The purpose of this conference is to facilitate discussion of ongoing research which studies policy relevant questions related to labor economics. Reflecting the breadth of modern labor economics, the scope of relevant topics is broad, ranging from employment and compensation, immigration and...

Conference Tracks: - Business in society; - Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management: New Opportunities and Challenges; - Human resource development in a new reality; - International business and emerging markets; - Managing Diverse Talent in a Divided World; - Marketing: current trends &...

This conference has been cancelled.

The workshop intends to bring together researchers from the fields of migration and climate/disaster research. The submission of both theoretical and empirical papers is welcome. Preference will be given to papers studying the link between climate change/natural disasters and migration.

Over the past two decades, technological advances have facilitated an increasing international fragmentation of production processes. The academic literature has proposed several explanatory paradigms for this new form of trade. Some of these follow the lines of comparative advantage, while...

The original intention behind the ‘Doha Round’ of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was to promote the integration of developing countries into the world trading system. The collapse of the round in 2008 led to pessimism over whether the pursuit of such a ‘development-based’ agenda is...

Labor related issues have been studied in the economics profession from a number of different angles. The goal of the Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School is to cover a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, this summer school offers courses...

A new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is in the making: larger and deeper than most that have been signed earlier. Their focus has moved away from the elimination of tariffs to regulatory cooperation and a WTO-Plus agenda. At the same time, theoretical and empirical modelling...

The goal of the Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School is to cover a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, this summer school offers courses that will cover recent developments within the macro-labor and micro-labor contexts. In each course, both...

Labor related issues have been studied in the economics profession from a number of different angles. The goal of the Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School is to cover a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, the BLSS offers courses that will...