Economists typically view personality, attitudes and preferences as central determinants of decision making. While there is a consensus that heterogeneity in personality traits and preferences is an important driver of socio-economic outcomes, the emergence and development of personality traits...

While often a regional or national approach has been used to analyze the economic effects of migration, recent evolutions have shown that the role of firms is extremely important in better understanding this phenomenon. On many occasions, it is firms choosing the migrant workers and initiating...

ERWIT is an annual workshop that brings together international economists from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. The workshop disseminates the findings of recent research on international trade, and presentations often involve exploratory rather than finished papers. We...

The workshop aims at bringing together junior and senior economists to present and discuss their ongoing research on human capital. We particularly encourage topics related to both the functioning of the education system and the role of accumulation of knowledge, skills and ability in the labor...

ERWIT is an annual workshop that brings together international economists from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. The workshop disseminates the findings of recent research on international trade, and presentations often involve exploratory rather than finished papers. The...

Conference theme: "Lessons from Covid-19. A stronger EU: Staying together in a new policy space" Topics: - Inequality and pandemic; - Global Supply Chains, pandemic and trade - Monetary and fiscal policies in the post Covid-19; - The unequal impact of Covid on workers. Skills, automation and...

The Spring school is targeted to PHD students and post-doc researchers from all over Europe. The activity will improve the exchange of knowledge between leading scholars and your doctoral students who have the opportunity to collect information and new analytical/theoretical/methodological...

Topics: - Globalization (Sharing globalization benefits and compensate the losers; Demographic Changes, social inclusiveness and migration; Protectionism and welfare in a globalized world; Declining labor shares and technological change; Skills polarization and wages), - Trade (Trade and...

The focus of the school is on how changes in the occupational structure, the labour market and employment relationships affect the life chances of different socio-economic groups such as youth, women, the working class or migrants. A limited number of doctoral students and young researchers will...

Topics of the workshop: - Measurement of preferences and personality traits using survey instruments and experiments - Malleability of preferences and personality traits, and their rank order stability - Preferences and personality traits as driving factors of selection into labor market states...