The 19th annual Conference will take place on September 20-22, 2007, at the Blindern Campus at the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. This meeting will be organised by the Department of Economics of the University of Oslo, the Institute for Social Research and the Frisch Centre.

The aim of the conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields in Labour Economics. You are invited to submit papers for this conference according to the list of themes below. A scientific committee will evaluate all submitted papers.

Special conference Issue Labour Economics
Papers accepted for presentation can be submitted again for publication in the annual Conference Volume of the journal "Labour Economics" edited in 2007 by Professor Claudio Lucifora. Further information concerning submission rules and deadline regarding this procedure of a ‘Special Issue submission’, will be given in the letter of acceptance.

The electronic submission form is now open for your paper contribution and will close after the deadline of March 1, 2007. The link below will lead you automatically trough the electronic process of the paper submission. To each paper an abstract must be added. Both your abstract and complete paper can be submitted during the electronic submission process. The abstracts of the accepted papers will be published in a Book of Abstracts. Please complete all the required fields and enclose your complete paper as one pdf file (no tables, figures etc. as separate files). You will receive a confirmation e-mail message after your registration has been completed. If you are not receiving this message or you receive an empty message then please contact us at

Acceptance decisions will be communicated by the end of April, 2007. The registration site will be open from May 1, 2007. The accepted papers will be made available for downloading from the conference site. Your paper revisions can be uploaded anytime and should be sent to the EALE secretariat before 15 September 2007.

EALE Young Economist Award
The EALE grants an award of € 300 for an outstanding paper selected by the Scientific Committee by researchers who have completed their Ph.D. less than 3 years ago. Only single-authored papers are eligible for the award. If you meet the eligibility conditions and wish to be considered for the award, please tick the corresponding box on the submission form.

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List of Themes and JEL-Codes:

1. Family and work (D13, J12, J13, J16)

2. Discrimination (J7, J16, J42)

3. Retirement and early exit (J14, J26)

4. Labour market policy (E64, J18, J23,J38, J58, J65, J68)

5. Labour supply (H2, J21, J22)

6. Labour demand and employment (J21, J23)

7. Occupational choice and mobility, professional labour markets (J24, J44, J62)

8. Education (J24, J31, I2)

9. Training (J24, J31, I2)

10.  Health and job satisfaction (I18, J28)

11.  Wage inequality and mobility (J31)

12.  Personnel economics (J32, J33, M5, M12)

13.  Internal labour markets and labour relations (J41, J49)

14.  Unions, bargaining and conflict resolutions (J51, J52)

15.  Microeconomics of unemployment (J63, J64, J65, E24)

16.  Macroeconomics of unemployment (J63, J64, J65, E24)

17.  Migration (F22, J61, J62, R23)

18.  Regional labour markets (J43, R23, R58)

19.  Labour markets in transition economies (P2, P3)

20.  Welfare, income distribution and poverty (D3)

21.  Working hours (J21, J22, J23)

For more information about the JEL classification system see: http://www.aeaweb.org/journal/elclasjn.html 

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