Events and courses
June 2019
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ILO Research Department Seminar
Direct and indirect effects of a subsidized apprenticeship program
Evaluations of employment programs usually focus on direct impacts on participants, but potential indirect effects are rarely quantified. This paper analyzes how the introduction of a subsidized apprenticeship program in Côte d’Ivoire impacts youths’ decision to enter apprenticeship and firms’ demand for apprentices in the short-term.
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ILO Research Department Seminar
Trade and Development Report 2018 - Power, platforms and the free trade delusion
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.
May 2019
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9-10 May 2019, International Labour Organization, Geneva
First ILO-CEPR-IGC-UNIGE Conference on Labour Markets in Developing Countries
The 2019 CEPR/IGC/ILO/UNIGE Conference on Labour Markets in Developing Countries will be held in Geneva on 9-10 May 2019 at the headquarters of the ILO. The Conference is jointly organised by CEPR, IGC, ILO and the Institute of Economics and Econometrics at the GSEM-University of Geneva.
February 2019
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ILO Research Department Seminar
Challenges and contradictions in the normalisation of precarious work
Jill Rubery has worked at Manchester since 1989, first at the Manchester School of Management at UMIST and since 2004 in Alliance Manchester Business School. She previously worked at the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge University. She is the Director of the Work and Equalities Institute at Alliance Manchester Business School. She was previously Deputy Director of Alliance Manchester Business School (2007-2013) and head of the People, Management and Organisation Division ( 2004- 2009). In 2006 she was elected a fellow of the British Academy and an emeritus fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
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.
December 2018
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ILO Research Department Seminar
Should I stay or should I go? Austerity, unemployment and migration
The seminar will discuss the differences between the effects different of tax-spending instruments used for debt consolidation in the presence of cross-country labour mobility using a general equilibrium framework.
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ILO Research Department Seminar
Global Supply Chains, employment and production systems
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ILO Research Department Seminar
Do jobs aid peace?
The seminar will discuss the contribution of employment programmes to peacebuilding in conflict-affected countries. Prof. Tilman Brück will present the findings from his recent publication titled “Jobs aid peace”, highlighting the main theories linking employment programmes and peace. The good practices for conducting evaluations of employment programmes in conflict-affected countries will also be examined.
November 2018
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ILO Research Department Seminar
Labour Law in a Warming World
The seminar will discuss regulatory dimensions of the labour and environmental sustainability nexus, and will explore possibilities for developing a more ecologically-attuned labour regulations.
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ILO Research Department Seminar
Trade and labour standards
Presenters: Professor Daniel Damasio Borges (UNESP, Brazil / IEA de Nantes, France) Discussant : Karen Curtis (ILO, Normes)