Research Assets List
Other publication - Working Paper
Adopting green measures in exporting firms: what are the effects on labour market outcomes?
Published 2024
This study contributes to the literature on the relationship between trade, labour and environmental sustainability by providing empirical evidence at the firm level. For this purpose, it first explores whether exporting firms are more likely than non-exporting firms to adopt green measures. Second, it assesses how labour market outcomes such as productivity, wages, education level of workers, and training provided by firms may vary between green exporters and firms that do not engage in trade or undertake green measures. The study finds that exporting firms have a significantly higher probability of adopting green measures than do non-exporting firms. In addition, on average, among exporting firms, those that implement green measures tend to have higher levels of productivity, pay higher wages, offer more training and have a similar share of workers with a university degree in comparison with exporters that do not implement green measures. However, the gain in labour productivity associated with exporting and the adoption of green measures does not seem to translate into higher wages in lower-middle-income and upper-middle-income countries; it only does so in high-income countries.
Book
Published 2023
Book
Published 2023
This first volume develops and executes a comprehensive framework for assessing the impact of trade on the labour market, using a set of decent work indicators applied to commonly used methodologies. It also highlights the role of labour market policies and programmes, including ILO interventions, to ensure that trade contributes to – rather than hampers – decent work.
Book chapter
Published 2023
Integrating trade and decent work. Volume 2. The potential of trade and investment policies to address labour market issues in supply chains, xviii - xxiv
Book chapter
Trade and decent work in Viet Nam: insights from small and medium-sized enterprises
Published 2023
Integrating trade and decent work, 1 online resource (183-206 p.) : - 1 online resource (183-206 p.) :
This chapter the authors explore the links between exporting and importing in small and medium-sized enterprises and several decent work indicators in Viet Nam. Using micro data and techniques, it finds that trade is positively associated with the presence of written formal contracts, social protection coverage represented through insurance for healthcare, unemployment benefits and sick leave.
Other publication - Working Paper
Multinational enterprises and social protection: a case study of the L’Oréal Share & Care Program
Published 2019
Explores first how CSR initiatives can support the objective of extending social protection. Then, on the basis of privately held data provided by L’Oréal, it analyses whether the implementation of the program has led to any changes in the benefits provided by L’Oréal firms in different countries. Finally, it explores the links between two indicators related to firm performance (turnover and absenteeism) and the different elements of the program based on quantitative methodologies. The analysis is limited based on data availability; thus, the paper makes some suggestions about how the effects of the program could be better evaluated with access to more specific indicators.
Teaching manual/handbook
Manual de evaluación de las disposiciones laborales en acuerdos comerciales y de inversión
Published 2017
Las disposiciones laborales han pasado a ser un componente habitual de los acuerdos comerciales y presentan un ámbito de aplicación cada vez más amplio. El presente Manual proporciona información práctica y accesible, en un formato destinado a un público no especializado en la materia, sobre los distintos enfoques relativos al contenido y los mecanismos de aplicación de las disposiciones laborales (incluyendo cooperación técnica y diálogo). El Manual presenta distintos casos de estudio enfocados en la implementación de las disposiciones laborales, sus efectos y desafíos. Asimismo, se enfatiza la importancia de la participación de las partes interesadas en la aplicación de dichas disposiciones. Finalmente, el Manual explora otras áreas relacionadas con el comercio y el trabajo, tales como las cadenas globales de suministro, la responsabilidad social corporativa y las consideraciones de género en los acuerdos comerciales.
Teaching manual/handbook
Handbook on assessment of labour provisions in trade and investment arrangements
Published 2017
Labour provisions have become more commonplace in trade agreements and increasingly comprehensive in their scope. The Handbook provides practical information in a format geared towards non-specialist audiences focusing on different approaches regarding the content and implementation mechanisms of labour provisions (including technical cooperation and dialogue). In this regard, the Handbook presents different case-studies, with particular focus on implementation of the labour provisions, specific effects, and challenges. Particularly, it emphasizes the importance of stakeholders’ involvement in the implementation of the provisions. In addition, the Handbook explores other areas related to trade and labour, such as global supply chains, corporate social responsibility provisions in trade agreements and gender considerations.
Report
Assessment of labour provisions in trade and investment arrangements
Published 2016
Nearly half of trade agreements concluded in the past five years included either a labour chapter or labour provision that makes reference to international labour standards and ILO instruments. The evidence so far suggests that labour provisions have been an important tool for raising awareness and improving laws and legislation with respect to workers’ rights, increasing stakeholder involvement in negotiation and implementation phases, and developing domestic institutions to better monitor and enforce labour standards. But challenges remain, particularly with respect to sustainability of impacts, coherence, and cooperative efforts. This report, part of the Studies on Growth with Equity series, gives a full examination of the scope and effectiveness of these labour provisions.
Conference paper
Multidimensional Determinants of Welfare and Inequality: The Role of Employment
Published 2014