WID.world was initially created as the The World Top Incomes Database in January 2011. Thanks to the contribution of over a hundred researchers, the project expanded to include series on income and wealth inequality for more than thirty countries, spanning over most of the 20th and early 21st...

The Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) is being founded to promote research and cooperation in Labour and Applied Economics across Asia and Australasia. The inaugural conference of the AASLE aims to bring together researchers from around the world and will be hosted by...

The Australian Labour Market Research (ALMR) Workshop is an annual conference designed to disseminate high quality research on labour economics and labour relations and to promote informed debate among economists and the government sector about current issues facing the Australian labour market.

The workshop will bring together leading economists from central banks and academic institutions to consider critical issues related to policy coordination between instruments and between countries. The financial crisis and the ensuing slow recovery brought to the forefront policy coordination...

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers analyzing wider labor market impacts of the digital economy, i.e. how these technological changes have directly and indirectly affected the world of work, in particular labor productivity. We encourage submissions of papers that provide...

Immigration is a major aspect of globalization and is increasingly at the center of the public and policy debate. This course aims to present the cutting-edge research on the economics of migration and to provide the tools to contribute to this field. The course is divided in 3 parts: - The...

The Policy Evaluation programme presents recent developments in the microeconomic analysis of impact evaluation, with two courses taught by experts in their fields. Providing a credible estimation of a causal effect has become a standard in economic analysis, both in research papers and policy...

The Winter School will provide an opportunity for PhD economics students, early career academics and professional economists to learn about new techniques in the evaluation of public policy. The Winter School will explore the application of economics to public policy and how natural experiments...

The program will include several sessions covering the main areas of International Macroeconomics and Financial Econometrics. Sessions and covered topics: - International macroeconomics (Exchange rates, exchange-rate regimes, international monetary system; Economic growth, business cycles and...

Conference Programme: Thursday 16th March. Day 1: Inequality and Living Standards in the Long Run. Friday 17th March. Day 2: Inequality and Living Standards (mainly) in Australia.