The aim of the conference is to build bridges between the trade union movement and the post- and de-growth community, and to situate a transformative just transition vision within the ‘beyond growth’ narrative. It should prompt reflection on how the (contested) concept of just transition and...

Labor productivity – real market output per unit of labor input - is a central measure of an economy's standard of living and stands at the intersection of macro and labor economics, relating phenomena as diverse as human capital formation, technological change, dynamics of and trends in the...

At this conference, experts from academia, trade unions and the European Commission will exchange perspectives on the impact of NextGenerationEU (NGEU) on national and EU social and labour policies. How different is this recovery strategy from the way the EU managed the 2011 euro crisis? What...

Having barely recovered from the successive waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, European economies are now facing another serious shock. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions that have followed have given rise to inflation rates unseen for several decades, driven primarily by higher...

The European Network for the Fair Sharing of Working Time’s biannual conference will address the possibilities of a four-day week in Europe, and what real working time reduction could look like. There will be three panel discussions. The first will look at best practice examples across Europe,...

Topics include (but are not limited to): - Innovative methods for policy evaluation (e.g. based on field experiments) - Labor market policies for low-skilled, youth and other disadvantaged unemployed groups/welfare recipients - Labor market policies that deal with the aftermath of the...

The workshop will bring together leading economists working on social security and disability insurance. The workshop will also be an opportunity to launch the research unit Analysis in Pension Economics (APE) of the Bocconi Baffi-Carefin research center. To foster the desired interaction, we...

Topics: - Job flows, the Beveridge curve and mismatch - Adjustment to new technologies and globalisation - Demographics: aging, female participation and migration - Wage adjustments - Resilience to shocks.

Topics: - Innovative methods for policy evaluation (e.g. field experiments) - Labor market policies for low-skilled, youth and other disadvantaged unemployed groups/welfare recipients - Policies to integrate refugees and migrants into the labor market - Relationship between labor market policies...

We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions. Research topics of particular relevance to the conference include the following: - Labour market effects of technological change and digitalisation, - Demand effects of technological progress across ages, genders and skills, - Skills...