The economic shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s large-scale aggression against Ukraine are likely to reshape the science-policy interface with significant implications for net-zero goals, green growth, and sustainable development. The recent experience from the...

Theme of the Forum: “Inclusive solutions for the green transition: Competitiveness, jobs/skills and social dimensions”. Topics: - Competitiveness impacts of environmental policies, - Distributional consequences of environmental policies, - Green industrial policy, - Employment implications...

The Program Committee invites submissions for about 15 presentations from academic researchers doing program evaluation research on policy issues related to the labor market. Papers that include innovative approaches or methodological contributions are of particular interest. Topics: -...

We particularly encourage submissions of papers that provide good theory or empirical evidence on the following topics: - Technical progress over the long run and its labor market effects - Uneven adoption of ITC technologies across the OECD countries, and the impact on growth and labor...

Netspar invites contributions from all areas of Netspar’s research program. Topics of interest are: - Well-being and wealth of the elderly - Communication and choice - Work, pensions, housing and care - Savings, investments and insurance - Institutions, governance and solidarity - The labor...

Economic Growth - Gino Gancia (CREI and University Pompeu Fabra) This course consists of five three-hour lectures on topics in the area of economic growth and technological progress. A first goal of the course is to discuss different theories of economic growth and their relative merits in...

Labor Market Consequences of Globalization - Gordon Hanson (University of California at San Diego) Overview: The course will examine recent empirical and theoretical literature on the labor market consequences of international trade and foreign investment in advanced and emerging economies.

Topics of interest are: - Risk management during working life - Risk management during retirement years - The art of choosing - Supervision of fully funded pensions: solvency and transparency - Risk sharing and distribution among generations: full funding, pay-as-you-go, taxation - The labor...

Topics: - Mismatch of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in the labor market; - Cognitive and non-cognitive skills and labor productivity; - The evolution of cognitive and non-cognitive skills over the life cycle; - Policy interventions and the formation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills.

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...