Dear Friends of GLO:

We are enjoying an exciting and successful first year.

Best wishes for the holidays and the New Year!

Klaus F. Zimmermann, GLO President  & Staff

Sydney/Australia Near-by the Waterfront; 12 December 2017. GLO Training Camp — Globalists at Work.

Melbourne/Australia; 17 December 2017.

Frankfurt/Main Airport, Germany; 19 December 2017.

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The Global Labor Organization (GLO) was represented at the Forum on Migration, Trade and the Global Economy on December 14, 2017, in Buenos Aires by Martin Kahanec, CEU professor and member of GLO’s Advisory Board and leader of its “EU Mobility” and “Hungary” thematic and geographic clusters, respectively.  Also present was GLO’s Slovak cluster leader and Managing Director at the Bratislava-based Central European Labor Studies Institute (CELSI), Marta Kahancová.

The Forum was organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Fundación Foro del Sur (FFS), and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) as a side event of the 11^th WTO Ministerial Conference taking place in Buenos Aires during the same week. See IOM reporting.

The opening panel stressed the importance of the nexus between migration and trade, and highlighted the relevance of the event for this under-researched topic. “It is obvious that migrants contribute to trade and investment through their work, small businesses, knowledge and technology; however, we are aware that more research on the link between migration and trade is required,” underscored Diego Beltrand, IOM’s Regional Director for South America.

In the ensuing panels leading experts, policymakers and researches explored key migration questions such as policies and frameworks governing international migrations; their relation to international flows of goods, services, investment and knowledge; and the impact of digital technologies, innovation networks, diaspora communities, as well as regional integration processes and bilateral and multi-lateral mobility agreements.

In his contribution, Martin Kahanec advanced three arguments. First, demographic transitions in most advanced economies feature aging, lack of dynamic, entrepreneurial, and innovative labor, and risks for public budgets. Mobile workers may help to alleviate the economic vulnerabilities associated with these demographic trends by bringing in young and dynamic workers where they are needed.

Second, Europe’s experience shows that labor mobility comes with a policy challenge: In spite of prevailing evidence of generally positive impacts of migration on host countries, natives tend to look upon immigration with aversion and fear. A negative policy spiral may start spinning: negative attitudes of voters result in ill-chosen policies, which in turn drive negative labor market and social outcomes and these, completing the circle, fuel further negative attitudes.

Third, research conducted in cooperation within the GLO network shows that the notions that immigrants crowd natives out of their jobs, lower their wages, steal their welfare, or target countries with generous welfare provision are unfounded. To the contrary, this research shows that immigration fosters trade, creates jobs in the long run, and immigrants are more responsive to labor shortages than the natives. This last finding is important, as it implies that immigrants go precisely to those sectors, occupations and countries which need them most.

“The bottom line is that free mobility of labor has a definite potential to benefit the receiving countries, but to enable such benefits politicians must engage in a dialogue with their voters to explain the benefits and opportunities free mobility entails, as well as effective strategies of coping with any actual or perceived risks of immigration”, concluded Kahanec.

GLO Fellow Martin Kahanec in Buenos Aires

Kahanec making his presentation to the conference

GLO Fellows Marta Kahancová and Kahanec in Buenos Aires

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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) together with partners ICTSD and Fundancion Foro del Sur will host on December 14, 2017 in Buenos Aires a

Forum on Migration, Trade & the Global Economy.

The Forum will discuss the active role of international trade in achieving safe and regular migration between representatives from government, private sector, civil society and other relevant actors. The event also seeks to strengthen networks in the South America region and beyond. It will consist of five plenary sessions, as well as two parallel and one special session, dealing with innovation and technology, regional economic integration and policy coherence on migration and trade, among other topics.

The invited GLO – representative of the Global Labor Organization will be Martin Kahanec. GLO-Fellow Kahanec is Professor and Acting Head of the School of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. He will speak at the Forum about

“Labor Mobility in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities for Trade”.

Also speaking is GLO-Fellow Sonia Plaza of the World Bank on:

“Regional integration and labor mobility: Specific linkages with trade policy”

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The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is collaborating with various journals like the International Journal of Manpower  and the Journal of Population Economics, among others. Here are recent products or new ventures:

Journal of Population Economics

• Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2018 is PUBLISHED. Here is the access to the TABLE OF CONTENT of the ten top articles freshly published. (Editors are Alessandro Cigno, Erdal Tekin, Junsen Zhang and Klaus F. Zimmermann.)

