agreements.
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Webinar
Labour market transitions: Findings and research directions from a novel dataset
In this virtual event, authors of the ILO brief that introduces this occupational mobility network will discuss their collaboration, methods used, initial findings, and future research directions that may be pursued in 2022 and beyond.
July 2021
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ILO Research Department Webinar
Using vacancy data to study skills dynamics
Knowing what skills are required by employers when recruiting new workers is an important basis for the work of all labour market actors. This seminar, will present the project “Machbarkeitsstudie Kompetenz-Kompass”, which has developed a methodology to identify recent hard and soft skill requirements in job ads published on the “BA-Jobbörse” employment website provided by the Federal Employment Agency (Germany).
April 2021
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ILO Research Department Webinar
Gender and the labour market in Viet Nam
An analysis based on the Viet Nam Labour Force Survey
October 2020
February 2020
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Workshop
Tripartite Workshop Trade and Labour Market Challenges in Mexico
The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Research Department, the ILO Country Office for Mexico and Cuba and the European Commission (EC) are jointly organizing a research seminar and tripartite workshop in Mexico City over 1.5 days. The two events, which will take place on 27-28th February 2020, are within the framework of the project “Trade, enterprises and labour markets: diagnostic and firm level assessment”. The aim of the project is to inform on polices to anticipate and mitigate the labour market impacts of trade at the macro and enterprise level through a better understanding of the methodologies, frameworks and indicators used to assess impacts. In doing so, the project will go beyond quantitative metrics of the labour markets such as employment and productivity and analysis labour rights and working conditions.
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ILO Research Seminar
Effects of Trade on the Labour Market
The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Research Department, the ILO Country Office for Mexico and Cuba and the European Commission (EC) are jointly organizing a research seminar and tripartite workshop in Mexico City over 1.5 days. The two events, which will take place on 27-28th February 2020, are within the framework of the project “Trade, enterprises and labour markets: diagnostic and firm level assessment”. The aim of the project is to inform on polices to anticipate and mitigate the labour market impacts of trade at the macro and enterprise level through a better understanding of the methodologies, frameworks and indicators used to assess impacts. In doing so, the project will go beyond quantitative metrics of the labour markets such as employment and productivity and analysis labour rights and working conditions.
October 2019
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Report launch and Seminar
Launch and presentation of the ILO Report: “What works: Promoting pathways to decent work”
The Synthesis Report and research project “What works: Promoting pathways to decent work” of the ILO Research Department’s Policy Evaluation Unit was officially launched on 17 October 2019 in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) by the ILO Regional Office for Africa and the ILO Research Department. On the occasion of the launch, a seminar was organized to present the findings of the report to policy makers, leading academics and international experts in the region. The seminar offered an opportunity to discuss the role of complementarities in labour market policies in addressing employment and social challenges in the region.
January 2019
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ILO Research Department Seminar
Labour market reforms in Italy (2014-2018)
Marco Leonardi is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Milan. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2004, specializing in Labour Economics. Before starting his academic career in Milan, he worked as Researcher at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). He has published extensively on contemporary labour market topics, such as wage inequality, EPLs, temporary work and job mobility. During the years 2014-2018 he has held several advisory positions for the Italian Government.