June 2009, No. 38

Annual Conference EALE 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.

Display Service Conference Tallinn

During the conference we have some display possibilities for EALE-members/conference participants for presenting or displaying things like new published books, research programmes etc.

This display area will be located close to  the coffee break areas. Please note that this opportunity is offered on a 'first come first serve' base. You should contact eale-sbe@maastrichtuniversity.nl for a reservation.

Election results EALE Executive Committee 2009

A total of 203 votes were received

Ana Rute Cardoso	152 votes
Ian Walker	123 votes
Åsa Rosén	99 votes
Simon Gaechter	90 votes
Stefano Scarpetta	79 votes

Sponsors

The Association is grateful for the financial support from:

 

                                         

 

17-19 June 2010

3rd World Conference EALE/SOLE

University College London

Deadline full paper submissions: 31st January 2010

Other Conferences - Call for papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd Conference on the     European Labour Market for Academic Graduates     22-24 October 2009, Maastricht University     The Bologna process is proceeding successfully. In half of the involved countries, all students are now doing courses that comply with the new Bachelor/Master (Ba/Ma) system, while the other countries are working hard to achieve the same level. In many countries, graduates with a Bachelor or Master degree are already a familiar phenomenon on the labour market. This means that we now have a situation in which empirical information becomes available that can provide insight in the integration of graduates from the new system in the labour market. A few years ago, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEBA) of Maastricht University (UM) initiated a conference in Maastricht on the European Labour Market for Academic Graduates (ELM) after the introduction of the Ba/Ma system. This conference was held from 19 to 21 October 2006. It was attended by more than 100 representatives from the worlds of education, business, government and research. With reference to the rapidly progressing Bologna process and the new labour market information becoming available now, but also the wide international interest shown in the 2006 conference and the lively discussions during that event, another European conference on the theme of higher education and the labour market will be organized: ELM 2009. The conference is scheduled to take place from 22 to 24 October 2009 in Maastricht. It will be organised by the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Maastricht University in co-operation with the Institute for Employment Research of the University of Warwick.  Conference Themes The conference will therefore need to provide greater insight into the developments in European higher education and the labour market, and the way in which higher education may contribute to strengthening the position of Europe in the world. The information, insights and visions provided should constitute the components for the foundation of further policy development regarding topics such as: ·    The reinforced world-wide competition for the highly talented and their acquired knowledge in higher education and its implications for the growing needs for higher educated in European labour markets and the intended strengthening of the European knowledge economy. ·    The design of Bachelor and Master studies that adequately meet both the preferences of the students in an emerging global market for higher education studies and the requirements of the labour market in a knowledge-driven economy. ·     The different types of collaboration between the business community and higher education in the fields of research and education, to fulfil the growing need for knowledge in enterprises and the need to maintain the available knowledge potential throughout one's working life.   ·     The necessity to adapt national variants of the new higher education system to the emerging international competitive relations in higher education and in the labour market. ·     The broadening of graduates’ career perspectives and the recruitment of the higher educated by small and medium-sized businesses. Postal address:   P.O. Box 616 NL - 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands Phone: + 31 (0) 43 388 5983 (Mr. Kim Willems) Fax: + 31 (0) 43 388 5981 e-mail: elm2009@fd.unimaas.nl

New Books

Economic Modeling and Inference
Bent Jesper Christensen & Nicholas M. Kiefer
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8903.html

Bent Jesper Christensen is professor of economics and management at the University of Aarhus in Denmark.
Nicholas M. Kiefer is the Ta-Chung Liu Professor in Economics and Statistical Science at Cornell University.
Princeton University Press 2009  £34.95
 

"The authors do a splendid job of showing how to use stochastic dynamic optimization techniques to generate the implied distributions of observables needed for estimation. There are many interesting and useful examples included in the book, ranging from applications of the theory of job search to those of asset pricing theory. This book should be a reference for anyone interested in using dynamic economic models to make inferences about the world we observe."-Dale Mortensen, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Northwestern University

EU Labor Markets After Post-Enlargement Migration
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. (Eds.)
http://www.springer.com/economics/labor/book/978-3-642-02241-8

Martin Kahanec is Deputy Director of Research and the leader of the research sub-area EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany.
Klaus Zimmermann is Full Professor of Economics at Bonn University and Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA Bonn).
Springer 2009 approx. € 99.95

 

Are immigrants from the new EU member states a threat to the Western welfare state? Do they  take jobs away from the natives? And will the source countries suffer from severe brain drain or demographic instability? In a timely and unprecedented contribution, this book integrates what is known about post-enlargement migration and its effects on EU labor markets. Based on rigorous analysis and hard data, it makes a convincing case that there is no evidence that the post-enlargement labor migrants would on aggregate displace native workers or lower their wages, or that they would be more dependent on welfare. While brain drain may be a concern in the source countries, the anticipated brain circulation between EU member states may in fact help to solve their demographic and economic problems, and improve the allocative efficiency in the EU. The lesson is clear: free migration is a solution rather than a foe for labor market woes and cash-strapped social security systems in the EU.

The EALE Executive Committee 2009

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
Simon Gaechter, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK (incoming)
Maia Güell, 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
Åsa Rosén, Stockholm University, SOFI,  Stockholm, Sweden (incoming)
Wiemer Salverda, AIAS, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Ian Walker, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, UK (incoming)
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
 

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