The Covid-19 pandemic has touched everyone in some way, but many of its impacts have been disproportionately felt by women: Job losses and care burdens, for example, have fallen on women relatively more than men. Two years after the pandemic began, and as countries increasingly move toward...

The conference welcomes academics, as well as corporate or government economists. The conference theme: Global Economy after 2020: Emerging Economies, Growth and Population. - Plenary Session 1: " Emerging Economies " - Plenary Session 2: " Growth and Population in Emerging and Advanced Economies "

Topics of the workshop: - The formation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in early childhood and adolescence; - Measurement of preferences and skills using survey instruments and experiments; - Malleability of preferences and cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and their rank order...

We invite theoretical and empirical contributions, from various methodological perspectives and alternative theoretical paradigms, in all areas of economic research that are of relevance to South Asia. This may include (but not limited to): - Political economy of development in South Asia. -...

This second IZA/Higher School of Economics workshop will bring together labor economists who are working on labor market adjustment in the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Central Asian former Soviet Republics and China. While the main focus of the workshop is on the specified topic,...

The themes for the 59th ISLE Annual Conference are: - Informality, Labour Market and Employment - Macro-Economic Policies and Employment - Technological Change and Employment

Papers are invited in the following theme areas: - National Accounts; - Productivity; - Poverty and Inequality; - Human Capital and Education; - Regional Integration and Global Value Chains; - Well-being, including Health, Food Security and Hunger; - Labour market, Skills and Jobs; - Structural...

Authors are invited to submit original papers addressing areas including, but not limited to, the following: - Promising practices or policies in schools or work places to promote the employability of youth, particularly of less-skilled youth. - Identifying policies or practices that work as...

Program: Keynote Speeches: - David Neumark (Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, and IZA) "Age Discrimination Laws and Age Discrimination in the United States" - Juan F. Jimeno (Head of the Research Division of the Bank of Spain and IZA) "What/How Dismissal Regulation...

The following issues will be addressed: - Agricultural practices that increase the availability of food for poor people, e.g. production for domestic use; land reform, reduction of post-harvest losses; strengthening peri-urban agriculture; sustainable productivity increase, etc. - Policies for...