The main objectives of SRSA are to foster the exchange of ideas and to promote studies focusing on regional topics and issues and utilizing tools, methods, and theoretical frameworks specifically designed for regional analysis as well as concepts, procedures, and analytical techniques of the...

The aim of the Conference is to present and discuss recent research on cultural traits, beliefs and social norms and how they affect the functioning of institutions and legal systems. Topics: • Economics and Econometrics of Interactions • Cultural diversity and discrimination • Political...

Suitable research topics for paper submissions include the following: - The structure of wages, in particular differentials across countries, regions, sectors, skill, gender and age and the impact of recent economic shocks on such differentials - More generally, issues relating to the dispersion...

Plenary sessions will be organized around regional resilience and sustainable development, given the challenges facing New Orleans since Katrina and now the Gulf oil spill.

Paper proposals are invited in any area of labour economics.

Paper proposals are invited on any aspect of urban and regional economics.

Theoretical and empirical contributions to regional analysis and related spatial and area studies are welcome. Given the location, we are also very interested in studies of cross-border issues.

In Europe, the past decade has been marked by relatively strong employment growth, while labour productivity and labour shares have experienced a decline in a number of countries, in particular in the euro area. Understanding the patterns, sources and implications of employment dynamics is...