• The full Program of the in-person & online Global GLO-JOPE Conference 2025, December 3-5 Bonn is available. 
• Here we list DAY II (Dec. 4 CET) for your last minute orientation.
• Time schedule given below is CET (Berlin). Check Time Zone Converter to orient yourself.
• To be able to participate, you need to have registered already in the respective Zoom Rooms listed below. Registration Links and instructions to read are provided HERE.

December 4, 2025. All sessions are CET Berlin.

8:30-10:30 Three parallel sessions

8:30 – 10:30 SCHOOLING in-person P-S1-1; ———- Zoom ROOM 1
— Chair: Ingo E. Isphording (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods & GLO)
— Moderator: Liwen Guo (The University of New South Wales & GLO)

• Antonio Di Paolo (Universitat de Barcelona & AQR-IREA). (12)
  Language of Instruction, Bilingualism, and Neighbourhood Quality: Do Local Language Skills Matter?
• Jaroslav Groero (CERGE-EI), Alena Bicakova. (122)
  Beyond Test Scores: The Effect of School Entry Age on Specific Cognitive Processes
• Antonia K. Entorf, Miriam Gensowski, Ingo E. Isphording (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)
  Mental Health Challenges Among Teachers: The Role of Occupation and Workplaces

8:30 -10:30 ENVIRONMENT in-person P-S2-1; ———- Zoom ROOM 2
— Chair: Shuaizhang Feng (IESR & Jinan University, JOPE Editor & GLO) 
— Zoom Moderator: Leena Bhattacharya (WageIndicator Foundation and GLO)

• Xiaoying Liu (University of Pennsylvania). (37)
  Air Pollution and Under-5 Child Mortality: Evidence from China’s Coal Power Plant Phase-out Policy
• Luca Buzzanca (Gran Sasso Science Institute) (90)
  Labor Market Effects of Climate Extremes: Evidence from Italian Agriculture
• Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO)
  Networking with GLO & the Handbook “Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics” project

8:30 – 10:30 GENDER I online-only; P-S3-1: ———- Zoom ROOM 3
— Chair: Matloob Piracha (University of Kent & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO)

• João Pereira dos Santos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) (79)
  Perceptions of (mis)behavior by gender: Evidence from the Catholic World Youth Day
• Nicholas A. Jolly, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos, Georgios Voucharas (Liverpool Hope University). (49)
  Business Closures, Labor Market Policies and Gender Gaps.
• Yujia Liu (University College London) (117)
  The Intergenerational Transmission in Female Labour Force Participation (FLFP): The Role of Gender Norms in Urban China.

10:30 BREAK

11:00-13:00 Three parallel sessions

11:00-13:00 GENDER II in-person P-S1-2; ———- Zoom ROOM 1
— Chair: Claudia Senik (Paris School of Economics & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO)

• Elghafiky Bimardhika, Daniel Halim (World Bank). (76-J)
  To have it all? Career and family choices of college-educated Indonesian women
• Christian Grund (RWTH Aachen University) (13-J)
  Conditional Gender Pay Gaps
• Natalia Danzer, Rachel E Kranton, Piotr Pawel Larysz, Claudia Senik (Paris School of Economics). (35)
  Gender Identity, Norms, and Happiness.

11:00 – 13:00 EARNINGS in-person P-S2-2; ———- Zoom ROOM 2
— Chair: Laszlo Goerke (IAAEU, Trier University, IZA, CESifo, GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Leena Bhattacharya (WageIndicator Foundation & GLO)

• Emmi Wilén (University of Oulu), Sanna Huikari, Jouko Miettunen, Marko Korhonen. (105)
  Temperament traits and longitudinal earnings: increasing returns over time and at the top
• Damilola Afolabi (University of Regina) (141)
  Is there a Motherhood Bonus for Immigrant Mothers in the Canadian Labor Market compared to Immigrant Non-Mothers?
• Laszlo Goerke (IAAEU, Trier University, IZA, CESifo, GLO), Sven Hartmann, Yue Huang. (85-J)
  Councils of contentment: Works councils and income perceptions

13:00 BREAK

14:00-15:00 GLO Research Seminar in-person Plenary Conference Room K1;
———- Zoom ROOM 1
— Chair: Viola Angelini (University of Groningen & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO); session will be recorded.

Olga Stoddard (Brigham Young University)
The Visible Costs of Invisible Household Labor

15:00-16:00 KEYNOTE SPEECH in-person Plenary Conference Room K1;
———- Zoom ROOM 1
— Chair: Maloob Piracha (University of Kent & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO); session will be recorded.

Viola Angelini (University of Groningen & GLO)
Growing Older in Good Health: Tracing the Roots of Inequalities

16:00 BREAK

16:30-17:30 in-person Plenary Conference Room K1; Zoom ROOM 1
— Chair: Shuaizhang Feng (IESR & Jinan University, JOPE Editor & GLO) 
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO); session will be recorded.

– Report on the Journal of Population Economics: Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO & JOPE EiC)
– Kuznets Award Ceremony: Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO & JOPE EiC)

Claudio Costanzo (European Commission’s Joint Research Centre & ECARES) receives the 2026 Kuznets Prize. The annual prize honors the best article published in the Journal of Population Economics in the previous year. 

Claudio Costanzo: Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing 
FREE READ (https://rdcu.be/eKaC4) Journal of Population Economics (2025), 38, article 51

17:30-18:30 in-person Plenary Conference Room K1; ———- Zoom ROOM 1
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO):; session is recorded.

Panel: Collaborating with China: Challenges and Chances
– Ferdinand Dudenhöffer (Director CAR, Bochum & GLO)
– Shuaizhang Feng (IESR & Jinan University, JOPE Editor & GLO) 
– Xuewu Gu (International Relations/Center for Global Studies, Bonn University) 
– Wenxuan Hou (University of Edinburgh & GLO) 
– Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO & Senator Leopoldina), CHAIR

• Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Klaus F. Zimmermann and Yu Zhang (2022). “Higher Education Expansion and the Rise of China in Economics Research”. China Economic Review 74 (2022) 101813. OPEN ACCESS. PDF. 
• Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies (JCEBS). 

18:30 BREAK

ONLINE ONLY. December 4, 2025. ———- ROOM 1
19:00-21:00 CET= 13:00-15:00 EST “Philadelphia I” USA & Americas
— Chair: Amelie Constant (University of Pennsylvania & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Sandipa Bhattacharjee (Ramapo College of New Jersey & GLO)

• Harry Patrinos (University of Arkansas). (74)
  Seventy Years of Human Capital: What We Have Learned, And What We Still Have to Learn.
• Carmel U. Chiswick  (George Washington University). (51)   
  Economic Development in the 21^st Century.
• Nancy Chau, Huiyi Chen (James Madison University), Oleg Firsin (62-J)
  Social Networks and the Spread of Strikes
• Amelie F. Constant (University of Pennsylvania).
  Dynamic migration transitions between wealthy home and host countries by natives.

21:15-22:00 New Book Presentation in person dinner & Zoom ———- ROOM 1
— Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Mehrzad Baktash (University of Trier & GLO); session will be recorded.

Alison Booth (Writer & Australian National University & GLO) Death at Booroomba

The famous labor economist speaks about her new book online from Australia, available for all ONLINE participants and all dinner participants in the Casino of the Science Center Bonn.
Study also the recent GLO Interview with her (including references to the book).

ONLINE ONLY. December 4, 2025 CET Bonn.
„Sydney I“. Australia-New Zealand-US West Coast/else
22:30-00:30 CET = 8:30-10:30 AEDT (Dec. 5) ———- ROOM SYDNEY
— Chair: Max Tani (UNSW Canberra & GLO)
— Moderator: Liwen Guo (University of New South Wales & GLO)

• Yanxia Yu, Jacques Poot, W. Robert Reed, Weilun Wu (University of Canterbury), Yan. (58-J) Meta-analysis of the Impact of Population Age-Composition on Aggregate Saving Rates: A Global Perspective
• Sholeh Maani (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Olga Sudareva (University of Auckland, New Zealand). (139-J)
  Assessing the Impact of Crime on Gender Disparities in Labour Market Outcomes.
• Zhiming Cheng, Sarah Cook, Liwen Guo (University of New South Wales & The Kids Research Institute Australia & GLO), Massimiliano Tani. (77-J)
  Environmental Policy and Gender Health Gap
• Jayanta Sarkar (Queensland University of Technology). (140-J)
  Breaking the Mold: Norms, Childcare, and the Dynamics of Female Labor

22:30-00:30 CET = 16:30-18:30 EST “Philadelphia II” USA & Americas —— ROOM 1
— Chair: Amelie Constant (University of Pennsylvania & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Kishan Narayan (Northeastern University & GLO)

• Thomas Goldring, David C. Ribar (Georgia State University & JOPE Associate Editor). (91-J)
  How Children Combine Pre-Kindergarten and Subsidized Child Care in Georgia.
• Paige Schoonover (Saint Mary’s College of California). (121)
  Reacting to recalls: contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills in Chile
• Jiaheng Li (Macquarie University) (63)
  Predicting dynamic vulnerability to multidimensional poverty in China
• Hugo Jales (Syracuse University & JOPE Associate Editor), Zhengfei Yu (125)
  Minimum wage and Informality in a Roy Bargaining Economy: Evidence from a Bunching Estimator

• The full Program of the in-person & online Global GLO-JOPE Conference 2025, December 3-5 Bonn is now available. 
• Here we list DAY I (Dec. 3 CET) only for your last minute orientation.
• Time schedule given below is CET (Berlin). Check Time Zone Converter to orient yourself.
• To be able to participate, you need to have registered already either for Zoom ROOM 1 and/or Zoom ROOM 2. Registration Links and instructions to read are provided HERE.
• Featured Image by-The-Coherent-Team-on-Unsplash

December 3, 2025. All sessions are CET Berlin.

