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

GLO JOPE Bonn 2025 Conference – Call for Papers – Draft: October 2, 2025; 05:20 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 local program parts of the conference virtually.
– Online presenters will be offered paper presentation times in their local time-zones of all relevant continents.

Questions to Office@glabor.org

Call for Papers – Deadline: October 23, 2025

NOTE: To allow in-person participants to prepare travel plans early, acceptance decisions in this channel may be made and communicated before this deadline where possible. Hence, early submissions of in-person participants are encouraged.

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/
No submission fee. Deadline: October 23, 2025.
Open until midnight on US east coast time = midnight CET Berlin + 6 hours.

  • 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 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

Participation

Conference venue:
– Local on December 4-5: Science Center Bonn/Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn (WZB), Ahrstr. 45, 53175 Bonn. Parking: close to WZB & in WZB. Conveniently to reach with public transportation via station “Hochkreuz” (9 stops from the main railway station).
– Online globally December 3-5: Zoom

Participation fees: To be paid upon conference registration as instructed after after acceptance.
Regular: in-person € 500, online € 350
JOPE-EES: in-person € 600, online € 450

Fees for in-person participants include coffee breaks and lunch during the conference as well as the conference dinner on December 3, 2025.
Fees for online-participants include access to all online-sessions globally and virtually to all in-person sessions with the option to ask questions.

To participate with no paper please pay the regular fee (in-person € 500, online € 350) as explained in “Organizational Details” and send a registration email to Office@glabor.org with the subject “GLO-Bonn-2025-No-Paper”.

To be announced

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

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

ORGANIZATIONAL DETAILS

HOTEL SUGGESTIONS (individual booking)
Walking distance to the conference center (about 20 minutes) :
– Maritim Hotel Bonn, Kurt-Georg-Kiesinger Allee 1, 53175 Bonn
– Vienna House Easy by Wyndham Bonn, Bernkasteler Str. 2, 53175 Bonn
– Aparthotel Alma Bonn, Bernkasteler Str. 6, 53175 Bonn
City center Bonn (& many more):
– Dorint Hotel Bonn Berliner Freiheit 2, 53111 Bonn
30 min with tram/subway to the conference center
10 min walking distance to the Bonn Christmas Market spread across Münsterplatz, Bottlerplatz, Friedensplatz, and more.
City center Bonn- Bad Godesberg (& many more):
– Insel Hotel, Theaterplatz 5-7 · 53177 Bonn (Access via: Am Kurpark 3)
20 min with tram/subway to the conference center
Next to the Bonn-Bad Godesberg St. Nicholas Christmas Market

FURTHER BONN ATTRACTIONS
– Museumsmeile Bonn (“Museum Mile” Bonn), a cultural corridor along the U-Bahn line between Bonn’s city center and Bad Godesberg, hosting five major museums, offering unique insights into art, science, and history. U-Bahn stop at Heussallee/Museumsmeile, not far from the conference center. (Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bundeskunsthalle, Deutsches Museum Bonn, Museum Koenig, Haus der Geschichte)

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM NOTES
Highlights include:
– December 4 GLO Research Seminar provided by  Olga Stoddard (Brigham Young University)
– Keynote speech: Viola Angelini (University of Groningen)
– Kuznets Award Ceremony: To be announced.
– Alison Booth (Writer & Australian National University) speaks about 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.