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...

We invite contributions (papers and presentations of projects) that provide solutions to the following challenges and questions: - Most people in developing countries are dependent on the agricultural and informal sectors. We question whether employment creation should concentrate on these...

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...