The workshop will focus on the realities of Asian societies in terms of ongoing changes in labour market transitions and, more generally, over the life course. It is open to all and has as its overall objective to exchange knowledge and build capacity on policy design for managing transitions in...

How important is a relationship with a bank to a firm’s performance and survival? If firms can easily switch among different sources of credit supply, then the loss of any one source may have little implication for the firms that have borrowed from that source. However, to the extent that...

The Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the Virtual Workshop “Towards Sustainable Growth” to be held via Zoom on 10 December 2021. RIDGE invites authors to submit papers to the Workshop. The idea is to create a forum...

Topics: - Role of government regulation, trade and investment agreements for sustainability; - Impact of GVC participation on sustainability, such as distributional aspects, environmental performance, or labour conditions; - Sustainability in non GVC firms or upstream suppliers (e.g., informal...

Conference program (among others): Session 1: Resilience and Building Forward Better –The European Perspective; Session 2: Resilience for Sustainable Development; Session 3: Panel Discussion on Fostering Resiliencein Sustainable Development Policy-Making-Integrating Perspectives.

Topics: - Unemployment, labor supply and labor demand; - Inequality, poverty and discrimination; - Evaluation of labor market institutions and policies; - Wages and productivity; - Occupations; - Education, qualification and job tasks; - Gender and family; - Migration and international labor...

Topics to be discussed include but are not limited to: - Empirical behavior of gross and net flows and the labor market stocks; - Flows of workers versus jobs; - Cross-country relationships between labor flows and macroeconomic variables; - The role of labor market policies for labor market...

Topics : - Gender norms, institutions and labour market outcomes; - Family formation and dynamics; - Female labour force participation; - Women's economic, social, and political empowerment. Due to the current situation, the conference is designed exclusively as an online workshop, taking place...

Program: Panel 1: Keynote: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Labor Migrants: Accentuation of Inequalities. Panel 2: What Makes a Politician an Expert on Colonial Labor? The ILO and the Concept of ‘Native Labor’. Panel 3: Debates on "Trafficking in Persons and Slavery" in Cameroon. Panel...

This year’s conference aims to discuss the sustainable supply of natural resource, ecosystem services, and trade-off and synergies in economic development and ecological conservation in China and the rest of the world. Internationally renowned scholars and policymakers will be brought together...