3:30 – 5:30 GLO JOBMARKET SESSION ASIA I ———- ROOM 1
Jobmarket Session 1: Applied Microeconomics (I) – Asia
— Chair: Shihe Fu (Wuhan University & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Leena Bhattacharya (WageIndicator Foundation & GLO)
CHINA: 10:30–12:30; INDIA: 8:00–10:00

1. Haobin Fan (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, haobin.fan@gmail.com), The Employment Landscape of Older Migrant Workers in China’s Aging Society: The Role of City‐Level and Industry Specialization, https://iuds.sass.org.cn/_s48/2021/0622/c5601a107639/page.psp

2. Miao Yu (National School of Development, Peking University, myu2021@nsd.pku.edu.cn), Extended Maternity Leaves and Gender Gaps: Evidence from an Online Job Platform, https://miaoyu20000702.github.io/miaoyu-pku/index.html

3. Andong Yan (University of Hong Kong, adyan@hku.hk), Redesigning Medicare Shared Savings Program: Implications for Risk-Averse and Strategic ACOs, https://andongyan.com/

4. Zipeng MA (ESSEC Business School, zipeng.ma@essec.edu), The reverse China shock on innovations and spillover: evidence from manufacturing industries, zipengmarkma.github.io

5. Yingfei Wang (Peking University, wangyf@stu.pku.edu.cn), Number One Girl: Female Top Scorers and Peer Academic Performance in Junior High Schools

6. Chen Chen (Brandeis University, chencc@brandeis.edu), Public Health Restrictions and Household Instability: Evidence from China’s COVID-19 Lockdown , 
https://sites.google.com/view/chenchen-econ/research

Discussants:

• Rikhia Bhukta, rikhiaeco@gmail.com
• Anshika Mathur, aa708@snu.edu.in
• Sabhya Rai, sabhya.rai21@iimb.ac.in
• Shreemoyee Saha, la21resch11004@iith.ac.in
• Kamalesh Pahurkar, pahurkar.kamalesh@iitb.ac.in
• Björn Becker, becker@iaaeu.de

5:30 BREAK

6:00 – 8:00 GLO JOBMARKET SESSION ASIA II ———- ROOM 1
Jobmarket Session 2: Applied Microeconomics (II) — Asia
— Chair & Zoom Moderator: Leena Bhattacharya (WageIndicator Foundation & GLO)
CHINA: 13:00–15:00; INDIA: 10:30–12:30

1. Rikhia Bhukta (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, rikhiaeco@gmail.com), Does Financial Inclusion Mitigate Social Exclusion?, https://rikhiabhukta.com/

2. Anshika Mathur (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence , aa708@snu.edu.in), Connectivity and Crime: The Impact of Broadband Availability on Sexual Assaults in India , https://mathuranshika.github.io/

3. Sabhya Rai (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, sabhya.rai21@iimb.ac.in), Price Shocks, Job Choices, Labor Mobility and Earnings, https://sites.google.com/view/sabhya-rai/home

4. Shreemoyee Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, la21resch11004@iith.ac.in), The Double-Edged Sword: How Women’s Financial Inclusion Affects Intimate Partner Violence in India

5. Kamalesh Pahurkar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, pahurkar.kamalesh@iitb.ac.in), Removing Small-Scale Reservations and Quality Upgradation: Evidence from India, https://sites.google.com/view/pahurkarkamalesh/home

6. Björn Becker (IAAEU at Trier University, becker@iaaeu.de), Higher Education, Lower Satisfaction: Hypogamy and Traditional Norms in Japan, https://sites.google.com/view/bjorn-becker/home?authuser=0

Discussants:

• Haobin Fan, haobin.fan@gmail.com
• Miao Yu, myu2021@nsd.pku.edu.cn
• Andong Yan, adyan@hku.hk
• Zipeng Ma, zipeng.ma@essec.edu
• Yingfei Wang, wangyf@stu.pku.edu.cn
• Chen Chen, chencc@brandeis.edu

8:00 BREAK

8:30 – 10:30 GLO VirtYS Alumni Invited Session ———- ROOM 1
— Chair: Olena Nizalova (University of Kent, Director VirtYS & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Leena Bhattacharya (WageIndicator Foundation & GLO)

• Olena Nizalova (University of Kent & Director VirtYS)
  VirtYS – the GLO Junior Mentoring Program
• Pragati (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore), Tirthatanmoy Das.
  Health Coverage and Educational Investments
• Tista Mukherjee (Faculty of Economic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISERB)
  Beyond the Street: Short-Run Spillover of Publicized Non-Partner Violence on Intimate Partner Abuse
• Tarana Chauhan (Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Brown University), Berber Kramer, Patrick S. Ward, and Subhransu Pattnaik
  Agricultural credit and women’s agency: Experimental evidence from India
• Deepthi Sara Anil (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
  Dietary Diversity and Aspirations of Young Adults. Evidence from India

10:30 BREAK

11:00 – 13:00 Identity ———- ROOM 1
— Chair: Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen, JOPE Editor & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Leena Bhattacharya (WageIndicator Foundation & GLO)

• Alessio Buonomo (University of Naples “Federico II”), Stefania Capecchi, Francesca Di Iorio, Salvatore Strozza. (144)
  Does cultural identity influence the probability of employment during economic crises?
   Journal of Population Economics 38, 61 (2025): OPEN ACCESS.
• Enrica De Cian, Filippo Pavanello, Teresa Randazzo (University of Messina). (94)
  Does social identity influence households’ adaptation to hot temperatures?
• David Fadiran & Adeola Oyenubi (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) (52-J)
  Spatial inequality, sub-regional governance and subjective well-being: The case of South Africa
• Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen & JOPE Editor). (18)
  Work orientations and turnover.
  GLO Discussion Paper 1645 Work orientations and economics – Download PDF

13:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 – 16:00 MIGRATION I ———- ROOM 1
— Chair: Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen, JOPE Editor & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Sandipa Bhattacharjee (Ramapo College of New Jersey & GLO)

• Ignat Stepanok (Institute for Employment Research, IAB) (25)
  Migration and Intellectual Property Rights Protection
• Anastasia Litina, Ioannis Patios (University of Macedonia).  (98-J)
  The Impact of Natural Disasters on Migration Attitudes. 
• Xiangqing Liu, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Silvana Robone (University of Eastern Piedmont), Elisa Tosetti, and Giorgio Vittadini. (89-J)
  The Effect of the Great Recession on the Mental Health Care of Immigrant and Native Workers in Italy.
• Sara Lemos (University of Leicester) and Jonathan Portes (King’s College London). (57)
  The Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment in the UK Using Longitudinal Administrative Data.

14:00 – 16:00 GLO JOBMARKET SESSION EUROPE I ———- ROOM 2
Jobmarket Session 3: Applied Microeconomics (III) — Europe
— Chair: Brianna Felegi (Virginia Tech)
— Zoom Moderator: Kishan Narayan (Northeastern University & GLO)

1. Theodor Kouro (CERGE-EI, theodor.kouro@cerge-ei.cz), Let Me Choose What I’m Best at: A Natural Field Experiment with Volunteers, https://sites.google.com/view/theodor-kouro?usp=sharing

2. Margarita Pavlova (CERGE-EI, Charles University, Margarita.Pavlova@cerge-ei.cz), Graduates in a Cycle: The Effect of Business Cycle Trajectories on Labor Market Outcomes of College Graduates, https://margarita-pavlova.github.io/

3. Jinci Liu (Stockholm University , jinci.liu@iies.su.se), Managing by Feedback, https://jinciliu.github.io/

4. Stella Papadokonstantaki (Washington University in St. Louis, p.stella@wustl.edu), Self-Presentation, https://www.stellapapadokonstantaki.com/

5. Nathan VIEIRA (Aix-Marseille School of Economics, nathan.vieira@univ-amu.fr), The Deadweight Loss of Short-Time Work, nathanvieira38.github.io

6. Yusuf Sen (University of Siena, yusufsenecon@gmail.com), Skill Obsolescence and the Consequences of Job Loss, https://sites.google.com/view/yusufziyasen

Discussants:

• Xiaoying Liu, xiaoyliu@sas.upenn.edu
• Ariane Gordan, ariane.gordan@gmail.com
• Claudio Annibali, c.annibali@rug.nl
• Dor Leventer, dorleventer@mail.tau.ac.il
• Hyun Lim, hyunkyeong.lim@wisc.edu
• Hoda El-Enbaby, h.elenbaby@lancaster.ac.uk

16:00 BREAK

16:30 – 18:30 HEALTH I ———- ROOM 1
— Chair: Nicolas R. Ziebarth (University of Mannheim, ZEW, GLO & JOPE Associate Editor)
— Zoom Moderator: Sandipa Bhattacharjee (Ramapo College of New Jersey & GLO)

• Dimitris Vallis, Riikka Savolainen (Swansea University), Jonathan Portes. (107)
  The impact of the pandemic on health-related inactivity and benefit claims
• Danilo Cavapozzi, Enrico Fornasiero (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice/University of Naples Parthenope), Teresa Randazzo. (95)
  The Effects of the Indian Mid-Day Meal Scheme on Cognitive and Health Outcomes of Children in Andhra Pradesh
• Petru Crudu, Giacomo Pasini (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice). (108-J)
  The Health Burden of Job Strain: Evidence from Europe
• Stefan Pichler, Christopher Prinz, Stefan Thewissen, Nicolas R. Ziebarth (University of Mannheim, ZEW & JOPE Associate Editor). (39-J)
  The Economics of Paid Sick Leave

16:30 – 18:30 GLO JOBMARKET SESSION EUROPE II ———- ROOM 2
Jobmarket Session 4: Labor and Health Economics – Europe
— Chair: Nazanin Sedaghatkish (Sam Houston State)
— Zoom Moderator: Kishan Narayan (Northeastern University & GLO)

1. Xiaoying Liu (University Pennsylvania, xiaoyliu@sas.upenn.edu), Air Pollution and Under-5 Child Mortality: Evidence from China’s Coal Power Plant Phase-out Policy, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mRB9MegAAAAJ&hl=en

2. Ariane Gordan (University of Luxembourg, ariane.gordan@gmail.com), Marriage Matters: Internal Migration and Marital Sorting in Indonesia, https://arianegordan.github.io/

3. Claudio Annibali (University of Groningen, c.annibali@rug.nl), The Labour Market and Health Effects of a Diabetes Warning: Evidence of Gender and Age Differences from the Lifelines Cohort Study, https://sites.google.com/view/claudioannibali/about/

4. Dor Leventer (Tel Aviv University, dorleventer@mail.tau.ac.il), Identification of Child Penalties, https://sites.google.com/mail.tau.ac.il/dor-leventer/home

5. Hyun Lim (University of Wisconsin-Madison, hyunkyeong.lim@wisc.edu), Grading Policies and College Major Choice with Ability Learning, https://www.hyun-lim.com

6. Hoda El-Enbaby (Lancaster University, h.elenbaby@lancaster.ac.uk), Health Insurance and Financial Protection: Evidence from Egypt, https://www.hodaelenbaby.com/

Discussants:

• Theodor Kouro, theodor.kouro@cerge-ei.cz
• Margarita Pavlova, Margarita.Pavlova@cerge-ei.cz
• Jinci Liu, jinci.liu@iies.su.se
• Stella Papadokonstantaki, p.stella@wustl.edu
• Nathan Vieira, nathan.vieira@univ-amu.fr
• Yusuf Sen, yusufsenecon@gmail.com

18:30 BREAK

19:00 – 21:00 MIGRATION II ———- ROOM 1
— Chair: Cynthia Bansak (St. Lawrence University, JOPE Associate Editor & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Kishan Narayan (Northeastern University & GLO)

