July 2021

1. Event

   International Labour Review: Centenary launch

   A virtual event was organized on 12 July 2021 to mark the 100th anniversary of the International Labour Review (ILR). This showcased the history of the ILR and its contributions to academic research and policy debate on the world of work at the global level. It was also an occasion to present the various initiatives planned to celebrate this important anniversary.

June 2021

1. ILO Research Department Webinar

   Knowledge Intensity and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

   Do knowledge intensive jobs exhibit lower gender gaps in wages? Here we use a linked employer-employee dataset of the entire Brazilian formal labour force to study the relationship between gender wage gaps and the knowledge intensity of industries and occupations.

2. ILO Research Department Webinar

   Environmental credentials of EU trade policy

   ILO guest speaker Ms Eline Blot from Institute for European Environmental Policy will make a presentation on the topic of “Environmental credentials of EU trade policy”. Ms Marva Corley-Coulibaly (RESEARCH) will chair the Seminar. The presentation scheduled for is an opportunity to discuss the recent research carried out by the Institute for European Environmental Policy.

May 2021

1. ILO Research Department Webinar

   Anxiety: Measuring the impact of economic stress on growth and jobs

2. 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.

April 2021

1. ILO Research Department Webinar

   Gender and the labour market in Viet Nam

   An analysis based on the Viet Nam Labour Force Survey

March 2021

1. ILO Research Department Webinar

   Before #MeToo: Protection, Rights, and the ILO’s Road to Convention #190

   In the next online Research Seminar by Professor Eileen Boris, Hull Professor, Graduate Director from the University of California, will be our guest speaker and will talk about "Before #MeToo: Protection, Rights, and the ILO's Road to Convention #190".The Seminar will be chaired by Ms Dorothea Hoehtker (RESEARCH).

October 2020

1. Workshop

   Virtual Peer Review Workshop: “Trade and Decent Work”

February 2020

1. 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.

2. 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.