Conference Programme: Plenary A: Growth for jobs or jobs for growth? Plenary B: Is there a trade-off between competitiveness and quality jobs? Plenary C: Is the rise in inequality here to stay? Plenary D: The future of jobs – is unemployment inevitable? Plenary E: Conference closure – is...

The conference will bring together leading scholars and young researchers to discuss recent theoretical and empirical research. We welcome contributions from all areas of international trade, in particular on topics related to inequality and labor markets.

Regional disparities in unemployment and wages are large, often persistent, and presumably not efficient. To what extent is it due to a range of frictions (search-matching frictions, lack of labor mobility,...), imperfect competition or discrimination? Is the functioning of the housing market...