• Tomas Sarkozi (Bratislava University of Economics and Business), Martin Kahanec (97-J*)
  Do Public Employment Programs Benefit Marginalized Communities?
• Jacek Barszczewski, Sophie Brochet, Prasanthi Ramakrishnan (Southern Methodist University). (110)
  Across-District Marriage Migration in India
• Maye Ehab (Institute for Employment Research) and Katja Möhring (20)
  Adaptation or continuation? Refugees’ labor market participation and working hours before and after migration
• Cynthia Bansak (St. Lawrence University & JOPE Associate Editor), Stephen Drinkwater (Roehampton University) (28)
  Differences in Schooling Attendance and Modes of Instruction Amongst Ukrainian Refugee Children: A Cross National Study

21:00 BREAK

21:30 – 23:30 HEALTH II & Labor Supply ———- ROOM 1
— Chair: Xi Chen (Yale University, JOPE Editor & GLO)
— Zoom Moderator: Kishan Narayan (Northeastern University & GLO)

• Chen Chen (Brandeis University) (80)
  Public Health Restrictions and Household Instability: Evidence from China’s COVID-19 Lockdown
• Hyunji Kim (University of Washington) (65)
  Maternal Health Programs and the Continuation of Unintended Pregnancies
• Xi Chen (Yale University & JOPE Editor). (19)
  AI in Healthcare: Assessing Safety and Quality of Digital Health Implementation in China.
• Anran Liu (University of California, Davis), Luoqi Yuan, Jianjun Tang. (150-J)
  Property Rights and Late-Life Labor Supply: Evidence from China’s Rural Land Titling Reform

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is pleased to announce a call for submissions for its annual conference (GLO JOPE Bonn 2025), which will be held from December 3-5, 2025 online and in-person in Bonn/Germany. Affiliated to this conference are online Job Market Sessions for young scholars, which have been very successful in previous years. The submission deadline for these sessions is November 14, 2025.

GLO Young Scholars Program invites job market candidates (PhD students or postdocs currently on the market in North America, Europe or Asia) to submit their research for presentation in dedicated job market sessions. This is a valuable opportunity to showcase your work and gain exposure in a supportive and high-profile environment. A special Q&A mentoring session for the selected presenters will take place after the presentations.

Session Focus: The job market sessions will focus on research related to labor, demography, health, or human resources broadly defined. We welcome submissions from candidates in all related disciplines.

Submission Requirements: Proposals must include:

• A paper or extended abstract of one’s Job Market Paper
• A CV

Submissions can be made either via link or as an attachment.

Session Regions Preferences: The job market sessions will also be organized by region based on their preferences for the timing of their presentations and the market of potential employers:

• North America
• Europe
• Asia

Please indicate your session preference in your submission. Presentations will be in English.

Submission Deadline: All submissions must be received by November 14^th, 2025. Notification of decision will be sent on November 20^th, 2025. 

Submission Process: Please click on the link below (or scan the QR code below) to submit your information and the required documents. If you have any questions regarding the submission process, feel free to contact Dr. Le Wang, Director of GLO Young Scholars Program.

SUBMISSION LINK

Benefits of Being Selected as a Presenter:

• Presenters are invited to provide a link to their personal websites which will be featured on the GLO website in the conference program, enhancing their portfolio’s visibility within the global research community.
• Presenters will have access to a special Q&A mentoring session focused on the job market experience, where committee members and peers share insights and advice.
• The online format minimizes costs, making participation accessible to candidates with limited financial resources. To further support early-career scholars, registration fees are waived for all job market candidates. This encourages a diverse set of institutions to be represented.
• Gain valuable experience presenting your research in a highly supportive environment, helping you refine your job market pitch and assess the progress of your work.
• Presenters will be eligible for an invitation to join the prestigious GLO network as a research affiliate, providing further opportunities for collaboration and professional growth.

We look forward to your participation and to supporting the next generation of scholars in labor and related fields. 

Organizing Committee:

Le Wang (Chair) Virginia Tech
Nazanin Sedaghatkish (Sam Houston State University), Leena Bhattacharya (Tilburg University), Tyler Ransom (University of Oklahoma), Fan Wang (University of Houston), Bingxiao Wu (Rutgers)

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Second Call for Papers. The Global Labor Organization (GLO), a large international network of economists and related disciplines, invites contributed papers on all areas of applied human resources issues to its annual hybrid global GLO-JOPE 2025 conference (3-5 December 2025). Supported by the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE), it organizes online sessions for this period, and on December 4-5 a connected in-person event in the Science Center Bonn.

Contributions are invited to cover issues broadly defined about: labor, population, development, family, fertility, migration, refugees, health, crime, conflict, religion, behavioral economics and other human resources topics.
Special interests include papers related to Africa, India, China, globalization or covered by the JOPE Collections.

Submissions are open, and the submission deadline is October 23, 2025. For further details (continuously updated) see 

https://glabor.org/global-glo-jope-conference-2025-december-3-5-bonn/

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to November 5, 2025.
Decision communication ongoing, at the latest on November 10.
Registration deadline: November 17, 2025.

WHAT HIGHLIGHTS TO EXPECT?

• Keynote speech by Viola Angelini (University of Groningen) on
  Growing Older in Good Health: Tracing the Roots of Inequalities
• December GLO Research Seminar provided by  Olga Stoddard (Brigham Young University): The Visible Costs of Invisible Household Labor
• Claudio Costanzo (European Commission’s Joint Research Centre & ECARES) receives the 2026 Kuznets Prize and presents his FREE READ (https://rdcu.be/eKaC4) article Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing. More details.
• Panel Discussion on Collaborating with China: Challenges and Chances with prominent speakers.
• Presentation of the new book Death at Booroomba by novelist (& economist) Alison Booth. See also the interview she just gave GLO: LINK
• A larger number of Journal of Population Economics Editors and Associate Editors present & acting, including Klaus F. Zimmermann, Xi Chen, Shuaizhang Feng, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Milena Nikolova, Kompal Sinha & Max Tani.
• About 80 in-person presentations in the Science Center Bonn, all accessible online, and a larger number of online-only paper presentations from all continents.
• Visit the Publisher Booth of Springer Nature, publisher of the Journal of Population Economics, the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics and the book series Population Economics.
• Visit Bonn and other near-by German destinations during the Christmas season to enjoy the many local Christmas markets. Explore the Beethoven House, discover the city’s wide range of museums, and tour the numerous art galleries of the former capital. Visit the Drachenfels and take in the spectacular views of the Rhine Valley.

First Call for Papers. The Global Labor Organization (GLO), a large international network of economists and related disciplines, invites contributed papers on all areas of applied human resources issues to its annual hybrid global GLO-JOPE 2025 conference (3-5 December 2025). Supported by the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE), it organizes online sessions for this period, and on December 4-5 a connected in-person event in the Science Center Bonn. Submissions are open, and the submission deadline is October 23, 2025. For further details (continuously updated) see 

https://glabor.org/global-glo-jope-conference-2025-december-3-5-bonn/

As the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE), Klaus F. Zimmermann was invited to speak on September 19, 2025 at the Springer Nature Editor Summit in Heidelberg about the success story of the journal. On January 2024, JOPE introduced Continous Article Publishing (CAP) to ensure fast and efficient publication of accepted manuscripts. At the same time, it started a larger number of article Collections to signal topics of interest to generate extra high quality submissions. Recently, Zimmermann had received the Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Awards 2025. Below see number of submissions to the journal, 2011 to 2025.

Note: 2020/2021: Larger number of transfer desk submissions. 2025: Predicted based on actual numbers on September 17, 2025.

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The 53rd EBES Conference takes place in Madrid/Spain on October 16-18, 2025 hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universidad Complutense, with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association. Interested researchers from around the world are cordially invited to submit their abstracts or papers for presentation considerations.

The conference aims to bring together many distinguished researchers from all over the world. Participants will find opportunities to present new research, exchange information, and discuss current issues. Although the focus is on Europe and Asia, all papers from major economics, finance, and business fields – theoretical or empirical – are highly encouraged. The conference will be held as a hybrid event, allowing participants to present via the Zoom platform and in person.

Deadline for Abstract/Paper submission is September 16, 2025.

EBES Executive Board

Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, and Free University Berlin, Germany
Prof. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Istanbul Medeniyet University, EBES, Turkey
Prof. Jonathan Batten, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Prof. Dorothea Schäfer, German Institute for Economic Research DIW Berlin, Germany
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Abstract/Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts or papers no later than September 16, 2025.

For submission, please visit the website at
https://ebesweb.org/53rd-ebes-conference-madrid/53rd-abstract-submission/
no submission fee is required.

General inquiries regarding the call for papers should be directed to ebes@ebesweb.org

Publication Opportunities

Qualified papers will be published in EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) after a peer review process without any submission or publication fees. EBES journals (EABR and EAER) are published by Springer and both are indexed in the SCOPUS, EBSCO EconLit with Full Text, Google Scholar, ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide, CNKI, EBSCO Business Source, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, ProQuest ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Business Premium Collection, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Turkey Database, ProQuest-ExLibris Primo, ProQuest-ExLibris Summon, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Naver, SCImago, ABDC Journal Quality List, Cabell’s Directory, and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. In addition, while EAER is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), EABR is indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Also, all accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the Conference Program and the Abstract Book (with an ISBN number). It will be distributed to all conference participants at the conference via USB. Although submitting full papers are not required, all the submitted full papers will also be included in the conference proceedings in the USB.

After the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to send their paper to be published (after a refereeing process managed by EBES) in the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (no submission and publication fees). This is indexed by Scopus. It will also be sent to Clarivate Analytics in order to be reviewed for coverage in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th, 28th, 29 (Vol. 1), and 30th EBES Conference Proceedings are accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Other conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Conference Date: October 16-18, 2025
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 16, 2025
Reply-by: September 19, 2025*
Registration Deadline: September 23, 2025
Submission of the Virtual Presentation: September 23, 2025
Announcement of the Program: September 28, 2025
Paper Submission Deadline (Optional): September 24, 2025**
Paper Submission for the EBES journals: December 15, 2025

* The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week of submission.

** Completed paper submission is optional. If you want to be considered for the Best Paper Award or your full paper to be included in the conference proceedings in the USB, after submitting your abstract before September 16, 2025, you must also submit your completed (full) paper by September 24, 2025.

Contact

Ugur Can, Director of EBES (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir, Conference Coordinator of EBES (demir@ebesweb.org)

Conference LINK

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The 52nd EBES Conference – Istanbul takes place on July 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 2025 in Istanbul, Türkiye. Event & Program Link. Highlights of the conference include:

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 The 8th IESR-GLO joint workshop on “Fertility decline and family policies” takes place on July 10-11, 2025, in Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. It is organized in co-operation with the Journal of Population Economics. Attendence is on invitation only.

