The Academia Europaea 29th Annual Conference 2017 takes place from September 3 – 6, 2017 in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. During this meeting on September 4, 2017, Zimmermann has been confirmed as Section Chair of “Economics, Business and Management Sciences” by the AE Council for another period of three years until the end of 2020. See also a related note on GLO Fellow Andreu Mas-Colell.

The Academia Europaea (AE) is The Academy of Europe, Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT Maastricht, Bonn University, and Rockefeller Foundation Policy Fellow) is the President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and Section Chair of “Economics, Business and Management Sciences” of the AE.

Zimmermann in front of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest

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The Academia Europaea (AE), The Academy of Europe, has awarded its prestigious Erasmus Medal in 2017 to Andreu Mas-Colell.  Andreu is a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE) and its section “Economics, Business and Management Sciences”, a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), and one of the most prominent European economists of our time. For more details on the medal and the award winner.

In response to this honor, Andreu Mas-Colell will deliver a lecture on

“Is the era of work ending?”

during the Academia Europaea 29th Annual Conference 2017 in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, on Tuesday September 5, 2017.

Andreu Mas-Colell delivers a speculative talk on the future of work – and jobs – in economies subject to the scientific and technological advances associated with mechanization. Three propositions are defended: (i) that if it is made an overwhelming priority of public policy, the minimization of work is a possibility in the long-run, (ii) that the natural development of our managed economies will not necessarily lead to this outcome, and (iii) that this minimization of the role of work is an undesirable outcome that should not be fostered.

Andreu Mas-Colell, University Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and Barcelona GSE, MAE & GLO; Recipient of the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea 2017; former Minister for Universities and Research and former Minister of Economy and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia.

Hungarian Academy of Science

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On September 1, the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) & the WageIndicator Foundation organized the 2017 Annual Conference on “Wages in Global Perspective: Monitoring Wages Worldwide through WageIndicator“. The conference took place at KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Mauritskade 63, 1092 AD Amsterdam. The conference program can be found HERE.

The event was lead by WageIndicator Foundation Director Paulien Osse and has honored AIAS Research Professsor Kea Tijdens, who just retired formally from her university obligations. Kea will continue to work for WageIndicator and AIAS, however.

The very successful WageIndicator movement had been initiated by Osse and Tijdens in 1999, and has now websites in more than 92 countries around the world and presents detailed information on all kinds of self-reported wages and salaries. The WageIndicator project is strongly supported by the GLO.  AIAS and the WageIndicator Foundation are partner institutions of the Global Labor Organization (GLO).

Osse and Tijdens are both GLO Fellows, while WageIndicator Foundation Director Paulien Osse also serves as a member of the GLO Founding Council and the GLO Advisory Board. Among the conference speakers were also GLO Fellow Martin Guzi (Masaryk Uni Brno and CELSI, Bratislava) and GLO Fellow Martin Kahanec (Central European University, Budapest, and CELSI, Bratislava) as well as GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO & UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University), among others.

 

AIAS Research Professor Kea Tijdens & GLO Fellow

The event was an impressive documentation of the broad contributions for research and policy making the project has made since its start. It has enabled an entire generation of researchers to generate their work and  build careers.

The conference also discussed the future of the project. It is the intention to substantially increase the country coverage, to strengthen the methodological basis and to push for important new program areas including inequality, migration and the future of Africa.

Paulien Osse, WageIndicator Foundation & GLO Fellow, will continue leading and managing the important venture. GLO President Zimmermann announced the strong interest of his organization, to support the WageIndicator movement.

Paulien Osse and Klaus F. Zimmermann after the successful event.

Klaus F. Zimmermann in front of the conference venue, the KIT Royal Tropical Institute.

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On a forthcoming trip through Europe, GLO Fellow John P. Haisken-DeNew of Melbourne University will also visit POP at UNU-MERIT on September 18, 2017. He will exchange his recent research and present a paper in the UNU-MERIT seminar at noon on:

Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices

The seminar will be chaired by Hugo Confraria (Joint UNU-MERIT/MGSoG Seminar Series). Klaus F. Zimmermann, Co-Director of POP at UNU-MERIT and President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) will be present.

Further information on John P. Haisken – DeNew.

GLO Fellow John P. Haisken-DeNew

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The 28th Australian Labour Market Research (ALMR) Workshop showcases high-quality labour economic research that engages actively with policy makers. The workshop will be held on 6-7 December 2017 at The Realm Hotel, 18 National Circuit Barton, Canberra, Australia.