International Journal of Manpower

• Volume 38, Issue 7, 2017 is PUBLISHED. Special Issue: Labor adjustment in the European economic area during the Great Recession. Here is the access to the TABLE OF CONTENT of the eight top articles freshly published. (Special Issue Editors are Martin Kahanec, Martin Suster and Klaus F. Zimmermann.)
• Call for Papers for a Special Issue on: “Sexual Orientation and the Labor Market”. Submissions will be accepted up until the 31th of August 2018.  Please study details of the CALL HERE. (Special Issue Editors are Nick Drydakis and Klaus F. Zimmermann.)
• Call for Papers for a Special Issue on: “The School to Work Transition: Cross-Country Differences, Evolution and Reforms”. Submissions will be accepted until the 15th of February 2018.  Please study details of the CALL HERE. (Special Issue Editors are Francesco Pastore and Klaus F. Zimmermann.)

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Important health research and policy event at Yale University organized by the China Health Policy and Management Society and GLO Fellow Xi Chen of Yale University, and supported, among others, by the Global Labor Organization (GLO). GLO is organizing one session at the event.

 Advances in Health Policy and Healthcare: The Road Ahead

China Health Policy and Management Society 2^nd Biennial Conference & a Celebration of the 10^th Anniversary of China Health Policy and Management Society (2008-2018)

Yale University: May 11-13, 2018

Purpose: This is the 2nd biennial meeting of China Health Policy and Management Society (CHPAMS) and its official journal China Health Review. The meeting’s theme is Advances in Health Policy and Healthcare: The Road Ahead, with a special focus on Healthy China 2030 national blueprint. Since October 2016, Healthy China 2030 (HC 2030), a national program of action to promote the health of 1.3 billion Chinese population, has been central to the Chinese Government’s agenda for health and development, and has the potential to benefit the rest of the world. This conference aims to bridge our minds and draw upon global wisdom in the advances of health policy and health care in China. Participants will include national health officials from China, U.S. public health NGO representatives, world-class scholars from the U.S., China, and other regions in the world, entrepreneurs in the health sector, and so on. Through this platform, participants will have the opportunity to establish professional networks with leaders in the field and enhance their professional career development. The Board of Directors of CHPAMS and Editorial Board of CHR will host business meetings and communicate with engaged members to further promote the organization and the journal to a new stage.

Co-sponsors: China Medical Board, Yale School of Public Health, Yale Macmillan Center, Yale-China Association,Chinese Economists Society, Global Labor Organization

Opening Addresses: Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in New York, China Medical Board, China Health Policy and Management Society, Yale School of Public Health

Keynote Speakers

Lincoln Chen, M.D., President, China Medical Board

Paul Cleary, Ph.D., Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Former Dean, Yale School of Public Health

Michael Grossman, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Health Economics Program, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Advisory Board Member, CHPAMS

T Paul Schultz, Ph.D., Malcolm K. Brachman Professor Emeritus in Economics, Former Director of Economic Growth Center, Yale University and GLO

Sten H. Vermund, M.D., Ph.D., Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Dean, Yale School of Public Health

Gonghuan Yang, M.D., Professor and Former Vice Director, China National CDC

Winnie Yip, Ph.D.; Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Advisory Board Member, CHPAMS

Invited Sessions and Panels

Special Session(s): Environment, Health, Health Care and Human Capital  (Joint with Global Labor Organization)

Special Session: “Mining Gold” from Big Data in Healthcare

Hongyu Zhao, Department Chair and Ira V. Hiscock Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Genetics, Statistics and Data Science, Yale University

Shuangge Steven Ma, Professor of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health

Roundtable: Healthy China 2030 (TBC)

Paul Cleary, Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health; Former Dean, Yale School of Public Health

Harlan M Krumholz, Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine; Director, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital

Special Session: Behavioral Health Innovations

Jody L. Sindelar, Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and Economics, Yale University and Entrepreneurs from Health Tech Companies

Roundtable: Environment, Climate Change and Health (Joint with Yale Climate Change and Health Initiative)

