Our goal in setting the conference theme and establishing the theme tracks is for the Society to explicitly address if we are missing economically and socially important phenomena. This will enhance our awareness of potential biases in our scholarship and biases within the general discourse of...

The purpose of the 2019 workshop of IZA's "Labor Statistics" program area is to bring together senior and junior researchers to discuss their recent empirical research related to contract work. We particularly encourage submissions of papers that present new evidence on: - The prevalence of and...

To expand the frontiers of global knowledge around jobs and advance the discussion on the most effective policies, we are interested in papers that focus on: - Increasing wage labor demand. - Creating jobs in the formal sector of the economy, including mobilizing capital for private sector...

A number of developments in executive research and practice make it pertinent to address these topics: - The proliferation of research on executive traits and values creates a need to aggregate knowledge and craft a path for future research before the field becomes too fragmented. - Scholars and...

The EcoMod School will offer intensive five-day courses in the international capital of the USA. The following courses will be offered: - Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) Modeling Step-By-Step - Practical General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS

Going into its 15th edition this year, the IZA Annual Migration Meeting aims at bringing together junior and senior migration researchers to discuss their most recent work in a constructive atmosphere. We encourage submissions on all topics related to the economics of migration.

Workshop program: - Gender and High Skill - Household Bargaining - Political Empowerment - Gender in Economics and Academia - Gender Issues in Developing Countries - Policy and Labor Supply - Mothers in the Labor Market - Crime and Risky Behaviors - Gender Wage Gap - Education and Gender

The EcoMod Modeling School will offer 2 intensive five-day courses in the international capital of the USA. Since the courses are run simultaneously, participants can only choose one course for this period. The following courses will be offered: - Practical General Equilibrium Modeling with...

The theme for the 2017 SMS Annual Conference, “Unconventional Strategies for Emerging Complexity and Intensifying Diversity,” embraces these challenges and the types of unconventional (i.e., unusual, avant-garde, exceptional, against-the-grain) strategies that might be used to address them.

The EcoMod Modeling School will offer 2 intensive five-day courses in the international capital of the USA. Since the courses are run simultaneously, participants can only choose one course for this period. The following courses will be offered: - Practical General Equilibrium Modeling with...