The event takes place under the leadership of GLO Fellow Boyd Hunter (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University). GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann will provide a keynote on “The European Migration Challenge”.

The timing of the 2017 ALMR Workshop is designed to dovetail with the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) Inaugural Conference to be held in Canberra on 7-9 December 2017.  Please note that the AASLE Conference is a SEPARATE event from the 2017 ALMR Workshop and people wanting to attend both will need to register separately for each event. One can register for the 2017 ALMR Workshop at Eventbrite.

GLO Fellow Boyd Hunter

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Hosted by the School of Public Policy (CEU) and organized by the Section “Economics, Business and Management Sciences” of the Academia Europaea with the support of the Global Labor Organization (GLO):

All interested are invited  to participate at an event on

“The Scientist and Policy Making”

on Wednesday, September 6, 2017, 9:30 – 11:00 am, at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. The address is CEU, Nador u. 15, H1051 Budapest.

Evidence-free policy making is on the move. This is a particular challenge for the relationship between scientists and policymakers. A workshop with a high-ranked panel of scientists in Budapest engaged in policy advice and policy-making will debate this in the face of the ongoing debate about the future of the Central European University (CEU).

The GLO had early on supported the CEU in this challenge. The same has Academia Europaea (AE) and its President as so many of the members of AE (MAE’s).

Welcome: Martin Kahanec, Central European University (CEU), CELSI, MAE; Acting Head of the School of Public Policy; Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO); Founding Scientific Director of CELSI.

Panel Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University & MAE; President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), Section Chair of the Academia Europaea for “Economics, Business and Management Sciences”; Former President of DIW Berlin & Founding Director of IZA.

Participants on the panel:

Martin Kahanec, CEU, CELSI, MAE & GLO

Andreu Mas-Colell, University Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and Barcelona GSE, MAE & GLO; Recipient of the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea 2017; former Minister for Universities and Research and former Minister of Economy and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia

Sergiu Hart, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & MAE;   Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Rationality

Frederick van der Ploeg, Oxford University, MAE  & GLO ; Former State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science, the Netherlands, former Member of the Dutch Parliament

Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann (promoting their recent jointly edited book on the benefits of EU enlargement)

# We all stand with CEU!

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The GLO – affiliated Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) invites researchers to present their work at the 24th EBES Conference in Bangkok/Thailand on January 10-12, 2018. The event is jointly organized with the Faculty of Business Administration of Kasetsart University. The Submission Deadline is October 31, 2017. The GLO is the Global Labor Organization.

Call for Contributions
You are cordially invited to submit your abstracts or papers for presentation consideration at the 24th EBES Conference that will take place on January 10-12, 2018 at the Novotel Bangkok on Siam Square in Bangkok, Thailand, jointly organized with the Faculty of Business Administration, Kasetsart University.

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.

Keynote Speakers
Prof. Jonathan Batten, Monash University, Australia
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Board
Prof. Jonathan Batten, Monash University, Australia
Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Prof. Peter Rangazas, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, U.S.A.
Prof. Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. John Rust, Georgetown University, U.S.A., and GLO
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy, and GLO
Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and GLO

Abstract/Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit their abstracts or papers no later than October 31, 2017. For submission, please visit the website. 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 the EBES journals (no submission and publication fees). EBES journals (Eurasian Business Review and Eurasian Economic Review) are published by Springer and indexed in the Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science), EconLit, EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest, ABI/INFORM, Business Source,  International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), OCLC, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Summon by ProQuest, TOC Premier, Cabell’s Directory, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, and Google Scholar.

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 fees).

This will also be sent to Thomson Reuters in order to be reviewed for coverage in its Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Please note that the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 17th EBES Conference Proceedings are accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index. 16th, 18th and subsequent conference proceedings are in progress.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: October 31, 2017
Reply-by: November 8, 2017
Registration deadline: December 4, 2017
Announcement of the Program: December 7, 2017

Contact
Ugur Can (ebes@ebesweb.org)
Dr. Ender Demir (demir@ebesweb.org) and GLO

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GLO Fellow Niaz Asadullah is Professor at the University of Malaya and GLO South-East Asia Cluster Head and GLO Malaysia Lead.

