December 2008, No. 37

Message from the President

The 2008 Amsterdam conference on September 18-20 was the 20th annual conference of EALE. Once again the conference was a great success, both intellectually and socially, as well as being extremely well organised. I would very much like to thank again all those involved with making it so. In particular the conference local organisers, Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink, Wiemer Salverda, Angelique Lieberton, Sebastiene Postma, the EALE secretariat and the programme chair Oddbjørn Raaum. They all put an enormous effort into making the conference an unforgettable experience for all who attended. For some impressions of this conference, click here.

During the conference there were a number of interesting talks. We were privileged to hear the key-note lecture presented by Gerard van den Berg on ‘Policy Discontinuity and Duration Outcomes’ and the 'Adam Smith' lecture by Kathryn Shaw entitled ‘Insider Econometrics: a Roadmap with Stops Along the Way’. We were also delighted to hear the first Presidential Address of EALE, given by the leaving President Alison Booth on the topic ‘Gender and Competition’. In addition to these talks we heard many other papers across a broad range of labour market topics, and at a consistently high standard.

The prize for the best article in EALE’s journal Labour Economics over the previous two-year period was awarded to Scott Carrell for his paper ‘The National Internal Labor Market Encounters the Local Labor Market: Effects on Employee Retention’. This paper appeared in Labour Economics, Volume 14, Issue 5, October 2007, Pages 774-787.

The Young Labour Economist prize was awarded to Martin Halla for his paper ‘The Effect of Joint Custody on Marriage and Divorce’, which he presented at the conference.

This was Alison Booth’s last conference as President and my first. I am extremely pleased and honoured to be the new President.  During the conference, we also welcomed three new members of the executive committee: Maia Guell, Kjell Salvanes and Thomas Dohmen. Thomas Dohmen is the new EALE secretary.

We owe a particular debt of gratitude to our leaving members: Andrea Ichino, Oddbjørn Raaum and Erling Barth. We are also grateful for the contribution of the leaving President Alison Booth and the leaving Secretary Hans Heijke. Alison Booth served 3 years as President. Hans Heijke has been the EALE secretary for 15 years. They both received an honorary EALE membership to express our gratitude for their enthusiasm and committed support for the smooth running of the association.

Next year’s conference will take place in Tallinn 10-12 September, 2009. In 2010, we will hold our 3rd joint world conference together with SOLE in London. The event will take place during 16-18 June.

I very much look forward to seeing you in Tallinn.

Stephen Machin 

Annual Conference 10 - 12 September 2009, Tallinn


Invited speakers: Marianne Bertrand | Pierre Cahuc

The EALE Conference 2009 will be hosted by the Olümpia Conference Centre,  on September 10th-12th, 2009. 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 top researchers are presenting and discussing their ongoing research.

The Conference will be organized by The  Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology and the Eesti Bank/Bank of Estonia.

The  Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu
The economic and business education was provided in Tartu University (established in 1632) already since 17-th century, but Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEBA) was established in 1938. Currently more than 1400 students are studying full or part time in FEBA including 65 doctoral students. The size of full-time academic staff is 56 persons. The faculty has made serious efforts to integrate into international research arena. Most important research topics include innovation studies, organisational culture and labour economics. Among the most recent publications of FEBA are collective monograph „Estonia, the New EU Economy. Building Baltic Miracle ?“ published by Ashgate in 2006 and „Labour Market Flexibility, Flexicurity and Employment. Lessons of the Baltic States“ by Nova Science 2007.

Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology
Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration (TSEBA) of Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) has been providing business education for more than 65 years. It was established in 1940 when the Faculty of Economics was transferred from the University of Tartu to Tallinn University of Technology (at that time Tallinn Polytechnical Institute). Today TSEBA with its approximately 2000 students is the second largest faculty of the university. TUT is also the Estonia’s largest business school teaching in three languages – Estonian, Russian and English. The teaching staff of 103 includes 40 PhD-s. The School is running one of largest international programmes in Estonia (BBA and MBA).

Eesti Bank/Bank of Estonia.
Eesti Pank is the central bank of the Republic of Estonia and a constitutional institution analysing and running the Estonian monetary system, i.e. the monetary policy of Estonia. The aim of monetary policy is to ensure a low and stable price rise and the best conditions for economic growth. The central bank is also responsible for the security and stability of the financial system. It has the sole right to issue the Estonian currency and bears responsibility for currency circulation along with maintaining the stability of the national currency.

CALL FOR PAPERS EALE 2009

Instructions paper submission
The electronic submission form is now open for your paper contribution and will close after the deadline of March 1, 2009 at 23:59 Central European time. The link below will lead you automatically through 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).

EALE will not consider more than two papers by an individual, either as submitting author or co-author. 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, 2009. The registration site will be open from May 1, 2009. 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 August 2009.

Special conference issue Labour Economics
Papers accepted for presentation can be submitted  for publication in the annual Conference Volume of the journal Labour Economics. Further information concerning submission rules and deadline regarding this procedure of a ‘Special Issue submission’, will be provided in the letter of acceptance.

EALE Young Economist Award
 The EALE grants an award of € 300 for an outstanding paper selected by a Scientific Committee, to researchers who have completed their Ph.D. fewer than 3 years before the end of September 2009. 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.