Michelle L. Bell, Mary E. Pinchot Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Professor of Environmental Health, Yale University

Robert Dubrow, Faculty Director of the Climate Change and Health Initiative, Yale University

Yawei Zhang, Section Chief Surgical Outcomes and Epidemiology, Yale Department of Surgery; Associate Professor, Yale School of Public Health

Special Reception: Celebrating 10^th Anniversary of CHPAMS

Call for abstracts and organized sessions: The call for abstracts and proposed sessions for CHPAMS Biennial Meetings to be held at Yale University May 11-13, 2018 is now open! We welcome abstracts and sessions on any public health issues in the fields of health economics, system science, global health, health policy, health care management, and/or epidemiology, preferably related to China. Methodological or theoretical innovations related to health policy and management are also encouraged. Organized sessions and individual abstracts will be accepted for consideration by the Scientific Committee. If an organized session is not accepted, the papers included in that session will be considered as individual abstract submissions; abstracts not accepted for oral presentation will be considered for poster presentation. Notification of acceptance will be made no later than January 15, 2018.

Please use our co-sponsor Chinese Economists Society’s online submission page to submit individual abstracts now through December 31, 2017. https://www.china-ces.org/Conferences/ConferenceDefault.aspx?ID=48 No CES membership fee is required in order to submit your session or abstract. Each abstract submission should include authors’ names, affiliation, and the corresponding author’s contact information. A 250-word structured abstract (introduction, method, results, and discussion) is expected.

Each organized session should consist of 3-4 individual papers. Each proposal should contain a tentative name of the session, titles of papers along with their abstracts, as well as names and e-mails of session presenters. If you would like to organize one or more sessions on a specific topic and have speakers/presenters lined up, please submit your proposal to Dr. Zhuo (Adam) CHEN for approval at zchen1@uga.edu by December 15^th, 2017.

At least one of the coauthors need to be a registered member of CHPAMS. When submitting the abstract, please indicate which coauthor(s) is a CHPAMS member. CHPAMS membership is open to all with no membership fee. To register, please visit http://www.chpams.org/member-registration/.

The Best Abstract Award: All authors, whether submitting through individual abstracts or organized sessions, have the option to indicate whether this abstract will compete for “Best Abstract Award.” The winner will receive $200 plus a certificate, and the full article will be invited to be published in the fall 2018 issue of China Health Review.

Conference Registration and Travel Support

1. Registration fee is $100 (by April 15, 2018) and $150 (starting from April 16, 2018), which covers conference materials, food, and other services.
2. For all CHPAMS registered members who are current students and pay the conference registration fee by March 31, 2018, CHPAMS will provide $100 travel subsidy to the attendees.
3. Limited number of travel fellowships ($250) will be provided for students who pay the conference registration fee and whose abstract is accepted for oral presentation. To apply, email member@chpams.org with an updated CV.
4. To receive any of the incentives, participants must be registered as a CHPAMS member on www.chpams.org and pay the conference registration fee.

Job Placement Service:

We call for participation of Chinese universities or other entities to recruit talents during the CHPAMS Biennial Conference. CHPAMS will provide the platform of job matching, including organized introduction and Q&A sessions, interview tables and rooms.  Participating institutions will also be invited to become CHPAMS institutional members. For questions, email Dr. Xi CHEN at Yale University (xi.chen@yale.edu).

Meeting Facilities

Yale School of Public Health (May 11) & Yale Macmillan Center (May 12)

Team building activities:

May 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of China Health Policy and Management Society. We will have team building events, and attendants are welcome to participate and arrange their departures from New Haven, CT.

May 12, 2018: Yale campus tour to the historical sites of China’s Grand Cross-cultural Educational Experiment (大清留美幼童运动) and Yale-China Association (雅礼中国协会)

May 13, 2018: hiking in the East Rock Park, New Haven, CT.

Important Dates

Xi Chen, Yale University and GLO.

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Since November 4, 2017, GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann (Co-Director of POP at UNU-MERIT & Maastricht University) is visiting Australia for research and seminar presentations. On November 10, he spoke on a well – attended seminar at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth about the role of migrant status at host country entry for economic performance; he also exchanged views with a number of GLO Fellows in the staff of UWA. On November 16, he will give a seminar on European migration policy at Melbourne University.

