RECHERCHE ET ANALYSE: 31 AOÛT — 1 SEPTEMBRE 2009

  

Atelier OMC-OIT sur le commerce mondial et l'emploi

L'OMC et l'Organisation internationale du travail (OIT) ont organisé un atelier de chercheurs internationaux éminents sur le commerce mondial et l'emploi à l'OMC, à Genève, les 31 août et 1er septembre 2009, avec le soutien de la Fondation de la CCI pour la recherche.

Voir aussi:

> ICC Research Foundation
> L'OMC et l'Organisation Internationale du Travail (OIT)
  

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(uniquement en anglais)
The aims of the workshop were to:
  • identify and report on the latest research being carried out on global trade and employment
  • discuss policy options for governments on trade and employment
  • develop a list of priority issues for research on trade and employment. .

The workshop was part of on-going research collaboration between the WTO and the ILO on global trade and employment.

  

Programme

August 31 and September 1, 2009

9.30

Opening Remarks

(Chair: Patrick Low)

  • Pascal Lamy, Director-General WTO

  • Juan Somavia, Director-General ILO
      

10.00

Introduction to workshop set-up and objectives

(Chair: Patrick Low)

  • Marion Jansen
      

10.15-11.30

Theme 1: Offshoring and Labour Demand

(Chair: Marc Bacchetta)

Lead discussants:

11.45-13.00

Theme 2: Trade, Firms and Employment (firm level data, new new trade theory)

(Chair: Marion Jansen)

Lead discussants:

13.00-13.15

Welcoming words

  • Victor K. Fung, Chairman, International Chamber of Commerce and ICC Research Foundation 
      

 

August 31: Afternoon session

  

14.30-15.45

Theme 3: Trade and Inequality

(Chair: Steve Redding)

Lead discussants:
16.15-17.30

Theme 4: Trade, Informality and Other Aspects of Job Quality

(Chair: Nina Pavcnik)

Lead discussants:

 

September 1: Morning Session

 

9.00-10.15

Theme 5: Labour Market Adjustment to Trade Reform

(Chair: Richard Newfarmer)

Lead discussants:
10.30-11.45

Theme 6: Trade, FDI and Skills/skill Upgrading

(Chair: Marc Muendler)

Lead discussants:
11.45-13.00

Theme 7: Trade and Labour Market Regulation/institutions

(Chair: Marcelo Olarreaga)

Lead discussants:

 

September 1: Afternoon Session

 
14.30-15.45

Theme 8: Trade, FDI and Bargaining Power of Workers

(Chair: Marco Fugazza)

Lead discussants:
15.45-16.15

Workshop report by rapporteurs

> Presentation

  • (Marc Bacchetta, Marion Jansen)
      
16.15-17.15

Closing discussion: Priority Themes for Future Research
  

17.15-17.45

Concluding remarks

  • José Manuel Salazar, Executive Director, Employment Sector, ILO

  • Alejandro Jara, Deputy Director General, WTO