EALE Newsletter

May 2010 No. 40

EALE/SOLE 3rd International Conference 17-19 June, University College London The Third International Conference of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) and the European Association of Labor Economists (EALE) takes place in London on June 17-19, 2010. This event will surely be one of the most well attended economics conferences of the year, and the best attended labor economics conference of the next five years. SOLE and EALE are the two most important organizations of labor economists in the world, based in the United States and Europe respectively. Even though each institution organizes its own annual conference, every five years they organize a joint international conference. This year the conference is hosted by University College London (UCL), which holds one of the world's top economics' departments. The current presidents of SOLE and EALE are both faculty members at UCL. Speakers at plenary lectures are some of the most distinguished economists in the profession. Furthermore the speakers at the invited sessions are world class experts in their fields. All this, combined with an extremely interesting contributed and poster session programme and the fact that the conference takes place in a city such as attractive and accessible as London, means that attendance at this event will be very high.  Follow the link for more details on this conference. Follow the link for more details on this conference. More details

Labour Economics Report of the Editor-in- Chief December 2009 The following pages report the statistics on the submission and reviewing process for the period December 15 2003 – December 31st 2009.  Over this period we received 1569 submissions: 227 in 2004, 206 in 2005, 239 in 2006, 279 in 2007, 292 in 2008 and 321 in 2009.  Out of the 97% that have received at least a first decision, our average response time is 2.9 months.  The acceptance rate remains at about 15%. The impact factor of Labour Economics has gone up from 0.59 in 2006 to 0.67 in 2007 and 0.9 in 2008.  Ian Walker Find here the reports as printable PDF

Election results EALE Executive Committee 2010 A total of 168 votes were received Uwe Sunde  115 votes Rudolf Winter-Ebmer  111 votes Alexandra Spitz-Oener  105 votes Tuomas Pekkarinen    81 votes Stepan Jurajda    65 votes

Sponsors The Association is grateful for the financial support from:

Report on 13th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics May 15 – May 21, 2010 IZA hosted the 13th European Summer School in Labor Economics, which took place May 15- May 21 at the conference center of Deutsche Post World Net at the Ammersee Lake (near Munich) in Bavaria, Germany. The Summer School counts on the institutional support of 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). Its objective is to bring together a large number of PhD students and senior lecturers to study new areas in labor economics. This year 36 students attended the event, presenting their work. Sixteen nationalities were represented, creating again a very colorful and productive international environment. Lecturers for this year’s Summer School were Pierre Cahuc (Ecole Polytechnique and IZA) and Petra Todd (University of Pennsylvania and IZA). Cahuc lectures concentrated on “Culture, Institutions and Labor Market Performance”, whereas Todd taught on “Method for Policy Evaluation”. Two members of the IZA Summer School Advisory Committee participated in the event. Nabanita Datta Gupta in representation of the European Association of Labour Economists and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer in representation of the Centre for Economic Policy Research

Other Labour Economics Events       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).

As of 2009 with Springer ZAF/Journal for Labour Market Research Editor-in-Chief of the bilingual journal: Joachim Moeller Interested in writing an article? Please submit your manuscript online READ FOR FREE this topical current article! Come and Meet Springer at EALE/SOLE 2010 June 17 - 19, in London/GB Our editor Mrs. Katharina Wetzel-Vandai will be happy to discuss your   publishing plans with you.

The EALE Executive Committee June 2010 President: Stephen 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 (outgoing) Louis Christofides, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus/University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada (incoming) Nabanita Datta Gupta, Danish National Institute of Social Research, Copenhagen, Denmark Christian Dustmann, University College London, UK Raul Eamets, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia (outgoing) Simon Gaechter, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK Maia Güell, University of Edinburgh, Edingburgh, UK and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Stepan Jurajda, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic (outgoing) Francis Kramarz, CREST-INSEE, Malakoff Cedex, France  Maarten Lindeboom, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (outgoing) Tuomas Pekkarinen, Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki Finland (incoming) Åsa Rosén, Stockholm University, SOFI,  Stockholm, Sweden Kjell Salvanes, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway Alexandra Spitz-Oener, Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany (incoming) Uwe Sunde, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland (incoming) Ian Walker, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, UK Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

Contribute to the Newsletter The EALE newsletter provides information on the association’s activities, within the association's framework. All members are kindly invited to use the EALE Newsletter to make announcements of events in the field of Labour economics. Please send all contributions to the EALE secretariat.  Deadline for copy for Issue No. 41 is 1 November 2010.  Previous issue of the EALE Newsletter: Newsletter 39

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