Media advisory

ILO wages expert to host Q&A on Reddit

ILO economist Patrick Belser will host an “Ask Me Anything” event on the social network Reddit to answer users’ questions about the ILO’s recently-released Global Wage Report. The event will take place on Monday 8 December at 16.00 GMT.

Media advisory | 02 December 2014
Patrick Belser, Senior ILO Economist
ILO economist Patrick Belser will host an “Ask Me Anything” event on the social network Reddit to answer users’ questions about the ILO’s recently-released Global Wage Report. The event will take place on Monday 8 December at 16.00 GMT.

The report, which looks at global trends in wages, found that wages in 2013 rose at an even slower pace than they had the year before and still haven’t recovered to pre-crisis levels. The report also looks at the role wages play in household income inequalities.

Users can join the online session at www.reddit.com/r/iAMA, where a link to the event will appear once it begins. Journalists who like to receive a link by email once it begins should write to smithj@ilo.org.

Patrick Belser is the Principal Editor of the Global Wage Report. Before joining the ILO in 2011, he worked at the Swiss Federal Department of the Economy and at the World Bank in Hanoi, Vietnam.

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