Bulletin Board

This is a selection of conferences, meetings and other events in the field of labour economics collected by the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE). If you wish to put your announcement on the bulletin board please send an e-mail to the EALE secretariat eale@maastrichtuniversity.nl

 

Call for Papers – Fifth IZA/World Bank Conference on ‘Employment and Development’ May 3-4, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa Deadline: November 15, 2009  and  Call for Papers – Special issue of LABOUR ECONOMICS on ‘Labour economics and labour markets in developing countries’ Submission deadline: November 15, 2009   While most research in labor economics focuses on the US and Western Europe, the majority of the world’s population and particularly of the poor and the youth live in countries where labor markets often work quite differently. To stimulate and promote research on employment and labor economics in developing countries, the World Bank and IZA initiated in 2006 a work program on “Employment and Development”. Since 2006, the annual conference on Employment and Development provides a platform for researchers and policy experts to discuss new research findings and identify areas where further work is needed. IZA and the World Bank will organize the 5th annual conference in Cape Town, South Africa on May 3-4, 2010.   The current global economic downturn has revealed again the key importance of well functioning labor markets for helping workers and their families to weather through the storm of job losses and declines in incomes. Many workers have lost their job around the world and many others have seen their incomes dropping substantially. While in industrialized countries income support schemes and effective re-employment policies help job losers and their families, in most developing countries such policies and institutions are under-developed or non-existent, though, leaving workers and their families fully exposed to the hardship of unemployment or working poverty. Further efforts at improving the coverage and support of labor market and social policies are needed in many developing countries. In addition, improvements in the functioning of the labor market can also go a long way in ensuring a quicker and better pathway out of the downturns and into sustainable growth by contributing to an environment where new firms are created and private agents find the proper incentives to invest and innovate. Parallel sessions in all areas of labor economics will be organized, and we invite you to submit your contribution by November 15, 2009. We invite submissions of papers on labor markets, job creation and labor market policies in developing countries. Contributions on Africa and/or by Africans are particularly welcome. Decisions will be made in January 2010. We will consider detailed abstracts, but will favor full papers, particularly empirical ones. All presenters at the parallel sessions must arrange and fund their trip to South Africa but are offered three nights accommodation in Cape Town as well as meals during the conference, including the participation at the conference dinner. There are no conference fees. For enquiries, please contact Aslan Akay or Markus Frölich at development@iza.org Previous IZA / World Bank conferences have been held in Berlin, Bonn and Morocco and have attracted prestigious researchers and policymakers from a wide variety of developed and developing countries, including keynote speeches of Francois Bourguignon, Gary Fields, Richard Freeman, Santiago Levy, Jan Svejnar and Tarik Yousef. The theme of next year’s conference is ‘Recovering with good jobs’. The programs from these past events may be found online at: www.iza.org/conference_files/worldb2006 www.iza.org/conference_files/worldb2007 www.iza.org/conference_files/worldb2008 www.iza.org/conference_files/worldb2009 Please submit online before the 15 of November 2009 at: www.iza.org/development    Call for Papers – Special issue of LABOUR ECONOMICS on ‘Labour economics and labour markets in developing countries’ Submission deadline: November 15, 2009  Labour Economics, the Journal of the European Association of Labour Economists, wants to signal its interest in publishing more high-quality research on labor economics and labor markets in developing countries. While most labor economic research focuses on the US and Western Europe, the majority of the world’s population, and particularly of the poor, live in countries where labor markets often work quite differently. The journal wishes to promote and stimulate research on employment and, more generally, on labor economics in developing countries. To this end, a special issue on developing countries’ labour markets will be published by Labour Economics by the end of 2010. Lead articles will be provided by Gary Fields (Cornell) and Francis Teal (Oxford). Papers can be submitted to this special issue until November 15, 2009. (Please note that submission to this special issue is independent of the submission to the IZA/World Bank conference.) Go to http://ees.elsevier.com/labeco/default.asp and click on “submit paper”, enter your userid and password (or register to get these), click on “author login”, and then choose “Special issue: labour markets in LDC” from the drop-down list.  After November 15, any papers on developing countries labour markets can be submitted through the regular online submission using the instructions above and choosing “Full length article” in the drop-down list.

