Integrating Trade and Decent Work
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NEW Reports
These two publications on Integrating Trade and Decent Work provide crucial insights into aligning trade and labour policies for promoting decent work and equitable growth. The first volume offers a detailed framework for analysing trade's impact on labour markets, while the second volume explores labour issues in trade and investment frameworks.
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Seminar
The high-level seminar will present key findings from the SUPPORT project, focusing on aligning trade policies with labour market institutions for sustainable development. The event features a high-level panel, including ILO, UNCTAD, and WTO representatives, to discuss innovative strategies and best practices in the trade-labor nexus.
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Report
An important question related to labour provisions in trade agreements is how these mechanisms – which are detailed in the trade agreements – work in practice, particularly in the context of a labour dispute.
Programme Background
- Assessing the distributional effects of trade on the labour market using decent work indicators (under the ASSESS project);
- Supporting sustainable development through the alignment of trade policies and domestic labour market institutions so as to reduce inequalities, and gaps in social protection and poverty (under the SUPPORT project);
- Implementing activities to bridge capacity gaps and support policymakers and the social partners in engaging more effectively in dialogue on trade and labour market policies (under the IMPLEMENT project (forthcoming)).
Meetings and Events
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High-level seminar
Integrating Trade and Decent Work: What Works and Why?
27 November 2023
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Training Course
Trade, Investment and Decent Work for Asia
29 - 31 May 2023
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Meeting
Second Advisory Committee meeting on Integrating Trade and Decent Work
12 May 2022
Papers and Briefs
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A Multi-Faceted Typology of Labour Provisions in Trade Agreements: Overview, Methodology and Trends
24 November 2021
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Trade and Decent Work: Adequate Earnings in the Mexican Manufacturing Industries
13 July 2021
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Trade agreements and decent work in Mexico: the case of the automotive and textile industries
29 June 2021