Program

Day 1, July 10
12:00-13:30 PM Lunch

13:30-13:45 PM Welcome
Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) & IESR-GLO Collaboration
Shuaizhang Feng, Jinan University and GLO, JOPE Editor
Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT and GLO, JOPE Editor-in-Chief

Session I
Chair: Shuaizhang Feng

13:45-14:30 PM
Title: The Economics of Fertility Decline
Author(s): Klaus F. Zimmermann (Free University Berlin & GLO)

14:30-15:15 PM
Title: Migration Reform and Fertility: Causal Evidence from Rural China
Author(s): Zhangfeng Jin (Zhejiang University of Technology & GLO)
         Wenchao Jin

15:15-15:45 Group Photo & Break

15:45-16:30 PM
Title: Catholic Missionary Presence and Fertility in India
Author(s): Shampa Bhattacharjee (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence)
Roopal Jain & Priyoma Mustafi

16:30-17:15 PM
Title: Climate Change and Migration across the Great Wall of China during the Little Ice Age
Author(s): Qing Pei (Education University of Hong Kong & GLO)

18:30-20:30 PM Dinner (By invitation)

Day 2, July 11

Session II
Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann

9:00-9:45 AM
Title: Background Risk and Fertility
Author(s): Massimiliano Tani Bertuol (School of Business, UNSW, & GLO)

9:45-10:30 AM
Title: Sex Ratio, Commitment and Power Distribution Within the Household: An Empirical Investigation of China’s One Child Policy
Author(s): Xiao Liu (Capital University of Economics and Business)

10:30-11:00 AM Break

11:00-11:45 AM
Title: Family Planning Policy and Intimate Partner Violence
Author(s): Rufei Guo (Wuhan University and GLO)

11:45-12:30 PM
Title: Automation and Fertility Transitions in China
Author(s): Yue Wang (Peking University and GLO)
Chen Kang (Tongji University) & Xiaobing Wang (Peking University)

12:30-14:00 PM Lunch

RELATED:
– Seventh Renmin University & GLO Annual Conference 2024 on Low Fertility & Population Aging. In collaboration with the Journal of Population Economics. LINK
– Hart, R.K., Bergsvik, J., Fauske, A., Kim, W. (2024). Causal Analysis of Policy Effects on Fertility. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_451-1
– CALL FOR PAPERS: Collection Understanding Fertility Decline of the Journal of Population Economics. Details. See more related papers there.
– Costanzo, C. Robots, jobs, and optimal fertility timing. Journal of Population Economics 38, 51 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01105-3. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/eubHU
– Huang, W., Wang, Y., Wu, H. et al. The motherhood penalty and low fertility in China: a pseudo-event study. Journal of Population Economics 38, 28 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01078-3. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/eubJs
– Li, H., Shi, X. The effect of the one-child policy on fertility in China: identification based on difference-in-differences. Journal of Population Economics 38, 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01061-y. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/eubJ4
– Luo, W., Zou, X. Demographic impacts of China’s trade liberalization: marriage, spousal quality, and fertility. Journal of Population Economics 37, 63 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-01040-9. Free to read. https://rdcu.be/eubKD

The 51st EBES Conference – Rome will take place on April 11th, 12th, and 13th, 2025 in Rome, Italy. The conference will be hosted by John Cabot University with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association and is organized in Hybrid Mode (online and in-person). Interested researchers from around the world are cordially invited to submit their abstracts or papers for presentation considerations.

The conference aims to bring together many distinguished researchers from all over the world. Participants will find opportunities for presenting new research, exchanging information, and discussing current issues. Although we focus on Europe and Asia, all papers from major economics, finance, and business fields – theoretical or empirical – are highly encouraged. 

Deadline for Abstract/Paper submission is March 10, 2025.

Featured image: david-kohler-VFRTXGw1VjU-unsplash

EBES Executive Board

Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, and Free University Berlin, Germany
Prof. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Istanbul Medeniyet University, EBES, Turkey
Prof. Jonathan Batten, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Prof. Dorothea Schäfer, German Institute for Economic Research DIW Berlin, Germany
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Abstract/Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts or papers no later than March 10, 2025.

For submission, please visit our website at
at https://ebesweb.org/51st-ebes-conference-rome/51st-abstract-submission/
no submission fee is required.

General inquiries regarding the call for papers should be directed to ebes@ebesweb.org

Publication Opportunities

Qualified papers will be published in EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) after a peer review process without any submission or publication fees. EBES journals (EABR and EAER) are published by Springer and both are indexed in the SCOPUS, EBSCO EconLit with Full Text, Google Scholar, ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide, CNKI, EBSCO Business Source, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, ProQuest ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Business Premium Collection, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Turkey Database, ProQuest-ExLibris Primo, ProQuest-ExLibris Summon, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Naver, SCImago, ABDC Journal Quality List, Cabell’s Directory, and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. In addition, while EAER is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), EABR is indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Also, all accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the Conference Program and the Abstract Book (with an ISBN number). It will be distributed to all conference participants at the conference via USB. Although submitting full papers are not required, all the submitted full papers will also be included in the conference proceedings in the USB.

After the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to send their paper to be published (after a refereeing process managed by EBES) in the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (no submission and publication fees). This is indexed by Scopus. It will also be sent to Clarivate Analytics in order to be reviewed for coverage in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th, 28th, 29 (Vol. 1), and 30th EBES Conference Proceedings are accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Other conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Conference Date: April 11-13, 2025
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 10, 2025
Reply-by: March 15, 2025 *
Registration Deadline: March 20, 2025
Submission of the Virtual Presentation: March 21, 2025
Announcement of the Program: March 27, 2025
Paper Submission Deadline (Optional): March 21, 2025**
Paper Submission for the EBES journals: July 15, 2025

* The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week of submission.

** Completed paper submission is optional. If you want to be considered for the Best Paper Award or your full paper to be included in the conference proceedings in the USB, after submitting your abstract before March 10, 2025, you must also submit your completed (full) paper by March 21, 2025.

Contact

Ugur Can, Director of EBES (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir, Conference Coordinator of EBES (demir@ebesweb.org)

Conference LINK

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GLO Virtual Young Scholar (VirtYS) program session: Part II of the 2023-24 Cohort final presentations on January 23, 2025, 1-2 pm London/UK time

To register asap for the Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/vTP3qExMS9GlbbggasrPmw
You will receive a code for logging in after registration. 

Program

Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann

Each paper 15 min presentation and 5 min Q&A.

• Vincent Jerald Ramos (University of Southampton & GLO): Too Little, Too Weak? Paid Parental Leaves and Workers’ Bargaining Response
  Cluster lead & VirtYS Advisor: Prof. Uwe Jirjahn (Labor-management relations and quality of work)

• Xinyan Liu (University of Tokyo & GLO): Institution Matters: University Establishments and Childhood Maltreatment
  Cluster lead: Prof. Niaz Assadullah (South-east Asia); VirtYS Advisor: Prof. Astghik Mavisakalyan 

• Robina Kouser (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, & GLO): A New Insight into The Measurement of Household Well-Being for Vulnerable Economies: Evidence Using Pakistan’s Labor and Diet Data
  Cluster lead: Kompal Sinha (Development, Health, Inequality and Behavior); VirtYS Advisor: Suresh Chandra Babu

Note: Featured image Unsplash

Background information

Vincent Jerald Ramos

He is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, working on the demographic consequences of employment uncertainty. Concurrently, he is leading projects on concentration, representation, and bargaining in Philippine labor markets and the consequences of restrictive covenants in employment contracts. His work has been published in Work, Employment and Society, European Journal of Population, and Industrial Relations Journal, among others. He holds a PhD (summa cum laude) from the Hertie School Berlin and his current areas of interests are labor and economic demography and labor market institutions

Personal website: https://vincentrramos.github.io/

Presentation title: Too Little, Too Weak? Paid Parental Leaves and Workers’ Bargaining Response

Abstract: When statutory work and family entitlements are deemed insufficient, how do workers respond and compensate? Looking at some advanced economies points us to an idea – unionization may secure better conditions and higher benefit entitlements than what is statutorily guaranteed. However, the universality of this “success story” is far from established, particularly in contexts where unions play a less salient role and parental leave laws are perceived as weakly enforced, as is the case in many developing countries. In this paper, we construct a novel dataset of all private sector collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the Philippines from 2016-2021 to: (i) descriptively show the prevalence of paid parental leaves (PPLs) in CBAs; (ii) assess whether wage increase provisions crowd-out PPLs in CBAs; and (iii) analyze the causal effect of a 2019 maternity leave reform, which increased leave entitlement from 8 to 15 weeks, on the inclusion of PPLs in CBAs using two quasi-experimental identification strategies. Results suggest that around 65% of CBAs contain reinforcing provisions that merely restate statutory leave entitlements, while only 5% contain augmenting provisions that secure more leaves. Meanwhile, we find no evidence that either the inclusion of wage increase provisions or the 2019 reform has crowded out PPL provisions. On the contrary, we find a crowding-in pattern – wage increase provisions at the extensive and intensive margin are associated with a higher probability of PPL inclusion. Unpacking potential mechanisms, semi-structured interviews with union leaders and negotiators lend support to a bounded augmentation hypothesis such that where compliance and enforcement of family policy laws are perceived as weak, redundancy is as much of an objective as augmentation is in collective bargaining.

Xinyan Liu

She is a research associate at the University of Tokyo.  She is a GLO Virtual Young Scholar in the 2023-24 cohort. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2024. 

Her research interests span the fields of labor economics, education economics and crime economics. In particular, she focuses on three key areas: the influence of governmental policies on labor markets, education, and crime outcomes; the long-term effects of early childhood development; and the impact of policies on gender violence and its consequences. 

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/liuxinyan/home

Presentation title: Institution Matters: University Establishments and Childhood Maltreatment

Abstract: The prevalence of violence against children is a global concern, and addressing this urgent issue requires serious consideration. Based on the evidence from child trafficking, which is recognized as one of the most severe forms of childhood maltreatment, this paper proposes that the establishment of nearby educational institutions could have a substantial impact on reducing violence against children. Exploiting a quasi-experiment in China that exogenously led to the establishment of more campuses in 1999, this study investigates that the university establishments can lead to a decrease in the number of missing children. Our mechanism demonstrates that the university’s establishment leads to improved economic development, increased public safety, and changes in family behavior, resulting in a reduction in criminal activities. Our findings reveal the unintended effects on children following the implementation of social facilities, which can serve as a hidden means to combat violence against them.

Robina Kouser

She is a PhD scholar at the National University of Sciences and Technology. She is a GLO Virtual Young Scholar in the 2022-23 cohort. She is entitled to an AAEA Uma LELE mentor fellowship in 2023. Recently, she has been visiting Texas A&M University USA, as a visiting research fellow. She is working on food insecurity and the labor market in the context of households with persons with disability (PWD). Her areas of interest are the economics of inequality, labor market, and development economics.

Presentation Title: A New Insight into the Measurement of Household Well-Being for Vulnerable Economies: Evidence Using Pakistan’s Labor and Diet Data.

