We invite contributions from both senior and junior researchers that focus on the role of families in insuring individuals against downside risk. Potential topics include: - The role of households in insuring against income risk or health risk; - The trade-off between self-insurance of...

Key themes: Time Use during COVID-19; Time Use and Family Health Behaviors; Time Use and Gender; Behavioral Effects Time and Financial Stress; Sleep and Employment; Fatigue and Leisure Consumption; Sleep Deprivation Wellbeing; Employment and Time Use; Mental Health and Labor Market. Keywords:...

The focus in 2021 will be on gender economics and centered around the theme of this year’s UN International Women’s Day: "Women in Leadership". We invite contributions from both senior and junior researchers that focus on: - Executive women in the private and public sector - Women in...

The aim of the 2021 workshop of IZA's Environment, Health, and Labor Markets program area is to bring together researchers analyzing the impact of environmental factors and health policies on labor market outcomes, human capital outcomes, industrial activity, production decisions and demographic...

Barcelona Summer School 2020 has been cancelled.

The Barcelona GSE Labor Economics Summer School covers a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, this summer school offers courses that will cover recent developments within the macro-labor and micro-labor contexts. In each course, both theoretical...

In recent years an exciting economic literature has emerged that seeks to understand disparities in economic development across countries by going far back in history. Distant historical events can often be linked to long-lasting effects on institutions, culture, human capital and technology; in...

We aim at creating a forum of junior and senior experts to discuss cutting-edge research in the fields of economic growth and fluctuations (EGF). We do not want to limit the range of topics, but rather be broad and open to the best type of research conducted in the EGF field.

We encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical papers addressing issues including: - The causes and consequences of the spatial distribution of economic activity. - The evolution of economic geography in response to globalization. - The interaction between trade, geography and growth. -...

To expand the frontiers of global knowledge around jobs and advance the discussion on the most effective policies, we are interested in papers that focus on: - Increasing wage labor demand. - Creating jobs in the formal sector of the economy, including mobilizing capital for private sector...