 

Econometrics of Healthy Human Resources    Call for Papers Rome May 27-29, 2010               Deadline: December 28, 2009  Keynote speech: Tor Eriksson (Aarhus School of Business)   Department of Applied Economics Université Libre de Bruxelles Organizing Committee: Guido Citoni (University La Sapienza, Rome), Benoît Mahy (University of Mons), Robert Plasman (University of Brussels), François Rycx (University of Brussels), Henri Serbat (AEA). Scientific Committee : Alex Bryson (NIESR, London), Ana Cardoso (IAE, Barcelona), Francesco Carlucci (University La Sapienza, Rome), Nabanita Datta Gupta (Aarhus School of Business), Emmanuel Dhyne (National Bank of Belgium), Tor Eriksson (Aarhus School of Business), Paul Kestens (University of Brussels), Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), David Marsden (London School of Economics), Michael Poole (Cardiff Business School), Lise Rochaix (HAS, Paris), Sébastien Roux (ENSAE, Paris), Patrick Sevestre (University of Paris I), Federico Spandonaro (University Tor Vergata, Rome), Ioannis Theodossiou (University of Aberdeen), Till von Wachter (Columbia University). TOPICS: Human Resources and Health. Health and education. Education to health. Health and training. Health at, out of, and after work. Human Resources Practices and the Labour Market HRP, labour productivity and performance. HRP, job attractiveness / satisfaction and healt. HRP and employment. HRP and collective bargaining. HRP in health professions. HRP and risk management in health care institutions. Human Resource Management in a Changing World. HRM in changing economic situations. HRM under technology shocks. HRM in specific cultural and geographical contexts. HRM and demographic changes. HRM, changing values and perceptions. Human Resource Incentives. An Integrated Perspective. HRI and the role of compensation. Complementary or substitute HRI. Different sets of HRI and their various impacts. Trust versus monitoring. Human Resources, Labour Market Segmentation & Discrimination and Health. Segmentation & discrimination on the grounds of e.g. gender, race, age or lifestyles. Discrimination and health. Effectiveness and equity in health care. If you wish to submit a paper or an abstract concerning one of these topics, please send your proposal contribution through our web site www.aea-eu.org/2010Rome, and fill in the online submission form. Authors will be informed about the outcome of their proposal by February 28, 2010.  All necessary information on:       www.aea-eu.org/2010Rome

 

13th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics May 15- May 21, 2010 at Buch, Ammersee Lake, Germany call for papers The IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics was created in 1998, as an annual event taking place at the conference center of Deutsche Post World Net at the Ammersee Lake (near Munich) in Bavaria, Germany. The Summer School is supported by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the European Economic Association (EEA), the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), and the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE). The objective of the Summer School is to bring together a large number of PhD students and senior lecturers to study new areas in labor economics. Students have the opportunity to present their work and discuss ideas with established researchers in a relaxed and open atmosphere. The School is open to advanced graduate students from European universities, or Europeans studying abroad, engaged in the preparation of a doctoral dissertation or approaching that stage. Around 35 students will be selected, based on their preparation to participate in advanced study on the subject. Lecturers Pierre Cahuc (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris) “Culture, Institutions and Labor Market Performance” Petra E. Todd (University of Pennsylvania) “Methods for Policy Evaluation”  Funding Local expenses and traveling are covered. Application Applications to participate should be submitted by January 29, 2010, using the online submission form at http://www.iza.org/link/SUMS. Please submit your CV and an abstract for a potential presentation of your research work; a letter of support from your PhD supervisor must be sent before the deadline by regular mail to Konstantinos Tatsiramos (IZA, Schaumburg-Lippe-Str. 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany)

 