Abstract: Well-being is a multidimensional concept that includes various aspects of life, such as physical, emotional, and social well-being. Indexes like the Human Development Index and the Multidimensional Poverty Index are popular global measures of well-being that use indicators like education, health, and living standards. Food insecurity and lack of decent work are two key factors that significantly contribute to the deprivation of household well-being. Lack of decent work leads to low wages, long working hours, unsafe work environments, and other factors that can negatively impact the workers’ physical and mental health. Similarly, food insecurity is associated with malnutrition, poor health outcomes, and a reduced quality of life. We construct a novel index to incorporate the dimensions of labor and diets. Using the nationally representative PSLM/HIES (2018–19) data, we build a multi-dimensional well-being index (MWBI) for different occupational groups in Pakistan. We use the Alkire and Foster methodology to find the deprivation of well-being across regions, provinces, sectors, PSCO-major classes, skill levels, and industries. Our findings reveal that 26 percent of the households perform poorly on multi-dimensional well-being. Rural areas are twice as deprived as urban areas. KPK province is the most deprived, while Punjab is the least. Female-headed households are worse off than male-headed households. Household heads employed in the agriculture sector, working in PSCO-class ‘elementary occupations,’ possessing skill level 1, or in the arts, entertainment, and recreation industry are the worst performers. Household heads employed in the non-agriculture sector (0.23), PSCO major group of clerical support workers (0.08), possessing skill level 4 (0.11), or in the industry of real estate are the least deprived. Our policy recommendations are to ensure wages exceed the minimum wage and promote skilled work. Focusing on the interplay of labor and diet is pivotal to promoting well-being in vulnerable economies.

GLO Fellow Richard A. Easterlin (University of Southern California), the intellectual giant of population economics, passed away at the age of 98 on December 16, 2024. Population economists will miss his spirit, inspiration, support, and friendship.

The Easterlin hypothesis is a theory of fertility preference formation, which suggests that fertility cycles depend on the changing aspirations of young people and intergenerational relative income across cohorts. The economic and social outcomes of a cohort are inversely correlated to its size. Easterlin attributes this to material aspirations formed during adolescence using parents’ economic outcomes as a benchmark. Large cohorts growing up in prosperous times develop high income aspirations, facing poorer prospects due to crowding in family, education, and labor markets. Larger cohorts often result in more siblings, thus diluting parental time and resources. Entry of large cohorts into the labor market leads to lower relative wages and higher unemployment. Consequently, such cohorts feel deprived and may exhibit lower birth rates, leading to smaller succeeding cohorts with lower material aspirations. This cohort size effect generates long-term fertility trends and shifts in labor and goods markets.

The Easterlin paradox explains why, contrary to expectations, happiness at the national level does not necessarily increase with income over time. While cross-sectional analyses within countries show that higher income correlates with greater happiness, time-series analyses reveal that economic growth does not necessarily increase happiness. Comparatively, when basic needs, such as clothing, nutrition, and housing are met, national income has little impact on happiness. Easterlin suggested that relative income and aspiration processes explain this paradox. Once basic needs are satisfied, further increases in absolute income do not enhance well-being, unless they improve one’s relative societal position. Additionally, a higher income often raises income and consumption aspirations.

Dick Easterlin has been an author (see (9) below) and long-term Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics. He has been the only person in the history of the journal who was honored by an interview (see (8) below with free PDF access). Over the decades, a huge amount of research related to his work has been published in the journal (see (6) and (7) as examples below).

Research by Richard Easterlin and Gary Becker were the major sources in my population economics class in my time as Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1987.

During my tenure as Founding Director of IZA, I was chairing the IZA award committee deciding to honor Easterlin with the IZA Prize in 2009 and was co-editing his Oxford University Press prize book (see (4) and (5) below). The official 2009 IZA Prize Ceremony took place on October 22 in Washington, DC, where I met him last time in person. I remember the moving celebrations well.

The Journal of Population Economics has established a special collection of work on Wellbeing and Happiness and the Springer Nature Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics has an own section on Welfare, Well-Being, Happiness to publish work in his tradition (see (2) and (3) below).

In 2022, Dick Easterlin co-authored a chapter on The Easterlin Paradox in  the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (see (1) below with free PDF access). This paper was GLO Discussion Paper No. 743, 2020.  

With tremendous respect, we will always remember his path-breaking work and great personality.

Klaus F. Zimmermann

References:

• (1) Richard R. Easterlin and K.J. O’Connor (2022). The Easterlin Paradox. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (ed) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_184-2 Free PDF Access. Also GLO Discussion Paper No. 743, 2020. 
• (2) Section Welfare, Well-Being, Happiness edited by Section Editor Milena Nikolova in the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics edited by K. F. Zimmermann.
• (3) Paper Collection Wellbeing and Happiness in the Journal of Population Economics.
•  (4) Richard A. Easterlin (2010): Happiness, growth, and the life cycle. Edited by H. Hinte and K.F. Zimmermann, Oxford University Press. IZA Prize of 2009.
• (5) Richard Easterlin receives IZA Prize in Labor Economics. Journal of Population Economics (2010) 23:411–414. DOI 10.1007/s00148-009-0301-4
• (6) Yongil Jeon & Shields, M. (2005). The Easterlin hypothesis in the recent experience of higher-income OECD countries: A panel-data approach. Journal of Population Economics 18, 1–13 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-004-0190-5
• (7) Diane J. Macunovich (1998). Fertility and the Easterlin hypothesis: An assessment of the literature.   11, 53–111 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001480050058
• (8) Diane J. Macunovich (1997). A conversation with Richard Easterlin. Journal of Population Economics 10, 119–136 https://doi.org/10.1007/s001480050034 Free PDF Access.
• (9) Richard R. Easterlin, C. Macdonald & D.J. Macunovich (1990). How have American baby boomers fared? Earnings and economic well-being of young adults, 1964–1987. Journal of Population Economics 3, 277–290. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00179337

Source: Richard Easterlin receives IZA Prize in Labor Economics. Journal of Population Economics (2010) 23:411–414. DOI 10.1007/s00148-009-0301-4, p. 411.

Best wishes and many thanks for all the support we have received in 2024! GLO

Happy Holidays & Season’s Greetings!

Hotel Kempinski Corvinus Budapest Dec. 20, 2024

Register for the Global GLO-JOPE Conference 2024, December 4-7. All program and registration details are here:

https://glabor.org/global-glo-jope-conference-2024-december-4-7-2024/

What to expect?

• Dec 4: papers on robots, emerging technologies, the Gig economy, the Ukraine, migration & development. Online access to in-person meeting at UNU-MERIT, Maastricht.
• Dec 5:
  – Term papers of the VirtYS Young Scholar Cohort 2023-2024;
  – The December GLO Virtual Seminar: Eva Sierminska on “Inequality in Economics as a Profession”.
  – The 2025 Kuznets Prize: Peter Eibich and Emma Xianhua Zai for
  “Are the grandparents alright? The health consequences of grandparental childcare provision“
  Journal of Population Economics JOPE (2024), 37, article 71. Peter Eibich will introduce this paper.
  – Highlights of JOPE articles 2024
  – Job Market Session
• Dec 6:
  – Highlights of JOPE articles 2024
  – Job Market Sessions
• Dec 7: Job Market Sessions

Looking forward to meeting you at the event.

The 50th EBES Conference – Lisbon will take place on January 8th, 9th, and 10th, 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference will be hosted by ISCTE-IUL Instituto Universitário de Lisboa with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association and is organized in Hybrid Mode (online and in-person). Interested researchers from around the world are cordially invited to submit their abstracts or papers for presentation considerations.

The conference aims to bring together many distinguished researchers from all over the world. Participants will find opportunities for presenting new research, exchanging information, and discussing current issues. Although we focus on Europe and Asia, all papers from major economics, finance, and business fields – theoretical or empirical – are highly encouraged. 

Deadline for Abstract/Paper submission is November 30, 2024.

EBES Executive Board

Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, and Free University Berlin, Germany
Prof. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Istanbul Medeniyet University, EBES, Turkey
Prof. Jonathan Batten, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Prof. Dorothea Schäfer, German Institute for Economic Research DIW Berlin, Germany
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Abstract/Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts or papers no later than November 30, 2024.

For submission, please visit our website at
https://ebesweb.org/50th-ebes-conference-lisbon/50th-abstract-submission/
no submission fee is required.

General inquiries regarding the call for papers should be directed to ebes@ebesweb.org

Publication Opportunities

Qualified papers will be published in EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) after a peer review process without any submission or publication fees. EBES journals (EABR and EAER) are published by Springer and both are indexed in the SCOPUS. 2023 Citescores of EAER and EABR are 6.9 (Q1) and 6.0 (Q1), respectively. In addition, while EAER is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), EABR is indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences. EABR’s 2023 Impact Factor is 4.0 (Q1) and EAER’s 2023 IF is 2.5 (Q2). Furthermore, the qualified papers from the conference will be published in the regular issues of Singapore Economic Review (SSCI & Scopus) after a fast-track review.

Also, all accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the Conference Program and the Abstract Book (with an ISBN number). It will be distributed to all conference participants at the conference via USB. Although submitting full papers are not required, all the submitted full papers will also be included in the conference proceedings in the USB.

After the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to send their paper to be published in the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (no submission and publication fee) after a fast peer review process. This is indexed by Scopus. This will also be sent to Clarivate Analytics in order to be reviewed for coverage in its Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th, 28th, 29th (Vol. 1), 30th, 33rd, and 34th EBES Conference Proceedings are accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Subsequent conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Conference Date: January 8-10, 2025
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 30, 2024
Reply-by: December 10, 2024*
Registration Deadline: December 15, 2024
Submission of the Virtual Presentation: December 16, 2024
Announcement of the Program: December 22, 2024
Paper Submission Deadline (Optional): December 20, 2024**
Paper Submission for the EBES journals: March 16, 2025

* The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week of submission.

** Completed paper submission is optional. If you want to be considered for the Best Paper Award or your full paper to be included in the conference proceedings in the USB, after submitting your abstract before November 30, 2024, you must also submit your completed (full) paper by December 20, 2024.

Contact

Ugur Can, Director of EBES (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir, Conference Coordinator of EBES (demir@ebesweb.org)

Conference LINK

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Call for Papers | Australian Gender Economics Workshop AGEW 2025 | 6‒7 February 2025 | Wollongong, Australia.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR PAPERS & ABSTRACTS IS 7 October 2024!
To register: https://uow.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bNHfcZUBMWLVIhM

The 8th Australian Gender Economics Workshop (#AGEW2025) is hosted by the University of Wollongong in partnership with the Women in Economics Network and is organised by Alfredo Paloyo. The workshop will take place on 6‒7 February 2025 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Wollongong is in Dharawal Country.

