Events and courses
March 2023
-
ILO Research Department Training
Evidence-based policy making for trade agreements and labour rights
Emerging evidence from constituents of the Asian region shows that there is a large gap in the capacity of the tripartite decision makers on how to better integrate trade within the labour rights issues. ILO’s constituents are requesting assistance in addressing the implications of trade liberalization arrangements on employment, ILS and decent work. The training will provide assistance to constituents in both the use and generation of relevant evidence from a variety of sources, including not only ILO but also national and local sources, including evidence generation through data and metadata analysis. The aim of this online training is to build capacities of ILO’s tripartite constituents using case studies, research papers, guidelines, publicly available online ILO data, other data and information sources for permitting them to comprehend and assess the interrelationship between international trade, ILS and decent work. This training is targeted to policy makers and policy influencers from the Asian region representing the trade unions and workers, employers representatives as well as government officials from various ministries.
March 2022
-
Webinar
Joint ILO-WTO Webinar on Gender, trade and labour market outcomes in Covid times
The Webinar will bring together academics, experts from international organisations, including from the WTO and ILO to discuss gender, trade and labour market outcomes with a specific emphasis on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected employment, wages and other decent work indicators and on how trade can help make the recovery more inclusive.
February 2022
-
Brown Bag Lunch
Effects of a transition for environmental sustainability on labour and trade: literature review
The working paper reviews the extant theoretical and empirical literature on the environment, labour, and trade. It gives an overview of the evidence of the impacts of climatic change on labour and trade, of the concept of a green economy, environmental policy measures and introduces some questions arising from the calls for a ‘just transition’. It reviews theoretical literature on the channels through which policies promoting an environmental transition affect labour and trade, and which empirical strategies are commonly used to study this relationship. It also provides an overview of existing empirical evidence on the relationship between labour and environmental transitions, trade and environmental transitions, and labour, trade and the environment. Finally, it identifies the gaps in the literature and concludes.
January 2022
-
Launch Event
Launch: ILO Labour Provisions in Trade Agreements Hub
Launch of the Labour Provisions in Trade Agreements Hub (LP Hub) - a one-stop shop for information on labour provisions in more than 100 regional trade agreements in over 140 economies.
December 2021
May 2021
-
ILO Research Department Webinar
COVID-19 and Multinational Enterprises: FDI, Trade and Decent Work in Asia Pacific
This Research Webinar will focus on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on multinational enterprises, focusing on FDI, trade and decent work in the Asia and the Pacific region. The Webinar will present a recent ILO Brief that was prepared jointly by the ILO's Research Department, the Multinational Enterprises and Enterprise Engagement Unit of ILO's Enterprises Department, and the ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.
October 2020
February 2020
-
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.
-
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.
June 2019
-
ILO Research Department Seminar
Trade and Development Report 2018 - Power, platforms and the free trade delusion
Presenter: Jeronim Capaldo (UNCTAD), Chair: Tahmina Karimova (RESEARCH, ILO)
Jeronim Capaldo is an Economist who joined the ILO in 2014. His research focuses on macroeconometric modelling, which he applies to project global scenarios for growth, employment and income distribution. He is currently on a secondment to UNCTAD. Previously, Jeronim worked at Tufts University and at the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs. He is a graduate of the USA New School for Social Research (Phd in Economics) and the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Laurea in Economia).