B R E A D is a non-profit organization, founded in 2002, dedicated to encourage research and scholarship in development economics.

Industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology is the scientific study of the workplace. Rigor and methods of psychology are applied to issues of critical relevance to business, including talent management, coaching, assessment, selection, training, organizational development, performance, and...

African economies grew at an average rate of above 5% for over a decade now and the continent today contains most of the fastest growing economies in the world. While we celebrate the growth we are cognizant that growth alone is not sufficient to change the economic lives of most of Africa’s...

The African Finance Economic Association (AFEA) will organize AFEA and joint AFEA/NEA sessions at the Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) meetings in San Francisco, California, January 3-5, 2016. We are currently seeking papers on ISSUES ON AFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT including Youth...

PROGRAM: - "Competing for Labor through Contracts: Selection, Matching, Firm Organization and Investments" Orie Shelef (Stanford University), with Amy Nguyen-Chyung - "Discrimination and Worker Evaluation" Kevin Lang (Boston University), with Costas Cavounidis - "Statistical Discrimination and...

Program: Session A: Gender, Session B: Rural Labor Markets, Session C: Migration, Session D: Plenary Session on Labor Demand, Session E: Labor Market Structure 1, Session F: Labor Market Structure 2, Session G: Skills Training 1, Session H: Skills Training 2, Session I: Plenary Session on...

The first International FDZ Data User Workshop will bring together researchers and emerging scholars who work with German Social Security data in the network of Research Data Centers (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). Researchers will...

Conference organisers seek original research papers on the following (and other related) themes within the context of South-South development: - nature, structure and sectoral distribution of global capital flows - the role of international or regional financial institutions - labor market...

PANEL 1: RETIREMENT INCENTIVES PANEL 2: ASSET ACCUMULATION PANEL 3: HEALTH Panel 4: IMMIGRATION Panel 5: HEALTH REFORM AND RETIREMENT Panel 6: EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT Panel 7: SAVING BEHAVIOR