Driven by our vision and strategy on sustainability and continuous change, the theme for the BAM 2023 conference is “Towards Disruptive Sustainability: New Business Opportunities and Challenges”. We use the provocative term ‘Disruptive Sustainability’ purposefully. While the debate on...

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals confronts us with the need to re-imagine the purpose of business. We are increasingly aware that reaching Net Zero will require fundamental transitions both in the way we live and our economy. There is a world of difference between the structure of...

The Symposium will consist of plenary sessions along with methodology clinics, as well as opportunities to receive impartial expert advice on your research through either Research Conversations or Student Paper Presentation sessions led by senior academics from within the community.

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:...

Theme: Recovering from Covid: Responsible Management and Reshaping the Economy In 2021, the 35th Conference and 2nd BAM Conference in the Cloud, will critically engage with the socio-economic recovery from the global Covid-19 pandemic. Consumers, producers, frontline workers, managers,...

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...

Population aging brings new challenges for the organization of labor markets regarding how social care for frail older individuals should be delivered and financed. This presents an opportunity to increase employment in the caregiving sector, but it also has strong implications for the health...

Topics: - The effects of the adoption of managerial strategies and workplace practices on wages and other business outcomes; - The effect direct and indirect employee involvement on business outcomes; - The interplay between the adoption of general management practices and bundles of workplace...

Submissions in all areas of gender and family economics are welcome. Topics: - Children's development: health, education, capability (cognitive and non-cognitive) - Theoretical models on parenting and related family decisions - Evaluation of policies with respect to children - Consequences of...