Call for
Papers – Special conference issue of
LABOUR ECONOMICS
(only for paper presenters
EALE/SOLE conference)
Submission
deadline: August 31, 2010
We were impressed by the
quality of the papers that we listened to at the
EALE/SOLE conference last week. We hope that you
also found the conference interesting and that
comments on your paper were useful.
Members of EALE will know
that presenters (including posters) at the EALE
conference are invited to submit their papers to
the Labour Economics conference issue. This year
we extend the invitation to SOLE presenters too.
We hope that you will take
advantage of this opportunity - since your paper
has already been selected into the conference
you will stand a greater chance of publication
than you would in a regular submission (where
the acceptance rate is around 15%). If we get
the response that we hope for the publisher is
happy to make this a “bumper” issue.
The deadline for
submissions is AUGUST 31, 2010 (extended from
mid July). You will get referee reports in
November 2010 to enable revisions to be made and
resubmitted by March 2011, and the volume will
be published in AUGUST 2011.
Moreover, if the guest
editor (David Jaeger) feels that the paper has
merit but doesn’t feel that any problems can be
fixed in time for the conference issue he will
refer it and the reports to the Editor in Chief
(Ian Walker) for consideration as a revise and
resubmit for the regular issues of the journal.
We hope that you will
consider the conference volume as an excellent
vehicle for publishing your conference paper.
The impact factor (cites per paper) of Labour
Economics continues to rise, both relatively and
absolutely, despite the increasing size of the
journal and increasing competition from
elsewhere. And we know that papers in the
conference paper are, on average, even more
frequently cited than papers in the regular
issues. We are continuing the tradition of
publishing the Adam Smith (van Reenan) lecture
and the EALE Presidential (Machin) address paper
will surely generate lots of attention to this
year’s issue – and we are extending invitations
to Shimer and Blundell.
When
you are ready to submit please go to
http://ees.elsevier.com/labeco/default.asp,
where you will be expected to login as an
“author”; then click on “submit paper”. – If you
don’t have an Elsevier login or have forgotten
it then click on the “home” link where you will
find instructions on how to get one as a new
user or a reminder for users already registered.
Once you are logged in, click on “submit new
manuscript” and, in the drop-down list, choose
“EALE 2010 Special Issue”. THIS IS VERY
IMPORTANT AS OTHERWISE YOUR SUBMISSION WILL BE
CONSIDERED FOR A NORMAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL.
You will need to enter a
title, upload a cover letter, an abstract and
the manuscript (as Word, tex or similar – not
pdf) and if necessary any other files eg.
figures. The system will then compile all of
these into a pdf for submission. There is also
link provided to a “guide for authors” that is
visible throughout the process.
Warm regards,
David Jaeger (Conference
volume editor)
Ian Walker (Editor in Chief)