#AGEW2025 is accepting papers for consideration. The workshop has a broad understanding of “gender economics”. Full papers or extended abstracts (about 2000 words) are acceptable.

NOTE: From 2025, AGEW will feature special sessions on the Economics of Violence Against Women in collaboration with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE). The CEVAW-GLO-JOPE sessions are organised in the context of the “Sexual and Domestic Violence” collection of articles in the Journal of Population Economics. Please indicate in your submission if you would like your paper to be considered for presentation in these special sessions as part of the workshop, noting that submission to the “Sexual and Domestic Violence” collection of articles in the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) post-workshop is optional and papers that are submitted to the collection will undergo a regular refereeing process of the journal. For questions on CEVAW-GLO-JOPE sessions, please email JOPE Associate Editor Astghik Mavisakalyan at astghik.mavisakalyan@curtin.edu.au.

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The 49th EBES Conference – Athens will take place on October 16th, 17th, and 18th, 2024 in Athens, Greece. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Economics, University of Piraeus with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association and is organized in Hybrid Mode (online and in-person). Interested researchers from around the world are cordially invited to submit their abstracts or papers for presentation considerations.

Deadline for Abstract/Paper submission is September 16, 2024.

EBES Executive Board

Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, and Free University Berlin, Germany
Prof. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Istanbul Medeniyet University, EBES, Turkey
Prof. Jonathan Batten, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Prof. Dorothea Schäfer, German Institute for Economic Research DIW Berlin, Germany
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Abstract/Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts or papers no later than September 8, 2024.

For submission, please visit our website at
https://ebesweb.org/49th-ebes-conference-athens/49th-abstract-submission/
no submission fee is required.

General inquiries regarding the call for papers should be directed to ebes@ebesweb.org

Publication Opportunities

Qualified papers can be published in EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) or EBES proceedings books after a peer review process without any submission or publication fees. EBES journals (EABR and EAER) are published by Springer and both are indexed in the SCOPUS, EBSCO EconLit with Full Text, Google Scholar, ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide, CNKI, EBSCO Business Source, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, ProQuest ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Business Premium Collection, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Turkey Database, ProQuest-ExLibris Primo, ProQuest-ExLibris Summon, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Naver, SCImago, ABDC Journal Quality List, Cabell’s Directory, and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. In addition, while EAER is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), EABR is indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Also, all accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the Conference Program and the Abstract Book (with an ISBN number). It will be distributed to all conference participants at the conference via USB. Although submitting full papers are not required, all the submitted full papers will also be included in the conference proceedings in a USB.

After the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to send their paper to be published (after a refereeing process managed by EBES) in the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (no submission and publication fees). This is indexed by Scopus. It will also be sent to Clarivate Analytics in order to be reviewed for coverage in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29 (Vol. 1), and 30th EBES Conference Proceedings are accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Other conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Conference Date: October 16-18, 2024
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 8, 2024
Reply-by: September 15, 2024*
Registration Deadline: September 19, 2024
Submission of the Virtual Presentation: September 19, 2024
Announcement of the Program: September 26, 2024
Paper Submission Deadline (Optional): December 9, 2024**
Paper Submission for the EBES journals: September 19, 2024

* The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week of submission.

** Completed paper submission is optional. If you want to be considered for the Best Paper Award or your full paper to be included in the conference proceedings in the USB, after submitting your abstract before September 8, 2024, you must also submit your completed (full) paper by September 19, 2024.

Contact

Ugur Can, Director of EBES (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir, Conference Coordinator of EBES (demir@ebesweb.org)

Conference LINK

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The 48th EBES Conference – Istanbul will take place on July 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2024 in Istanbul, Türkiye. The conference will be hosted by the Istanbul Ticaret University with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association and is organized in Hybrid Mode (online and in-person). Interested researchers from around the world are cordially invited to submit their abstracts or papers for presentation considerations.

Deadline for Abstract/Paper submission is June 4, 2024.

EBES Executive Board

Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, and Free University Berlin, Germany
Prof. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Istanbul Medeniyet University, EBES, Turkey
Prof. Jonathan Batten, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Prof. Dorothea Schäfer, German Institute for Economic Research DIW Berlin, Germany
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Abstract/Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts or papers no later than June 4, 2024.

For submission, please visit our website at at
https://ebesweb.org/48th-ebes-conference-istanbul/48th-ebes-conference-istanbul/
no submission fee is required.

General inquiries regarding the call for papers should be directed to ebes@ebesweb.org

Publication Opportunities

Qualified papers can be published in EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) or EBES proceedings books after a peer review process without any submission or publication fees. EBES journals (EABR and EAER) are published by Springer and both are indexed in the SCOPUS, EBSCO EconLit with Full Text, Google Scholar, ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide, CNKI, EBSCO Business Source, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, ProQuest ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Business Premium Collection, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Turkey Database, ProQuest-ExLibris Primo, ProQuest-ExLibris Summon, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Naver, SCImago, ABDC Journal Quality List, Cabell’s Directory, and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. In addition, while EAER is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), EABR is indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Also, all accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the Conference Program and the Abstract Book (with an ISBN number). It will be distributed to all conference participants at the conference via USB. Although submitting full papers are not required, all the submitted full papers will also be included in the conference proceedings in a USB.

After the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to send their paper to be published (after a refereeing process managed by EBES) in the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (no submission and publication fees). This is indexed by Scopus. It will also be sent to Clarivate Analytics in order to be reviewed for coverage in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29 (Vol. 1), and 30th EBES Conference Proceedings are accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Other conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Conference Date: July 4-6, 2024
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 4, 2024
Reply-by: June 6, 2024*
Registration Deadline: June 14, 2024
Submission of the Virtual Presentation: June 15, 2024
Announcement of the Program: June 23, 2024
Paper Submission Deadline (Optional): June 15, 2024**
Paper Submission for the EBES journals: October 15, 2024

* The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week of submission.

** Completed paper submission is optional. If you want to be considered for the Best Paper Award or your full paper to be included in the conference proceedings in the USB, after submitting your abstract before June 4, 2024, you must also submit your completed (full) paper by June 15, 2024.

Contact

Ugur Can, Director of EBES (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir, Conference Coordinator of EBES (demir@ebesweb.org)

Conference LINK

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The 47th EBES Conference – Berlin will take place on April 18th, 19th, and 20th, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. EBES 47 is supported by the Istanbul Economic Research Association and jointly organized with the GLO 2024 Berlin conference of the Glabor Labor Organization. Both collaborative conferences will be hosted by the FOM University of Applied Sciences Berlin branch and are organized in Hybrid Mode (online and in-person). Participants of EBES 47 Berlin and GLO 2024 Berlin will have access to all program parts of both conferences.

Interested researchers from around the world are cordially invited to submit their abstracts or papers for presentation considerations.

Deadline for Abstract/Paper Submission is February 29, 2024.

EBES Executive Board

Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, and Free University Berlin
Prof. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Istanbul Medeniyet University, EBES, Turkey
Prof. Jonathan Batten, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Prof. Dorothea Schäfer, German Institute for Economic Research DIW Berlin, Germany
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Abstract/Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts or papers no later than February 29, 2024.

For submission, please visit our website at at
https://ebesweb.org/47th-ebes-onference/berlin-abstract-submission/
no submission fee is required.

General inquiries regarding the call for papers should be directed to ebes@ebesweb.org

Publication Opportunities

Qualified papers can be published in EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) or EBES proceedings books after a peer review process without any submission or publication fees. EBES journals (EABR and EAER) are published by Springer and both are indexed in the SCOPUS, EBSCO EconLit with Full Text, Google Scholar, ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide, CNKI, EBSCO Business Source, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, ProQuest ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Business Premium Collection, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Turkey Database, ProQuest-ExLibris Primo, ProQuest-ExLibris Summon, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Naver, SCImago, ABDC Journal Quality List, Cabell’s Directory, and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. In addition, while EAER is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), EABR is indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Also, all accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the Conference Program and the Abstract Book (with an ISBN number). It will be distributed to all conference participants at the conference via USB. Although submitting full papers are not required, all the submitted full papers will also be included in the conference proceedings in a USB.

After the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to send their paper to be published (after a refereeing process managed by EBES) in the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (no submission and publication fees). This is indexed by Scopus. It will also be sent to Clarivate Analytics in order to be reviewed for coverage in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29 (Vol. 1), and 30th EBES Conference Proceedings are accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Other conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Conference Date: April 18-20, 2024
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 29, 2024
Reply-by: March 4, 2024*
Registration Deadline: March 15, 2024
Submission of the Virtual Presentation: March 16, 2024
Announcement of the Program: March 29, 2024
Paper Submission Deadline (Optional): March 16, 2024**
Paper Submission for the EBES journals: July 15, 2024

* The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week of submission.

** Completed paper submission is optional. If you want to be considered for the Best Paper Award or your full paper to be included in the conference proceedings in the USB, after submitting your abstract before February 29, 2024, you must also submit your completed (full) paper by March 16, 2024.

Contact

Ugur Can, Director of EBES (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir, Conference Coordinator of EBES (demir@ebesweb.org)

Conference LINK

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A 3-days online event on December 4-6 celebrates recent successes and informs about publication highlights from 2023 issues 3 and 4 of the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE). New JOPE publication directions are explained. The 2024 JOPE Kuznets Prize for the best paper published in 2023 is presented.

• Event presents highlights of JOPE articles of issues 3 + 4 of 2023
  https://link.springer.com/journal/148/volumes-and-issues/36-3
  https://link.springer.com/journal/148/volumes-and-issues/36-4
  
• Kuznets Prize Ceremony
  
• Journal Success Report (IF: 6.1; CiteScore: 9.2)
  
• JOPE 2023 report and announcements
  Exciting news: JOPE has now moved to a zero-backlog policy implying immediate publication of all newly published papers into the running quarterly issue of the journal. JOPE will start in 2024 with about two dozens of high quality research papers.
  
• General time-frame all CET (Dec 4: 3pm-12am; Dec 5: 2pm-5pm; Dec 6: 2pm-4:15pm)
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  You need to register for all three days separately, see below.
  
• NOTE: The event is video-taped.

