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 November 5, 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 (see draft program).
- Job Market Sessions for young scholars. See separate CALL FOR PAPERS.
- 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.