GLO President Zimmermann has been granted the prestigious Australian Eminent Research Scholar Award. He is resident in November and December 2017 at The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research of the University of Melbourne, Australia. The Melbourne Institute is Australia’s pre-eminent economic and social policy research institution. Renowned for developing longitudinal research tools and using data to build an evidence base for reform, the institute has been powering effective change for more than 50 years.

During his Australian visit, Zimmermann will give further public lectures and research seminars including at the Inaugural Conference of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) and the Australian Labour Market Research Conference (ALMR) in Canberra at the premises of the Australian National University in December 2017; he will also speak in Wollongong, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane.

View on Perth from the Kings Park, one of the largest inner city parks of the world:

Near Melbourne University: Klaus F. Zimmermann after arrival close to his office:

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Conference program available: The Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business Administration within the Transilvania University of Brasov, in collaboration with the Bucharest-based Institute for Economic Forecasting within the National Institute for Economic Research “Costin C. Kiritescu” of the Romanian Academy organizes the International Conference

„Inclusive and sustainable economic growth. Challenges, measures and solutions” (ISEG 2017).

The conference will be held on 20-21 October 2017 in the Transilvania University Hall, Street Iuliu Maniu no. 47A, Brasov.

Conference Program can be accessed here.

GLO Fellows Monica Raileanu Szeles (Transilvania University of Brasov), Lucian Liviu Albu (Institute for Economic Forecasting), Francesco Pastore (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli) and GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT & Rockefeller Policy Fellow) are members of the Scientific Committee of the conference.

On October 20, 11:00 am, GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann will provide a keynote on “Migration and Well-Being”. There will be further a GLO session:

GLO Session: Issues in Global Labor: Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT Maastricht and GLO). On October 20, 14:00 pm.

“Overeducation wage penalty among Ph.D. holders: Does the field of study make the difference? An unconditional quantile regression analysis on Italian data”: Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta (University of Naples L’Orientale), Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera (University of Salerno) and Francesco Pastore (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and GLO)

“Remittances and Income Inequality in Nigeria: A Quantile Regression Analysis”: James T. Bang (St. Ambrose University and GLO), Aniruddha Mitra (Bard College and GLO) and Phanindra V. Wunnava (Middlebury College and GLO)

“Protection and Abuse of Property Rights: Political Culture Heritage in the Eastern European Post-Communist Society”: Camelia Florela Voinea (University of Bucharest and GLO)

 

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Zimmermann is a 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Policy Fellow. He is currently visiting their Bellagio Center to execute research, engage in discussions and provide seminars and lectures.

On 4 October 2017, Zimmermann gave a paper at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center on “Challenges of Migration Policy Advice“.

On 5 October 2017, he provided a public lecture on “The European Migration Challenge after the German Elections” at the Università Cazzolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano.

The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Program offers distinguished academics, artists, thought leaders, policymakers, and practitioners a serene setting conducive to focused, goal-oriented work, and the unparalleled opportunity to establish new connections with fellow residents from a wide array of backgrounds, disciplines, and geographies. The hospitality and impact of The Bellagio Center in Italy has been legendary.

Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and Bonn University, Founding Director of IZA/Bonn, has been granted Rockefeller Foundation Policy Fellow to visit the Bellagio Center in September/October 2017 to execute his research and discuss it with his fellow residents. Zimmermann, who is also the President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), works on migration and global labor economics.

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Zimmermann at the Università Cazzolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, with GLO Fellow Marco Vivarelli, Professor and Director of the Institute of Economic Policy of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano. On 5 October 2017, after he provided a public lecture on “The European Migration Challenge after the German Elections“.

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Zimmermann  with view from the Bellagio Center of the Rockfeller Foundation. There, he gave a presentation on October 4, 2017 on “Challenges of Migration Policy Advice“. See for further pictures.

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The Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business Administration within Transilvania University of Brasov, in collaboration with the Institute for Economic Forecasting within the National Institute for Economic Research “Costin C. Kiritescu” of the Romanian Academy organizes the International Conference

„Inclusive and sustainable economic growth. Challenges, measures and solutions” (ISEG 2017).