Full Program below: Current draft December 6, 2023, 7:00 am CET Berlin

GLO – JOPE 2023 Global Conference, Dec 4-6

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DAY I – MONDAY, DEC 4: 3 pm – 12 am CET

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VIDEO of GLO-JOPE Global Conference 2023 Sessions A1-A5
VIDEO of GLO-JOPE Global Conference 2023 Sessions A6-A7 (Kuznets Prize Session)

A1 – Environment, Weather, Climate – Chair: JOPE Editor Shuaizhang Feng

3:00 pm. Jia Wu, Lin, J. & Han, X. Compensation for girls in early childhood and its long-run impact: family investment strategies under rainfall shocks. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00901-5  Readlink: https://rdcu.be/dbILc

3:15 pm. Xin Zhang, Zhang, X., Liu, Y. et al. The morbidity costs of air pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00948-y 
Readlink: https://rdcu.be/dbIPy

3:30 pm. Yue Hua, Qiu, Y. & Tan, X. The effects of temperature on mental health: evidence from China. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00932-y  Readlink: https://rdcu.be/dbKwT

3:45 pm. Masahiro Shoji  Gendered effects of early childhood weather shocks on locus of control: evidence from 28 agricultural countries. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00923-z  Readlink: https://rdcu.be/dbKyE

4:00 pm. BREAK

A2 – Health, Vaccinations, Risky Behaviors – Chair: JOPE Editor Xi Chen

4:30 pm. Yarine Fawaz, Mira, P. Social isolation, health dynamics, and mortality: evidence across 21 European countries. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00956-y  Readlink: https://rdcu.be/diCU8

4:50 pm. Beghelli, S., Augustin De Coulon & O’Mahony, M. Health benefits of reducing aircraft pollution: evidence from changes in flight paths. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00964-y OPEN ACCESS.

5:10 pm. Elodie Djemai, Renard, Y. & Samson, AL. Mothers and fathers: education, co-residence, and child health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00966-w  Readlink: https://rdcu.be/dlAFr

5:30 pm. BREAK

A3 – Education – Chair: JOPE Editor Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

6:00 pm. Kendall Kennedy Hidden schooling: endogenous measurement error and bias in education and labor market experience. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00918-w  Readlink: https://rdcu.be/dbKxP

6:15 pm. Ruzica Savcic, Theodoropoulos, N. & Xefteris, D. Conscription and educational outcomes. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00944-2 Readlink: https://rdcu.be/diC0V

6:30 pm. BREAK

A4 + A5 – Migration and Refugee Issues – Chair: JOPE Editor Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

7:00 pm. Yuanyuan Chen, Fu, W. Migration control policy and parent–child separation among migrant families: evidence from China. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00971-z Readlink: https://rdcu.be/diCUx

7:15 pm. El-Bialy, N., Aranda, E.F., Andreas Nicklisch, A. Voigt, S. et al. No man is an island: trust, trustworthiness, and social networks among refugees in Germany. 
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00969-7 OPEN ACCESS.

7:30 pm. Robert Bernhardt., Wunnava, P.V. Does asking about citizenship increase labor survey non-response?  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00945-1 
Readlink: https://rdcu.be/diCZ4

7:45pm. Kovacic, M., Cristina Elisa Orso Who’s afraid of immigration? The effect of economic preferences on tolerance. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00947-z  OPEN ACCESS

8:00 pm. BREAK

A6 – Gender Issues and Preferences – Chair: JOPE Editor Kompal Sinha.

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10:00 pm. Jones, T.R., Matthew Millington & Price, J. Changes in parental gender preference in the USA: evidence from 1850 to 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00957-x Readlink: https://rdcu.be/diCXe

10:20 pm. Yinjunjie Zhang & Robert Breunig (Australian National University)
Female breadwinning and domestic abuse: evidence from Australia https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00975-9 OPEN ACCESS.
Kuznets Prize 2024 winning paper for the best JOPE article published in 2023. MORE INFO.
Questions & remarks: GLO VirtYS Scholars 2023/2024
Tarana Chauhan (Cornell University) & Xinyan Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

11:00 pm.

A7 – JOPE Annual Report & JOPE Kuznets Prize Ceremony. Chair: JOPE Editor Kompal Sinha.

• JOPE Annual Report:  Klaus F. Zimmermann (JOPE & GLO)   

• The Kuznets Prize Ceremony: Kompal Sinha (Macquarie University)

• Kuznets Prize Laudatio: Astghik Mavisakalyan (Curtin University)

• Response: Kuznets Prize Winner

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VIDEO of GLO-JOPE Global Conference 2023 Sessions B1-B3

B1 & B2 – Family & Fertility: Chair: JOPE Editor Milena Nikolova

2:00 pm. Jisoo Hwang, Kim, S.K. Unexpected longevity, intergenerational policies, and fertility. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00943-3 OPEN ACCESS

2:15 pm. Anna Adamecz-Völgyi, A., Henderson, M. & Shure, N. The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00908-y OPEN ACCESS

2:30 pm. Congdon Fors, H., Annika Lindskog Son preference and education Inequalities in India: the role of gender-biased fertility strategies and preferential treatment of boys. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00941-5 OPEN ACCESS

2:45 pm. Casarico, A., Elena del Rey Canteli, E. & Silva, J.I. Child care costs, household liquidity constraints, and gender inequality. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00936-2  OPEN ACCESS

3:00 pm. Casarico, A., Salvatore Lattanzio Behind the child penalty: understanding what contributes to the labour market costs of motherhood. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00937-1 Readlink: https://rdcu.be/dbIRU

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B3 – Fertility and Marriage – Chair: JOPE Editor Terra McKinnish

4:00 pm. Jie Zhang, Liu, H. Differential fertility, school enrollment, and development. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00954-0 OPEN ACCESS.

4:15 pm. Madhulika Khanna, Kochhar, N.: Do marriage markets respond to a natural disaster? The impact of flooding of the Kosi river in India. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00955-z Readlink: https://rdcu.be/diCVT

4:30 pm. Bastian Schulz, Siuda, F. Marriage and divorce: the role of unemployment insurance. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00961-1 OPEN ACCESS.

B4 – Aspirations and Preferences – Chair: JOPE Editor Terra McKinnish

VIDEO of GLO-JOPE Global Conference 2023 Session B4

4:45 pm. Otrachshenko, V., Nikolova, M. & Olga Popova Double-edged sword: persistent effects of Communist regime affiliations on well-being and preferences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00930-0  OPEN ACCESS.

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VIDEO of GLO-JOPE Global Conference 2023 Sessions C1-C3

C1 & C2 – Historical Demography – Chair: JOPE Editor Oded Galor

2:00 pm. Raphael Franck The impact of industrialization on secondary schooling during the industrial revolution: evidence from nineteenth-century France.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00962-0 Readlink: https://rdcu.be/diCUM

2:15 pm. Angus Chu Natural selection and Neanderthal extinction in a Malthusian economy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00939-z  Readlink: https://rdcu.be/dbJ00

2:30 pm. Bai, Y., Yanjun Li & Lam, P.H. Quantity-quality trade-off in Northeast China during the Qing dynasty. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00933-x  
Readlink: https://rdcu.be/dbJ1F

2:45 pm. BREAK

3:15 pm. Kwan Lee The impact of a local human capital shock: evidence from World War II veterans. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00919-9 Readlink: https://rdcu.be/dbKzA

3:30 pm. Sijie Hu Survival of the literati: Social status and reproduction in Ming–Qing China. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00960-2 Readlink: https://rdcu.be/diCX5

C3 – Retirement – Chair: JOPE Editor Gregory Ponthiere

3:45 pm. Enrique Pardo Reinoso Mandatory retirement savings in the presence of an informal labor market. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00967-9 OPEN ACCESS.

Final Remarks – Season’s Greetings – Chair: JOPE Managing Editor Madeline Zavodny

4:00 pm – 4:15 pm. Remarks and conference ending.

Today, we celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Oded Galor, a North Star in the field of economics. His groundbreaking work has illuminated our understanding of humanity’s economic journey. His dedication to research has inspired countless individuals around the world. The Journal of Population Economics and the GLO global network is grateful for his endless support and great inspirations. On this special day, we honor his remarkable contributions and wish him a very happy birthday. May his path continue to be marked by curiosity, discovery, and success.

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The 6th Renmin University of China, Beijing & GLO Conference 2023 on Chinese labor market issues took place in person October 7-8 at Renmin University of China organized by the School of Labor and Human Resources together with GLO. The event was supported by the Journal of Population Economics.

Organizers: Liqiu Zhao (Renmin University of China and GLO); Corrado Giulietti (University of Southampton and GLO, Associate Editor Journal of Population Economics); Zhong Zhao (Renmin University of China and GLO, Associate Editor Journal of Population Economics), and GLO President & Editor-in-Chief Journal of Population Economics Klaus F. Zimmermann (Renmin University of China & Free University of Berlin).

The full academic program is provided below; conference photo at the end.
See also: Conference program.

The conference was opened by Zhong Zhao, who is also the Dean of the School of Labor and Human Resources at Renmin University, and Klaus F. Zimmermann for GLO.

The first keynote speaker was Junsen Zhang (Zhejiang University and GLO), who spoke about “Aging in a Dual Economy: Urban Aging, Massive Migration, and Agricultural Development”.

In his keynote (“Publishing in Research Journals at the Time of AI”), Zimmermann mentioned that the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) has published important Chinese studies and will continue to do so. Among the top 12 best cited articles for the 2022 Impact Factor (with a top value for JOPE of IF = 6.1) are four articles from Chinese authors with contributors of three articles present at the conference.

From the left: Sen Xue, Junsen Zhang, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Zhong Zhao, Liqiu Zhao

Among the top 12 best cited articles for the 2022 JOPE Impact Factor are four papers with authors based in China:

Rank 1: Qiu, Y., Chen, X. & Shi, W. Impacts of social and economic factors on the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China. JOPE 33, 1127–1172 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-020-00778-2 OPEN ACCESS.
Handling Editor: Klaus F. Zimmermann
Rank 8: Du, H., Xiao, Y. & Zhao, Liqiu Education and gender role attitudes. JOPE 34, 475–513 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-020-00793-3 Free to read: https://rdcu.be/dpTur
Handling Editor: Shuaizhang Feng
Rank 11: Meng, X., Xue, Sen Social networks and mental health outcomes: Chinese rural–urban migrant experience. JOPE 33, 155–195 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-019-00748-3 Free to read: https://rdcu.be/dpLbO
Handling Editor: Klaus F. Zimmermann
Rank 12: Tang, C., Zhao, Liqiu & Zhao, Zhong Does free education help combat child labor? The effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China. JOPE 33, 601–631 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-019-00741-w Free to read: https://rdcu.be/dpU9i
Handling Editor: Junsen Zhang

Day 1: Saturday. October 7, 2023

Day 2: Sunday. October 8, 2023

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Reflections and debate on the 40th Anniversary of the School of Labor and Human Resources of Renmin University of China. A large day-long event took place on October 4, 2023 at Renmin University, Beijing, China. Since its creation, GLO had annual research conferences with the School, the 6th RUC-GLO conference took place on October 7-8, 2023. However, GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann had organized international collaborations and exchange with the School already over a period of three decades before in his previous roles as Founding Director of IZA Bonn (for two decades) and his tenure as Professor and Director of SELPO at the University of Munich (in the decade before).