CALL FOR PAPERS ESPE 2010 The Twenty Fourth Annual Conference of the ESPE will take place on June 9-12, 2010, at Congress Center South Essen, Germany. Essen will be Cultural Capital of Europe 2010. The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labour economics, public economics, demography, and health economics. Examples of research topics are: human capital investment, gender issues, intrahousehold distribution, aging and social security, taxation, population and economic growth, domestic and international migration, income distribution and redistribution within and between generations, technological change and the environment. Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (University of Linz, Austria) will serve as the program chair and Christoph M. Schmidt and Thomas K. Bauer as the local organizers. The keynote speakers at ESPE2010 will be Alan Manning (London School of Economics) and Maristella Botticini (Torino and Boston University). The presidential address will be given by Tim Hatton (Australian National University and University of Essex). The conference will provide the opportunity to present papers. Papers and abstracts should be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form. ESPE2010 will also have poster sessions. Submissions for presentation should include an abstract and, when possible, the paper itself in pdf format (one single file, including tables and figures). Preference will be given to submissions that include a completed paper. Submissions for posters should include an abstract and if possible a paper. Please indicate on the electronic submission form whether you wish to present a paper or a poster. The submission deadline is February 1, 2010. Acceptance decisions will be communicated until March 27, 2010. We particularly encourage graduate students to apply. Waivers of the conference registration fee will be provided for 15 graduate students. It is necessary that students apply for the waiver in the on-line submission and that his/her supervisor confirms the student status. Information on conference location, paper submission, registration, and hotel reservations will be available at the conference web page, http://www.especonferences.org.

 

International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education Catanzaro, Italy June 14 and 15, 2010 Call for Papers The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers with interests in applied areas of economics of education and discuss recent advances. If you would like to contribute to this workshop by presenting a paper we invite you to submit an extended abstract or full paper (PDF or Word) through the workshop website www.iwaee.org by the 1st of March 2010. PhD students are encouraged to apply and should indicate with their submission whether they would be willing to present in a poster session. Contributions will be considered across education economics including: returns to education education and social mobility educational attainment and dropouts education finance and funding of schools, colleges and universities lifelong learning education, training, skills and labour market outcomes peer effects Keynote Speakers Christian Belzil (École Polytechnique, Paris) Hessel Oosterbeek (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Ian Walker (Lancaster University) Participants will have the opportunity to submit their paper to a special issue of the journal Education Economics For further details: contact@iwaee.org Local contact Giuseppe Migali (LU and UMG): gmigali@iwaee.org Organisers Colin Green (Lancaster University), Giuseppe Migali (Lancaster University and Università Magna Graecia), Michele Trimarchi (Università Magna Graecia)

 

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS "The Economic and Social Implications of Health and Safety at Work" Università Cattolica, Milan, 2 - 3 July 2010 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Harvey M. Brenner (University of North Texas and Berlin University of Technology) Maarten M. Lindeboom (Free University Amsterdam) The aim of the conference is to provide a better understanding of the economic implications of health at work, bringing together the contributions of different disciplines: economics, sociology, occupational health and epidemiology. Cross-cutting and/or cross-country contributions are particularly welcome. The following list of themes is meant as a non-limiting indication of options for paper submissions. The relationship between health and working conditions at the workplace The economic costs borne by the worker and the firm from adverse work-related health conditions The role of work-environment health and safety practices in relation to the productivity of the firm The overall impact of work-related health on a set of relevant outcomes for individual workers and their firms (such as injury rates, absenteeism due to health reasons and quits Occupational health and safety at work related to gender and age issues in light of the feminisation of the labour market and an ageing population The social and economic value of improvement of health at work and its contribution to the improvement of the quality of the job, job satisfaction and reduction of lost time at work Compensation for adverse working conditions . Health and safety at work indicators research Absenteeism and accidents at work SUBMISSION Contributors should submit a full draft paper in PDF format by 30 March 2010, to Ioannis Theodossiou (theod@abdn.ac.uk) and Claudio Lucifora (claudio.lucifora@unicatt.it). Decisions on acceptance will be announced by 30th April 2010. It is planned to publish selected papers from the conference programme as a special issue of a journal. Papers to be considered for selection must be delivered in finalised form at the conference, with the full text submitted by 1 August 2010. FEES AND REGISTRATION Participation fee (meetings, access to papers, lunches and conference dinner): £ 150 (£ 80 for PhD students). Please use the following payment and registration facility at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/haw/. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Ioannis Theodossiou and David McCausland (University of Aberdeen) and Claudio Lucifora and Elena Cottini (Università Cattolica Milan). LOCAL COMMITTEE Americo Cicchetti, Elena Cottini, Claudio Lucifora and Severino Sterpi (Università Cattolica Milan). SECRETARIAT Ms. Daniela Archetti, IEIL, UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE, LARGO GEMELLI 1 - 20123 MILANO - Phone: +39.02.72342976, Fax: +39.02.72342781 - E-mail: ist.eil@unicatt.it<mailto:ist.eil@unicatt.it> HEALTHatWORK website: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/haw/

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