Presentations – Symposium: The Future of Full Employment
This page features presentations delivered during the Employment Policy Research Symposium: The Future of Full Employment, held from 12-13 December 2019, ILO/HQ.
16 December 2019
Keynote presentations
Session 1: The political economy of full employment
Session 2: New approaches to structural transformation
Session 3: Full employment: Beyond simple job counting
Session 4: Making sense of full employment in developing countries
Session 5: Attaining SDG8 – national and international action
Session 6: The future of work – transitions over the life course for women and youth
- The future of full employment. Introduction (Sangheon Lee, Director, Employment Policy Department (EMP), ILO)
- The future of full employment (Rathin Roy, Director and CEO, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi)
- The good jobs strategy. Abstract (Charles Sabel, Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, New York)
- The good jobs strategy (Charles Sabel, Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, New York)
Session 1: The political economy of full employment
- Employment matters too much to leave to markets alone (Maikel Lieuw-Kie-Song, Senior Specialist, EMP/ILO)
- Back from the closet: Fiscal policy after the crisis (Francesco Saraceno, Deputy Department Director, OFCE Sciences‐Po Paris)
Session 2: New approaches to structural transformation
- Sustainable structural transformation (Bartholomew Armah, Macroeconomic Policy Division, UNECA)
- Trade, global value chains and structural transformation (Marc Bacchetta, Economics Research and Statistics Division, WTO)
- Economic sectors, firm size and labour market structure (Juan Chacaltana, Senior Employment Specialist, EMP/ILO)
- The Basque Country: a success case of transformation of an industrial-based economy (Juan Gamboa, Orkestra Basque Institute of Competitiveness)
Session 3: Full employment: Beyond simple job counting
- Full employment: Beyond simple job counting (Janine Berg, Senior Economist, INWORK/ILO)
- Full employment is a long way off (David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics, Dartmouth University)
- Job counting – from employment and unemployment to work and labour underutilization (Kieran Walsh, Senior Statistician, STATISTICS/ILO)
Session 4: Making sense of full employment in developing countries
- Full employment in developing countries: Lesson from Brazil (Laura Barbosa de Carvalho, Associate Professor of Economics, Universidade de São Paulo)
- Making sense of full employment in developing countries (Neil Coleman, Co‐Director, Institute for Economic Justice, Johannesburg)
- Making sense of full employment in developing countries (Islam Rizwanul, former Special Adviser in the Employment Sector, ILO)
Session 5: Attaining SDG8 – national and international action
- Attaining SDG8 – national and international action (Jacob Assa, Policy Specialist, Human Development Report Team, UNDP)
- An integrated policy framework for achieving SDG 8 (Valeria Esquivel, Employment and Gender Specialist, EMP/ILO)
- Creating more and better jobs in partner countries (Francoise Millecam, Senior Expert, European Commission, Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO))
- Attaining SDG8: Inclusive and sustainable economic development from Sida’s perspective (Elina Scheja, Lead Economist, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA))
Session 6: The future of work – transitions over the life course for women and youth
- The future of work – transitions over the life course (Eichhorst Werner, Professor, IZA Institute of Labour Economics)
- Transitions on the labour market: A global approach for public employment services (Susanne Kraatz, Analyst (SNE), European Parliament)
- Plan de choque por el empleo joven (Carmen Menendez, Deputy Director, State Public Employment Service of the Government of Spain)
- Labour market transitions over the life course: taking stock (Sher Verick, Senior Employment Specialist, EMP/ILO)
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Videos of the keynote addresses
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