For questions, please contact us at

Submit paper and abstract here  

Labour Economics

Report September 2008 of the Editor in Chief

The following pages report statistics on the submission and reviewing process for the period December 15, 2003 – June 30, 2008 (c.a. 4.5 years during which I have been Editor in Chief). We received 1099 submissions of which 1083 were assigned to an editor. Of the 1083 assigned submissions, 93% received at least a first reply. Of the 1004 submissions receiving a first decision, 30% were immediately rejected, 50% were rejected after a review (average time to decision: 4.5 months), 10% were offered the possibility to revise and resubmit and are currently in the hands of authors (average time to decision: 4.6 months) while 10% were accepted after revision (average time to decision: 13.2 months). Only for 15% of the papers receiving a first reply this happened after more than 5 months.

The impact factor of Labour Economics has gone up in 2007 with respect to 2006 from 0.59 to 0.67.

Andrea Ichino

Find here the reports as printable PDF

 

Sponsors

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Other Conferences - Call for papers
 

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Twenty Third Annual Conference of the ESPE will take place on June 11-13, 2009, at Hotel Meliá Sevilla, Seville, SPAIN. 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.

Tim Hatton  (Australian National University, Australia) will serve as the program chair and Alfredo Ariza and José Ignacio García (University Pablo de Olavide, Spain) as the local organizers. The keynote speakers at ESPE2009 will be Bruno Frey (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Barbara Petrongolo (London School of Economics, UK). The presidential address will be given by Jan van Ours (University of Tilburg, The Netherlands

The conference will provide the opportunity to present papers. Papers and abstracts should be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form that we will link at the conference web page http://www.upo.es/econ/espe2009. ESPE2009 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, 2009. Acceptance decisions will be communicated in March. We particularly encourage graduate students to apply. Waivers of the conference registration fee will be provided for 10 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. ESPE wants actively to increase participation from East European countries. Presenters from these countries who are within ten years of having completed their PhD can apply for a 50% reduction in the registration fee. Information on conference location, registration, and hotel reservations will be available at the conference web page, http://www.upo.es/econ/espe2009

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

10 Years of the Euro: Adjustment in Capital and Labour Markets

7-8 of May 2009

School of Economics and Management

University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

The Economic Policies Research Unit of the University of Minho (NIPE) – Portugal - is organising a two-day conference, on the 7th and 8th of May 2009, on the topic "10 Years of the Euro: Adjustment in Capital and Labour Markets".

Developments in capital markets, namely, current account imbalances and financial integration, and labour markets rigidities have been among the most noticed difficulties some countries have been facing after adopting the Euro.

To discuss these issues, and the lessons that emerge from the analysis of the first 10 years of Economic and Monetary Union, we encourage you to participate in the conference by submitting a paper.

Paper submissions should be sent to nipe@eeg.uminho.pt, until February 28th 2009. Submitters will be notified about the status of their submissions by March 15th, 2009. To get an update on information regarding the conference please go to http://www3.eeg.uminho.pt/economia/nipe/euro10years/

 The Scientific Committee:
Ana Rute Cardoso, IAE, Barcelona
Francisco Veiga, University of Minho and NIPE
Konstantinos Tatsiramos, IZA Bonn
Mário Centeno, Bank of Portugal
Michael Ehrmann, European Central Bank
Ricardo Reis, University of Columbia, New York

The Organizing Committee:
Fernando Alexandre, University of Minho and NIPE
João Cerejeira, University of Minho and NIPE
Miguel Portela, University of Minho, NIPE and IZA
Dina Guimarães, University of Minho and NIPE

Economic Policies Research Unit - NIPE

6th Summer School - Braga, Portugal

Empirical strategies

By Joshua Angrist (MIT)

June 29 - July 2, 2009

The “Empirical Strategies” course covers topics in econometrics and empirical modelling that are likely to be most useful to applied researchers. The main theoretical ideas are illustrated with empirical examples, mostly coming from the recent literature on policy evaluation to which Professor Angrist has made numerous contributions.

Applications should arrive no later that April 30, 2009.
To know more about the Summer School, please follow the link:
http://www3.eeg.uminho.pt/economia/nipe/summerschool2009

We look forward to seeing you in Braga.

The Organizing Committee,
João Cerejeira [jccsilva@eeg.uminho.pt]
Miguel Portela  [mangelo@eeg.uminho.pt]
Dina Guimarães [nipe@eeg.uminho.pt]

 

Vacancies

The EALE Executive Committee September 2008

President: Steve Machin, Centre for the Economics of Education, University College London, London, UK
Secretary: Thomas Dohmen, ROA, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Treasurer: Ana Rute Cardoso, IAE-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

Members:
Michael Burda, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Danish National Institute of Social Research, Copenhagen, Denmark
Raul Eamets, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Maia Guell, University of Edinburgh, UK and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Stepan Jurajda, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Francis Kramarz, CREST-INSEE, Malakoff Cedex, France 
Adriana Kugler , University of Houston and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Houston, USA
Maarten Lindeboom, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink, Scholar, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Kjell Salvanes, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway
Regina Riphahn, University of Erlangen, Nürnberg, Germany
Wiemer Salverda, AIAS, University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

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