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-sbe@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School (NEW!)  Applications are open already! The Barcelona GSE is offering the first edition of a Labor Economics Summer School (graduate level) this summer.  Details of the Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School: When: June 21-25, 2010. Where: Barcelona Graduate School of Economics Courses offered (graduate level): Determination of Wages (Derek Neal, Chicago), Incentives in Organizations (Ghazala Azmat, UPF), Labor Market Outcomes (Robert Shimer, Chicago), and Personnel Economics (Maia Güell, Edinburgh & UPF). On-line application: http://www.barcelonagse.ey/summer.php Application deadline: May 31, 2010. More details: http://www.barcelonagse.eu/Barcelona_Labor_Economics_Summer_School.html Further questions: Please do not hesitate to contact Maia Güell, Director of the BLSS (maia.guell at gmail.com).

 

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that the University of Turin, together with the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and  the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and with the collaboration of Laboratorio Revelli (LABOR), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (DIAL/IRD), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the World Bank, are launching a new Master of Science in Applied Labour Economics for Development at the Turin School of Development (ITC-ILO). This Master program is intended to prepare students and professionals from both advanced and developing countries to become experts in designing, analyzing and evaluating policies that place employment at the core of economic, social and development policy making. The degree will combine rigorous training in analytical and quantitative economic methods with an emphasis on what constitutes an appropriate policy, legal and institutional framework for employment and decent work in different development contexts. We very much hope that you and your colleagues find inspiration in the documents attached. For further information, please also visit our website www.itcilo.org/masters/maled

 

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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