GLO Fellows Monica Raileanu Szeles and Lucian Liviu Albu of the Institute for Economic Forecasting are involved in organizing the conference. The conference will be hosted by Transilvania University of Brasov and will be held 20-21 October 2017 in the Transilvania University Hall, Street Iuliu Maniu no. 47A, Brasov.

GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann will provide a keynote on “Migration and Well-Being”. There will be further a GLO session:

GLO Session: Issues in Global Labor: Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT Maastricht and GLO)

“Overeducation wage penalty among Ph.D. holders: Does the field of study make the difference? An unconditional quantile regression analysis on Italian data”: Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta (University of Naples L’Orientale), Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera (University of Salerno) and Francesco Pastore (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and GLO)

“Remittances and Income Inequality in Nigeria: A Quantile Regression Analysis”: James T. Bang (St. Ambrose University and GLO), Aniruddha Mitra (Bard College and GLO) and Phanindra V. Wunnava (Middlebury College and GLO)

“Protection and Abuse of Property Rights: Political Culture Heritage in the Eastern European Post-Communist Society”: Camelia Florela Voinea (University of Bucharest and GLO)

From left to right …..

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This advertises t​he​  Call for Papers ​of the 2018 meetings of the Society of Economics of the HOusehold (SEHO) to be  held at the Paris School of Economics on 23-24 May 2018.

In 2017, the Global Labor Organization (GLO) had supported the creation of SEHO by GLO Fellow Shoshana Grossbard. GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann has been one of the keynote speakers at the first SEHO congress. In the Paris organizing and scientific committees a number of GLO Fellows are involved, including Francois Bourguignon, Elena Stancanelli, Arie Kapteyn, Daniele Paserman, and Arthur Van Soest.
                   

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Society of Economics of the HOusehold (SEHO) was founded in 2017 by Shoshana Grossbard to promote the economic analysis of all outcomes of decision-making by household members, including child outcomes, consumption, savings, labor supply, and healthy and risky behaviors. The 2018 meetings of Society of the Economics of the HOusehold (SEHO) will be held on May 23 and 24 at the Paris School of Economics. The organizing committee includes Francois Bourguignon, Andrew Clark, Hippolyte d’Albis, Claudia Senik, and Elena Stancanelli.

The scientific committee includes Viola Angelini (Groningen University), Daniela del Boca (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin), Orla Doyle (University College Dublin), Arie Kapteyn (University of Southern California), Raphael Lalive (University of Lausanne), Daniele Paserman (Boston University), Valerie Ramey (University of California San Diego), Catherine Sofer (University Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne), and Arthur Van Soest (Tilburg University).

The keynote speakers are Lee Badgett (University of Massachussets, Amherst), Pierre-Andre Chiappori (Columbia University), Raquel Fernandez (New York University) and Shoshana Grossbard (San Diego State University).

Full papers submitted for presentation will be due by January 8^th 2018. Each author can submit at most one paper. To submit a paper to the conference, send a mail to:

sehoconf2018@gmail.com

Please indicate your position and affiliation in the email’s subject. Emails that do not show the sender’s position and affiliation in the email’s heading will not be open.

Please attach your paper to the email and also report in the email:

The title of the paper;

A short summary (max 100 words);

Your affiliation, postal address, telephone and email;

At least 4 keywords, of which one chosen from the list below.

Keywords: marriage and divorce; children outcomes; labor supply; household production; savings and consumption; ageing; happiness and well-being; health economics; cultural economics; migration; domestic violence and crime.

 Incomplete emails not complying with these instructions will not be considered!

Authors will be notified whether the paper is accepted for presentation by January 30^th 2018.

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The very successful last World Congress of the International Economic Association (IEA) took place June 19-23, 2017 in Mexico city with a large number of GLO Fellows attending. Among them were IEA President Kaushik Basu, Jackie Wahba, Corrado Giulietti, Martin Kahanec and GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann.

In the meanwhile, a terrible earthquake has hit Mexico again and has also affected Mexico city. The research community is deeply concerned about this. On this occasion, IEA President and GLO Fellow  Kaushik Basu has written the following letter (together with IEA Past-President Tim Besley), which has the full GLO backing:

“Dear World Congress Participant,

I am sure like us you have been watching in horror at the events unfolding in Mexico as a result of the tragic earthquake.  It is all the more salient to those of us who only recently spent such a wonderful time in Mexico City at the IEA World Congress.  We thought, therefore, that you might wish to show solidarity with the victims by contributing to the relief effort.  Should you choose to do so, we include a list of web links below.

