Events and courses

November 2019

  1. ILO Research Department Seminar

    Socially Responsible Investment and Decent Work

    ILO’s Global Commission on the Future of Work stressed the key role of long-term financing and its impact in the creation of decent and sustainable work.

October 2019

  1. Report launch and Seminar

    Launch and presentation of the ILO Report: “What works: Promoting pathways to decent work”

    The Synthesis Report and research project “What works: Promoting pathways to decent work” of the ILO Research Department’s Policy Evaluation Unit was officially launched on 17 October 2019 in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) by the ILO Regional Office for Africa and the ILO Research Department.

  2. ILO Research Department Seminar

    Financing a Global Green New Deal

    This year’s Trade and Development Report suggests that meeting the financing demands of the Agenda 2030 requires rebuilding multilateralism around the idea of a Global Green New Deal, and pursuing a financial future very different from the recent past.

September 2019

  1. ILO Research Department Seminar

    A Financial Framework for Valuing Carbon Sequestration by Cetaceans and other environmental assets

  2. ILO Research Department Seminar

    Fertile Ground for Conflict

    We investigate how variations in soil productivity affect civil conflicts. We first present a model with heterogeneous land in which variations in input prices (fertilizers) affect appropriable rents and the opportunity costs of fighting.

July 2019

  1. ILO Research Department Seminar

    An overview of Corporate Social Responsibility in China

    CSR has become a global trend. With the growing concern on the economic development and social progress, the CSR situation in China has also aroused people's interests.

  2. Book Launch

    The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

    Carl Benedikt Frey is the Oxford Martin Citi Fellow and co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. He explains In his new book how the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation.

  3. Event

    6th Regulating for Decent Work Conference

June 2019

  1. 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.

  2. 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.