Consequently, the GLO President was one of the main (and the only foreign) speakers among a long list of distinguished authorities during the morning (19 speeches) congratulating the School for its rise to excellence, success and international recognition. Zimmermann said: “I extend my heartfelt congratulations on your decades of escalating success! The success reflects your commitment to advancing science, particularly in the field of economics through research and policy advice. Your contributions through international visibility and collaborations are commendable. Since its establishment in 1983, the School has grown into a leading institution in labor research and education in China with global recognition. One of its notable achievements includes the creation of China’s first research program for a PhD degree in labor economics in 1994, among many others. The School has made significant strides in areas such as employment, income distribution, labor relations, human resource development and management, social security, and more.”

The presentations in the afternoon discussed the evolution of the discipline and the contributions the School was engaged with. In this context, Klaus F. Zimmermann gave a speech on “Family Economics: From Constraints to Preferences and Stereotypes” reviewing also the collaborative work he has done and is still doing with Chinese researchers. He further detailed the long-term contacts he has been involved with and thanked in particular former Dean Xiangquan Zeng and current Dean Zhong Zhao for the many years of successful collaborations.

In a special speech, Dean Zhong Zhao honored Xiangquan Zeng and Klaus F. Zimmermann in the name of the School for their long-term strong efforts to foster scientific collaborations with a certificate (see below).

On Friday October 6, 2023 Xiangquan Zeng gave an opening speech at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Labor Society which also took place at Renmin University of China. Klaus F. Zimmermann was invited to deliver a keynote lecture on “Migrant Local Identity and Labor Market Success”.

October 4, 2023; Morning Session.

40th Anniversary of the School of Labor and Human Resources of Renmin University of China: Building a Discipline of Labor Economics and Management with Chinese Characteristics

First row GLO Fellows Yang Du & Desheng Lai; second row, right Zhong Zhao, Dean of the School (and GLO Fellow) on his way to provide his speech at the end of the morning celebrations.

October 4, 2023; Afternoon Session.

40th Anniversary of the School of Labor and Human Resources of Renmin University of China: Global Forum of Labor Economics and Management Disciplines

GLO Fellow Xiangquan Zeng and Klaus F. Zimmermann receiving the certificates of the School of Labor and Human Resources of Renmin University.

Dean Zhong Zhao and Klaus F. Zimmermann with respect for the achievements.

October 6, 2023

2023 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Labor Society

Renmin University of China Professor Xiangquan Zeng during his opening speech at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Labor Society.

GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann delivered a keynote lecture on “Migrant Local Identity and Labor Market Success”.

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The 6th IESR-GLO joint workshop on “Gender Issues and Domestic Violence” takes place in Guangzhou, Jinan University, China, on October 26-27, 2023. The event is jointly organized by the Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) of Jinan University and the Global Labor Organization (GLO) with the support of the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE).

Day 1 October 26
12:00-2:00 PM Lunch

2:00-2:45 PM

• Welcome Shuaizhang Feng, Jinan University and GLO
  
• Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) & IESR-GLO Collaboration
  Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT and GLO, JOPE Editor-in-Chief
  
  Recommended reading: Prettyman, A., Ribar, D.C. (2022). Child Abuse and Neglect. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_234-1

Session I – Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann

2:45-3:30 PM

• Intimate Partner Violence and Child Health

Tushar Bharati (University of Western Australia), Michael Dockery (Curtin University),
Astghik Mavisakalyan (Curtin University and GLO) and Loan Vu (Curtin University)

3:30-4:00 PM Break

4:00-4:45 PM 

• No Pain, More Gain: Anti-domestic Violence Law and Female Wages in Rural China

Liu Xinyan, CUHK and GLO

4:45-5:30 PM

• Women, Violence and Work: Threat of Sexual Violence and Women’s Decision to Work

Tanika Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Management and GLO; Nafisa Lohawala,
University of Michigan

5:30 PM: JOPE internal meeting

Day 2 October 27

Session II – Chair: Sen Xue

9:00-:9:45 AM

• The Impact of Ozone Pollution on Mortality: Evidence from China

Yunning Liu, Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control; Yun Qiu, Jinan University and GLO; Wei Shi, Jinan University and GLO; Maigeng Zhou, Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control

9:45-10:30 AM

• Parental Migration, Parenting and Children’s Skill Development

Shuaizhang Feng, Jinan University and GLO; James J. Heckman, University of Chicago and GLO; Jun Hyung Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and GLO; Yuejie Han, Jinan University; Sen Xue, Jinan University and GLO

10:30-11:00 AM Break

Session III – Chair: Shuaizhang Feng

11:00-11:45 AM

• Shaping Gender Role Attitudes: Intergenerational Impacts of Parental Occupational Differences during Adolescence

Shu Cai, Jinan University and GLO; Wei Luo, Jinan University and GLO; Zheng Zhong, Jinan University

11:45-12:30 AM 

• Parental Gender Stereotypes and Student Wellbeing in China

Shuai Chu, Renmin University and GLO, Xiangquan Zeng, Renmin University and GLO & Klaus
F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT and GLO

Summary
Shuaizhang Feng, Jinan University & GLO

Lunch

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The Bank of Italy is pleased to announce a one-day workshop on “Human Capital” to be held on March 22, 2024.

The workshop brings together leading researchers in the field of education and human capital to present their theoretical and empirical research.

The deadline to submit a paper is January 8, 2024.

The keynote lecture will be given by Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario).

The scientific committee is composed by: Giulia Bovini, Antonio Dalla Zuanna, Domenico Depalo, Annalisa Loviglio (University of Bologna), Monica Langella (University of Naples Federico II).

We kindly ask you to circulate the call and submit your research.

More information:
https://www.bancaditalia.it/media/notizia/4th-bank-of-italy-human-capital-workshop/?com.dotmarketing.htmlpage.language

The post was suggested by GLO Fellow Domenico Depalo.

Featured image: david-kohler-unsplash

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The 46th EBES Conference – Rome will take place on January 10th,11th, and 12th, 2024 in Rome, Italy. The conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association and organized in Hybrid Mode (online and in-person).

Interested researchers from around the world are cordially invited to submit their abstracts or papers for presentation considerations.

Deadline for Abstract/Paper Submission is November 30, 2023.

EBES Executive Board

Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, and Free University Berlin
Prof. Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin, Istanbul Medeniyet University, EBES, Turkey
Prof. Jonathan Batten, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
Prof. Dorothea Schäfer, German Institute for Economic Research DIW Berlin, Germany
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Abstract/Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts or papers no later than November 30, 2023.

For submission, please visit our website at https://ebesweb.org/46th-ebes-conference-rome/46th-abstract-submission/ no submission fee is required.

General inquiries regarding the call for papers should be directed to ebes@ebesweb.org

Publication Opportunities

Qualified papers can be published in EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) or EBES proceedings books after a peer review process without any submission or publication fees. EBES journals (EABR and EAER) are published by Springer and both are indexed in the SCOPUS, EBSCO EconLit with Full Text, Google Scholar, ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide, CNKI, EBSCO Business Source, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, ProQuest ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Business Premium Collection, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Turkey Database, ProQuest-ExLibris Primo, ProQuest-ExLibris Summon, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Naver, SCImago, ABDC Journal Quality List, Cabell’s Directory, and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. In addition, while EAER is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), EABR is indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Also, all accepted abstracts will be published electronically in the Conference Program and the Abstract Book (with an ISBN number). It will be distributed to all conference participants at the conference via USB. Although submitting full papers are not required, all the submitted full papers will also be included in the conference proceedings in a USB.

After the conference, participants will also have the opportunity to send their paper to be published (after a refereeing process managed by EBES) in the Springer’s series Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (no submission and publication fees). This is indexed by Scopus. It will also be sent to Clarivate Analytics in order to be reviewed for coverage in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, and 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29 (Vol. 1), and 30th EBES Conference Proceedings are accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH). Other conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Conference Date: January 10-12, 2024
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 30, 2023
Reply-by: December 10, 2023*
Registration Deadline: December 19, 2023
Submission of the Virtual Presentation: December 20, 2023
Announcement of the Program: December 25, 2023
Paper Submission Deadline (Optional): December 20, 2023**
Paper Submission for the EBES journals: March 16, 2024

* The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week of submission.

** Completed paper submission is optional. If you want to be considered for the Best Paper Award or your full paper to be included in the conference proceedings in the USB, after submitting your abstract before November 30, 2023, you must also submit your completed (full) paper by December 20, 2023.

Contact

Ugur Can, Director of EBES (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir, Conference Coordinator of EBES (demir@ebesweb.org)

Conference LINK

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative “has now been active for ten years and has led to China engaging in $1.01 trillion worth of investment and construction in 148 countries around the world.” (statista) The initiative has been under debate ever since the beginning.

• Lauren A. Johnston (2023). China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Human Capital Implications. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_412-1
  
  In 2013 China launched a flagship global development and geoeconomics initiative, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). From the lens of the contents of the two launch speeches the BRI can be understood as having five policy-related objectives which should be achieved via and alongside five delivery-related principles. These include direct human resources–related objectives, including fostering people-to-people ties, and goals that have vast implicit human resources–related implications, including those calling for fostering greater trade and investment. This chapter outlines those launch speeches, and China’s economic circumstances at the time of their delivery. This sets the context for onward elaboration of the BRI’s human resources–related policy announcements and goals, and the mechanisms for their delivery, including educational scholarships and in-country technical and vocational training, alongside language training, mainly via Confucius Institutes. Since none of China’s BRI activities happen in a controlled vacuum, and the BRI’s implementation context typically varies across time, country, and sector, it is difficult to draw specific human resource–related conclusions as to the BRI’s related implications. Case studies around the use of Chinese labor, and Chinese management, are, however, explored, and emphasis is placed on capacity to co-shape the human resources–related evolution of the BRI going forward.
  
  
• Michele Bruni (2022). China, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Century of Great Migration. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  GLO Interview with the author.
  
  
• 2019 IESR-GLO Workshop on ‘Belt and Road’ – Labor Markets.
  

Source: statista

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The 45th EBES Conference took place on October 11-13, 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. The conference was hosted by Mathias Corvinus Collegium and organized in Hybrid Mode (online and in-person). GLO & EBES President Klaus F. Zimmermann gave a welcome speech together with Ender Demir (EBES) and Zoltan Csefalvay (Mathias Corvinus Collegium). Zimmermann also chaired the Editors’ Panel Session presenting the two EBES journals Eurasian Economic Review and the Eurasian Business Review next to his own Journal of Population Economics.

EBES 45 Budapest Conference Program

The next conferences were discussed and announced (mark your calendars):

• January 10-12, 2024: Rome, Italy.  46th EBES HYBRID conference. Submission deadline November 30, 2023.  Call for contributions.
  
• April 18-20, 2024: Berlin, Germany. 47th EBES HYBRID conference. (The first two days will be in person only.) Jointly Organized with GLO and FOM University of Applied Sciences, Berlin. GLO will organize a separate program part with separate registration and paper call. Participants will have access to all program parts of both conferences.

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