1. Los Topos Mexico: reputed and well-known NGO which specializes in rescuing people from the rubble.
You can donate to their PayPal account through their website:
www.topos.mx
Brigada de Rescate Topos Tlaltelolco a.C.

2. Cruz Roja: Mexico´s Red Cross.
You can donate to their PayPal account through their website:
www.cruzrojamexicana.org.mx
Cruz Roja Mexicana

 3. Amazon Wishlist: Look for the “Cruz Roja Mexico” wish list on Amazon.com or enter the following address into your web browser: https://www.amazon.com.mx/b?ie=UTF8&node=17290014011

Cruz Roja Mexicana en Amazon www.amazon.com.mx Dona a la Cruz Roja Mexicana

Yours sincerely,

Kaushik Basu (IEA President)

Tim Besley (IEA, Past President)”

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The Central European University (CEU) in Budapest has been under threat recently. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) and Klaus F. Zimmermann as the President of the GLO have supported the CEU with declarations and events. At the occasion of the Opening Ceremony 2017,  Michael Ignatieff, President and Rector of the CEU, has now announced:

“Dear Friends and Supporters,

We begin our 27th academic year at Central European University this week. At our 2017 Opening Ceremony, we welcomed 769 incoming students from 93 countries and recognized the extraordinary teaching and research taking place at CEU and elsewhere in Europe. Our community continues to inspire as we carry forward our mission to search for truth and add to the world’s precious stock of knowledge.

Your support enables this exciting work, and we thank you for your dedication to CEU even as we await the outcome of negotiations between the Hungarian government and the State of New York. I share my opening address below …. and welcome you to watch the video and read the full story here.”

“To the ambassadors and representatives of their countries
To the rectors and representatives of Hungarian universities.
To our hard-working faculty
To our dedicated staff
To our returning students
Welcome!

To the incoming CEU class of Masters and Doctoral students—all 769 of you from 93 countries—we hope CEU will be a transformative experience and we welcome you warmly to this community.

For we are a community, brought together as never before by our defense of academic freedom. Let me thank the entire CEU community for standing together, during what I like to call, with British understatement, ‘our little local difficulty.’

As many of you know, New York State, where we are accredited, and the Government of Hungary are negotiating an agreement that would enable us to stay in Budapest. Negotiations continue, but we remain hopeful that an agreement can be reached and ratified by the Hungarian Parliament.

This experience—still ongoing, still unresolved, but hopefully soon behind us—has changed us all. We have rediscovered why free institutions matter and why our open society mission is so important.

We are the only university with such a mission. What does it mean? Let’s be clear, first of all, what it doesn’t mean. It’s worth saying, once again, we’re not a political organization, we’re not an opposition movement, not an NGO. Though we encourage our students, staff, faculty, and alumni to be active citizens and to express their political convictions freely.

We ARE a university: a free, self-governing institution, independent of government, independent of those who finance us, a community of scholars and students whose task is to search for truth and to add to the world’s precious stock of knowledge.

And what is knowledge? The unbroken strand of understanding that human beings have woven together through experimentation, research and experience and that they have passed on from generation to generation.

Our mission as a university is to weave our tiny thread of knowledge into this strand of understanding and to pass it on unbroken to our children.

There is no single vision for an open society—that would violate the principle of openness itself—but all visions of an open society share a critical component: the belief in an epistemology of freedom: that the ideas we need most arise from critical debate and the courage to discard them when they fail the test of reality.

A university lives by this epistemology, but its goals are ethical. We are the institutions whose very essence is to create free people: responsible, prudent, moral human beings who do their best to care for their families, care for their country, care for each other.

An open society is a society of such men and women. Such people are skeptical but passionate citizens. They know the distinction between knowledge and opinion, between a fact and a rumor, between a tweet or a post and a research finding, between passion and sound judgment. Grasping the core of knowledge is hard. It is the work of a university every day, in every class: to teach men and women to make these distinctions, to do so fiercely, to subject all ideological claims—liberal and conservative alike—to the critical scrutiny that only knowledge of real life allows.