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The Experimental Economics Lab presents the 1st International Scientific Conference on Economics in a Changing World. The event takes place on August 27-28 2017 in Umag/Croatia in one of the best holiday resorts of the country.

The impressive conference program with keynote speakers Joshua Angrist (MIT), Alan B. Krueger (Princeton University) and Henry Farber (Princeton University) together with a larger number of contributed papers is now online.

The conference is jointly organized with the Adriatic Economic Association and supported by the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and the World Academy of Art and Science. The organizational team of the event is lead by Dejan Kovac (Princeton University and GLO).

Among the speakers are GLO Fellows Joshua Angrist (MIT), Stepan Jurajda (CERGE-EI) and Dejan Kovac (Princeton University), GLO Affiliate Patrick Nüß (Kiel University), GLO Managing Director Matloob Piracha (University of Kent) and GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT). Stepan Jurajda and Klaus F. Zimmermann are also chairing sessions on Financial Economics and Econometrics,  (Jurajda) and Political Economy (Zimmermann).

“In the past decade, we have witnessed how different sets of events can trigger global economic changes. From the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis to today’s increasing number of political and conflict-related shocks, no nation’s economy has proven resistant to these changes. The complexity of interactions between economic and political factors has increased and these elements ought to be incorporated into future policies. A new development agenda should carry forward the spirit of active response to changes, seeking an answer to the questions of what should and can be done to anticipate changes and transform economies for the better. Practical focus of the Conference is highlighting the agenda of challenges, topics of migrations, national security, poverty, education, economic growth and healthcare to fulfill our vision of promoting sustainable development worldwide.”

    Dejan Kovac (Princeton University and GLO)

   Matloob Piracha (University of Kent and GLO)

     Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT and GLO)

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On September 1, the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) & the WageIndicator Foundation will organize their 2017 Annual Conference on “Wages in Global Perspective: Monitoring Wages Worldwide through WageIndicator“. AIAS and the WageIndicator Foundation are partner institutions of the Global Labor Organization (GLO).

The event is lead by WageIndicator Foundation Director Paulien Osse and AIAS Research Coordinator Kea Tijdens. The WageIndicator movement had been initiated by Osse and Tijdens in 1999, and has now websites in more than 92 countries around the world and presents detailed information on all kinds of self-reported wages and salaries. The WageIndicator project is strongly supported by the GLO.

Osse and Tijdens are both GLO Fellows, while WageIndicator Foundation Director Paulien Osse also serves as a member of the GLO Founding Council and the GLO Advisory Board. Among the conference speakers are also GLO Fellow Martin Guzi (Masaryk Uni Brno and CELSI, Bratislava) and GLO Fellow Martin Kahanec (Central European University, Budapest, and CELSI, Bratislava) as well as GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO & UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University), among others.

The conference will take place at KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Mauritskade 63, 1092 AD Amsterdam.

 

How to keep high skilled manufacturing jobs to stay in Melbourne and Adelaide?

Prof. Dr. John P. Haisken-DeNew (Melbourne Institute and GLO Cluster Leader “Employment Structural Transitions”) presented at the Melbourne Institute/The Australian’s “Economic and Social Outlook” Conference “New Directions in an Uncertain World” (http://melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/outlook), July 20, 2017. Haisken-DeNew is also a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and its Country Lead for Australia.

As Haisken-DeNew reports, “The Australian auto assembly industry will be closing by October 2017. That means some 7000 workers not only in the primary assembly plants, but tens of thousands also in the entire supply chain and further ripple-on effects. This impacts negatively on Melbourne and Adelaide greatly where the industry was concentrated. In order to keep employment in these cities, we need to focus on developments that will provide incentives for high skilled manufacturing jobs to stay in these cities.”

“‘Smarter Energy’ offers these opportunities. Smarter Energy uses (only now very cheap) Lithium-Ion batteries to store electricity in the evenings when there is excess production of electricity, which can then the next morning be reintroduced into the grid to provide additional capacity and stabilise the grid. This will also help us reach our clean energy targets and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. This “Smarter Energy” idea is currently being implemented in Toronto, in part by former auto industry workers and engineers! This is happening NOW in Canada. Australia needs to learn from Canada and implement this in Australia to keep employment in the former industrialised cities of Melbourne and Adelaide, and launch them into the next century of growth, jobs, and environmental protection. This is a win-win for all. The latest South Australia announcement of the Tesla super battery being installed demonstrates proof of concept. We need a consortium of auto companies, coal companies, universities/research organisations and government, to come together to ensure that this happens!”

