Global GLO-JOPE Conference 2025, December 3-5 Bonn

GLO JOPE Bonn 2025 Conference – Call for Papers – Draft: October 24, 2025; 6:00 am

Annual Global Hybrid Conference with local event in Bonn/Germany of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) with support of the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE).

– Invited & Contributed Paper Sessions.
– JOPE & GLO Board Meetings.
– JOPE Kuznets Prize Ceremony.
– GLO Job Market Sessions.
– GLO VirtYS Session.
– Special JOPE Paper Sessions.
– Keynote speeches.
– December 2025 GLO Virtual Seminar.

The event includes a local regular in-person conference in Bonn and a global online Zoom meeting with overlapping elements.

Conference will take place on December 3-5, 2025. The event is HYBRID:
– In-person presentations will be on December 4-5, online during December 3-5.
– Online attendees can follow all in-person program parts of the conference virtually.
– Online presenters will be offered paper presentation times in their local time-zones of all relevant continents.

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

Questions to Office@glabor.org

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.

Call for Papers – Deadline: October 23, 2025 – extended to November 5, 2025

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 NOW OPEN:  https://editorialexpress.com/conference/GLOBonn2025/
Deadline: Submissions are still possible until November 5, 2025.
(Submissions open the entire day on November 5.)
Open until midnight on US east coast time = midnight CET Berlin + 6 hours.
Note there is a presentation fee for the major conference to be paid after acceptance, see LINK.

  • Submissions can be (i) individual contributions with abstract only or full papers with abstract, or (ii) full sessions with four contributions consisting of four abstracts and possibly papers. Providing full papers increases the chance of acceptance.
  • Submitters have to decide whether they want to be considered for (i) a regular contributed session or (ii) a Journal of Population Economics Express Evaluation Session (JOPE).
  • JOPE submissions require a full paper and abstract. Those rejected may still be considered for regular contributed sessions.
  • If accepted, authors have to register for the conference either for the in-person or online version of the conference.
  • Accepted JOPE conference papers have to be submitted to the JOURNAL through the standard channel at the time when registering to the conference. These submissions will pass the desk rejection phase of JOPE and receive an express evaluation within six weeks after the conference. Topics related to JOPE’s collections are particularly welcome.
  • Upon submission, authors have to indicate their preferences by choosing one of those offered categories: Regular-Inperson; Regular-Online; JOPE-Inperson; JOPE-Online
    IF NOT CHOSEN, YOU WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR REGULAR-ONLINE ONLY.

Further Conference Details

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Including: Matloob Piracha, Klaus F. Zimmermann; JOPE Editors, Olena Nizalova (VirtYS), Sen Xue (IESR Invited Session), Le Wang (GLO Jobmarked Sessions)

ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE
Including: Alessio Brown, Klaus F. Zimmermann; Mehrzad Baktash, Leena Bhattacharya, Sandipa Bhattacharjee, Liwen Guo, Kishan Narayan, Olena Nizalova, Stefan Schneck, Max Tani, Sen Xue , Le Wang

REGISTRATION – instructions, payments: Details-LINK

TRAVEL INSTRUCTIONS & ACCOMMODATION Details-LINK

PROGRAM NOTES
***> Program Outline – Overview/Structure
***> Program – draft, currently password-protected

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS (All below will be in-person sessions.)

– December 4 GLO Research Seminar provided by  Olga Stoddard (Brigham Young University) on “The Visible Costs of Invisible Household Labor“.
– Keynote speech: Viola Angelini (University of Groningen) on “Growing Older in Good Health: Tracing the Roots of Inequalities“.
– Kuznets Award Ceremony: DETAILS, see also the program outline.

– Alison Booth (Writer & Australian National University) speaks about her new book Death at Booroomba

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

– 3 parallel in-person sessions on Dec. 4-5 with online access.
– Meet Journal of Population Economics authors, editors and associate editors.

– Publisher Booth: Visit the exhibit table with the book and journal display 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. To discuss projects: Niko Chtouris, Senior Editor Springer – Books, Economics & Political Science.