This is our mission. We hope you will feel it at work in our classrooms, in our lectures and seminars. We are an institution under constant scrutiny and external pressure. But that must not prevent us from being critical of ourselves. We re-examine our mission every day. We question whether we are measuring up. You will see that we are running a presidential lecture series entitled, Rethinking Open Society. Join us for these talks, form your own opinion about what open society means. The first one is on Monday, and guess who is starting it off: yours truly. So come, be critical. Join the debate.

In a moment you will hear a poem read, by one of the greatest spirits of our region and of our world, Czeslaw Milosz, the Polish Nobel Laureate in Literature. In it you will hear him say, “human reason guides our hand so we write Truth and Justice with capital letters, lie and oppression with small.” You will also hear a Kodaly song sung by a Hungarian artist. Their inclusion in this program is our way of saying: poetry, art, literature, music teach us our mission every day.

We will have a good year, together. I know it. We will argue, we will debate. The library will be full. Your heads will feel full with the pressure of new ideas. You will be changed.

So let us begin the year, proud of who we are: a community of men and women who love knowledge, learning, literature, art and who believe that when we work together, we can help each other on the arduous journey that is never over, the journey to become free men and women.”

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International Conference “People Matter: Quality of Life and Population Wellbeing in Post-Transition Economies” organized by the Kyiv School of Economics and VoxUkraine on September 14-15, 2017 in Kyiv in Ukraine. It is supported by the Global Labor Organization (GLO). Available: full program of the conference.

This is the first conference in the region which will bring together researchers from around the world who have been studying population well-being and its various aspects in post-socialist countries during the transition period and beyond. It will provide an opportunity for extended dialogue among academic and policy researchers, government officials and policy makers to promote use of evidence and analytics in the decision making at all levels.

The organizing committee of the conference includes GLO Fellow Olena Nizalova (University of Kent), Yuri Gorodnichenko (University of California, Berkley), Tymofiy Mylovanov (Kyiv School of Economics and University of Pittsburgh), Mariya Aleksynska (ILO), and Olga Kupets (Kyiv School of Economics).

Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and President of GLO) will provide a keynote lecture on “Migration and Well-being” on September 14. He will also chair a policy panel on “Migration caused by conflicts: Wellbeing of refugees and internally displaced people”.

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO September 30, 2017!

The 59th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) will be held during 16-18 December 2017 in the premises of Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation (GIFT), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The conference is organized for ISLE by  GIFT in collaboration with the Department of Economics, Kerala University, and the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram.

The Global Labor Organization (GLO) supports the annual conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) and the associated Indian Journal of Labour Economics. Both are partner institutions of the GLO.

Submission of Papers:  Papers along with a summary of about 500 to 750 words should be submitted online at www.isleijle.org/59isleconference or emailed to conference.isle@gmail.com. Selected papers are considered for publication in the Indian Journal of Labour Economics after peer reviewing. Submission deadline is 30 September 2017.

The GLO will organize a special GLO session at this conference. Those GLO members interested to contribute to such a session are invited to contact GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann (klaus.f.zimmermann@gmail.com).

INDIAN SOCIETY OF LABOUR ECONOMICS (ISLE)   

NOTE: Submission deadline extended to 30 September 2017.

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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 had delivered an insightful and optimistic 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.

Before, Rick van der Ploeg (Oxford University), had given his impressive and alarming lecture on

“Obstacles to successful climate policy“.

Also,  Rick van der Ploeg is a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE) and its section “Economics, Business and Management Sciences” and a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO).

Andreu Mas-Colell delivering the Erasmus Medal speech.

Rick van der Ploeg presenting his lecture on climate policy

Klaus F. Zimmermann in the most impressive Ceremonial Hall of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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EVENT ACTORS:

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.

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.

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.

THE DEBATE: van der Ploeg; Mas-Colell; Zimmermann; Hart & Kahanec

HOST AND ACTING HEAD: Kahanec

PANEL CHAIR: Zimmermann (left: van der Ploeg)

Kahanec (left) & Zimmermann in front of CEU

WE ALL STAND WITH CEU

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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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