In cooperation with KOF/ETH Zurich, OECD and INSEE, CIRET will organise a 1 ½-day workshop on the measurement of output gap potential growth and productivity with a focus on how economic tendency surveys can improve the accuracy of the corresponding estimates in real time. Submissions on this...

The aim of the conference is to bring together policymakers and practitioners, international institutions, and leading academics to shed light on these issues from both practical and research perspectives, and draw robust and novel policy implications.

Financial systems play a vital role in boosting productivity growth by allocating resources efficiently and facilitating investment and innovation. But they are also prone to costly booms and busts, which can leave deep scars on the productive tissue of the economy. Indeed, in the aftermath of...

Topics include (but are not limited to): - Earnings inequality and workers’ well-being - Precarious versus stable jobs - Informality and job quality - Innovative ways to measure the quality of the work environment - The impact of early entry into the labor market on job quality - Gender...

Forum 2014, entitled Resilient Economies for Inclusive Societies, will be organised around three cross-cutting themes: Inclusive Growth, Quality Jobs, and Trust, exploring the multifaceted nature of resilience and how to now “bounce forward” in addressing economic, social, and environmental...

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...

Topics: - Dynamics of unemployment: How does unemployment, and particularly long-run unemployment, adjust to a slowdown in economic activity? Is there symmetry between upturns and downturns? Have these adjustment mechanisms changed in the current crisis environment? What explains variations of...

Paper proposals are invited in any area of labour economics.

The workshop organisers particularly welcome papers that address any of the following issues: - Adjustment of unemployment, employment and wages - The roles of reforms and polices in influencing labour market outcomes - Tools for analysing the labour market situation