Annual Conference EALE 20 - 22
September 2007, Oslo
Conference programme
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The Department of
Economics of the University of Oslo is proud to announce that it will host the EALE
Conference 2007 on
September 20th-22nd, 2007. The event will bring together all those with
an interest in the field of labour economics. The annual conference
provides a meeting point where members and researchers are presenting
and discussing their ongoing research.
The Conference will be organized by the
Department of
Economics, University of Oslo,
Institute for Social Research, and the
Frisch Centre. The University of
Oslo is Norway's largest and oldest institution of higher education
founded in 1811. Today the University of Oslo has 30,000 students and
4,600 employees.
The Department of
Economics was founded by Professor Ragnar Frisch in 1932 as a
research institute under the name of the Institute of Economics. Today
it is the university department for teaching at all academic levels as
well as research in economics. It is greatly indebted for its proud
history to its Nobel laureates Ragnar Frisch and Trygve Haavelmo.
The Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research extends the research environment
of the department and adds to the applied research in economics at the
University of Oslo.
Institute for Social Research (ISF) was established as an
independent foundation in 1950. Ever since its foundation the institute
has been multidisciplinary in its orientation, today comprising research
within all of the social sciences, as well as history. Today ISF
provides one of the few social science fora outside the universities in
Norway which has not limited itself to the study of one single sector of
society.
The Ragnar Frisch
Centre for Economic Research is an independent research institution
founded by the University of Oslo. The Frisch Centre conducts applied
economic research in co-operation with the Department of Economics and
other units at the university, and supports education in economics.
Research project are conducted by the staff at the Frisch Centre, at the
University of Oslo and at other Norwegian and foreign research
institutions.
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The EALE 2007 conference
is organized by a partnership of the following
institutes:
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Institute for
Social Research
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The EALE 2007 Conference is financially
sponsored by:
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Norges Bank's Fund for
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Confederation of
Norwegian Enterprise
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Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions
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Norwegian Society of Chartered
Technical and Scientific Professionals |
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