A very important question for those concerned with job precarization is whether and how this phenomenon is impacted by globalization and more specifically by international trade. A key hurdle has been the absence of a well organized dataset of the labor provisions included in trade agreements. This would allow not only for a cleaner identification of the effects of trade but also for an estimation of the impact of the labor provisions. Fortunately, the International Labour Organization recently made available a dataset of this type. It covers more than 100 trade agreements and 140 countries! You can find more about the typology used here, about the dataset here, and in the video below.