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...

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...

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...

Topics of the workshop: - The formation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in early childhood and adolescence; - Measurement of preferences and skills using survey instruments and experiments; - Malleability of preferences and cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and their rank order...

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...

This second IZA/Higher School of Economics workshop will bring together labor economists who are working on labor market adjustment in the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Central Asian former Soviet Republics and China. While the main focus of the workshop is on the specified topic,...

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...

The 13th EIASM Workshop aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the concerned field by fostering reflections and “prognoses” on Intangibles, Intellectual Capital and Integrated Reporting and Governance and, thus, to favour an osmosis between knowledge creation and knowledge...

Main topics: - The Robustness of Globalization Theory. Trade Liberalization and its Benefits; - Globalization, Inequality and Social Inclusion; - The United States and the Protectionist option: a New Trade Deal?; - How Scary is Disruptive Technology? Perspectives on Employment; - The Upcoming...