During the financial crisis and the subsequent “great recession”, economists lamented the lack of policy guidance provided by standard economic models for a situation that didn’t seem to conform to classical theories of risk aversion. The prevailing view was that agents and policy makers...

The Program Committee invites submissions for about 20 presentations from academic researchers in all areas of labor market policy evaluation and methodological contributions from related fields.

AREA has pursued two missions: bringing recognition to the combined use of vocational rehabilitation and economic loss assessment as a distinct discipline, and providing a peer-exchange forum for vocational, economic and rehabilitation experts who practice within this growing field.

The policy summit will focus on housing, inequality, neighborhoods, and labor market issues, with special consideration given to research related to the foreclosure crisis. Topics of particular interest include labor mobility and housing lock-in, wealth and income inequality, housing and human...

Program: Session A: Family Issues Session B: Occupational Adjustment Session C: Employer Attitudes Session D: Remittances Session E: Culture and Identity Session F: Migration Flows Session G: Public Issues Session H: Crime and Culture Session I: Africa 1 Session J: Africa 2 Session K: Rural and...

Conference Schedule: CONFERENCE SESSION I - Labor Market Flows in the Cross Section and Over Time - Housing and the Labor Market: Time to Move and Aggregate Unemployment CONFERENCE SESSION II - Hours Worked Over the Business Cycle: Evidence from OECD Countries 1960-2010 - Transitions in the...

Conference Schedule: CONFERENCE SESSION I - Labor Market Flows in the Cross Section and Over Time - Housing and the Labor Market: Time to Move and Aggregate Unemployment CONFERENCE SESSION II - Hours Worked Over the Business Cycle: Evidence from OECD Countries 1960-2010 - Transitions in the...

This conference is being held in conjunction with the ASSA 2011 Annual Meeting. AFEE invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels on the topic of The Policy Relevance of Institutional Economics. As the second decade of the 21st century begins, nations across the globe face a...

The subject of the conference is "The Status of Economics after the Crisis". Social economics is devoted to research on the ethical foundations and implications of economic analysis and policy. We invite proposals for papers which address question such as: - Status of the discipline - Economic...

ISIR sessions at ASSA meetings Each year ISIR sponsors a session at the ASSA (Allied Social Sciences Associations) Meetings in January in the USA. Historically, these sessions had focused exclusively on the topic of inventories. From this year’s session, however, the focus have been expanded...