Events and courses

May 2019

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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.

  2. ILO Research Department Seminar

    Global Supply Chains, employment and production systems

  3. 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

  1. 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.

  2. ILO Research Department Seminar

    Trade and labour standards

    Presenters: Professor Daniel Damasio Borges (UNESP, Brazil / IEA de Nantes, France) Discussant : Karen Curtis (ILO, Normes)

October 2018

  1. Les Entretiens France-BIT

    The future of work: More voice for better decisions in the enterprise

June 2018

  1. Event

    Artifical intelligence and work

    Report to the French government