YouTube Streaming Video:  https://youtu.be/PoamEpgL5Eo

Conference Slides: https://www.dropbox.com/s/al9i1acmimsep3r/Outlook_JPHD_FINAL.pdf?dl=0

GLO Fellow John P. Haisken-DeNew

Haisken-DeNew during his speech in Melbourne

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Note the dates: The 25th Conference of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) will take place on May 23-25, 2018 in Berlin/Germany. It is jointly organized with the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and hosted by the FOM University in their Berlin study center. The conference with further information including the Call for Papers can be found here.

Abstract submission for the 25th EBES Conference will start on November 3, 2017 with a deadline on February 28, 2018. The decision regarding the acceptance/rejection of each abstract/paper will be communicated with the corresponding author within a week after submission.

Klaus F. Zimmermann (GLO President & POP at UNU-MERIT, Maastricht) will be given the EBES Fellow Award 2018  after Giovanni Dosi (2017) and M. Hashem Pesaran (2016). Further details.

EBES recently announced updated executive and advisory boards and the editorial board of the Eurasian Economic Review (EAER):

• GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann, from the UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, joined the EBES Executive Board and EAER Editorial Board.

• GLO Fellow Giuseppe Ciccarone, from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, joined the EAER Editorial Board.

• Steven Ongena, from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, joined the EBES Advisory Board.

• Russ Vince, from the University of Bath, United Kingdom, joined the EBES Advisory Board.

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GLO Fellow Shoshana Grossbard creates Society for Household Economics.  A new scientific society has been created on June 25 and 26, 2017 during the first annual meetings of the Society of Economics of the Household (SEHO) in San Diego, California, USA. The event took place at the San Diego City College. SEHO was organized by Shoshana Grossbard, San Diego State University and GLO Fellow (Global Labor Organization, GLO), who is also the Editor of the Review of Economics of the Household (REHO).

Klaus F. Zimmermann, Princeton University, UNU-MERIT and President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), had provided to the conference a keynote speech on “Well-being and Health Shocks in Rural Households”. GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics and the founder of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) more than 30 years ago.

Many more than 120 participants (among them a larger number of GLO Fellows) enjoyed a high-quality, lively and exciting conference program with a larger number of contributed sessions and further keynote speeches by Daniela Del Boca (University of Turin, Collegio Carlo Alberto, and New York University), Charles Horioka (Asian Growth Research Institute, Kitakyushu City, Japan, and Osaka University) and Gigi Foster (University of New South Wales).

GLO President on SEHO Head Shoshana Grossbard and the congress: “A timely and brilliant idea, and an event packed with excellent research, fresh ideas and full of charm. Thanks, Shoshana for the hard work behind the scene to make this possible.”

GLO Fellow Shoshana Grossbard (San Diego State University) at the conference opening…..

GLO President Zimmermann (Princeton University, UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University) during his keynote to the SEHO 2017.

After one week of intense work, the World Congress 2017 of the International Economic Association (IEA) in Mexico City ended on June 23, 2017. The IEA brings together scientific societies, individual researchers, and the policy community of the world. The congress was directed by the former Chief Economist of the World Bank, Kaushik Basu (Cornell University), who had prepared with his team a large program that was executed on 19-23 June, 2017. With the presence of Nobel Prize Winners George Akerlof, Roger Myerson, Jo Stiglitz and a large number of key economists from a representative variety of countries from around the globe the exchange was inspiring and productive.

Klaus F. Zimmermann (Princeton University, UNU-MERIT and GLO) presented his invited paper on Tuesday, June 20, on “The Challenges of Refugee Migration”.

Zimmermann is President of the Global Labor organization (GLO). His presentation was in the session on “The Challenges of Illegal Migration and Refugees”. The other speakers were Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (San Diego State University and GLO) and Pia Orrenius (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and GLO). The session was chaired by Corrado Giulietti (University of Southampton and GLO).

Other GLO Fellows present at the meeting included Kaushik Basu, Alessandro Cigno, Giovanni Facchini, Jan Fidrmuc, Martin Kahanec, Alexander Kritikos, Patrick Puhani, Rodrigo Soares and Jackie Wahba, among many others.

GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann, also linked to Princeton, Bonn & Maastricht Universities, in the conference hotel Camino Real.

Zimmermann in the old city.

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