NIPE SUMMER SCHOOL

The NIPE (Economic Policies Research Unit) is pleased to announce its 7th Summer School on "Regression Analysis with Discrete and Censored Dependent Variables".

The course will be taught by Professor Colin Cameron (University of California – Davis), at the University of Minho, School of Economics and Management, Braga, Portugal, from June 16th to June 18th, 2010.

The purpose of the course is to provide practitioners and academics with a comprehensive coverage of statistical methods and their application in the econometric analysis of cross-section data using Stata.

Applications should arrive no later than April 15, 2010.

For more information about the Summer School 2010, please follow the link:

http://www3.eeg.uminho.pt/economia/nipe/summerschool2010.

The organizing committee:

Cristina Amado: camado@eeg.uminho.pt

Carla Sá: cangelica@eeg.uminho.pt

Dina Guimarães: nipe@eeg.uminho.pt

Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas Escola de Economia e Gestão Universidade do Minho

Tel: (EEG) 00351 253 604 517 Fax: (EEG) 00351 253 601 380

International Center for Research on Women
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Program Associate, Economic Development

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is an organization comprised of international development professionals – researchers, policy specialists and program managers committed to the creation and sharing of the needed tools, approaches and techniques that will serve as catalysts for change for women worldwide. ICRW currently seeks a Program Associate, Economic Development.

The Program Associate (“PA”) will provide technical and administrative support to research activities within the Economic Development portfolio. Current projects include impact evaluations of interventions on women’s economic empowerment, enterprise education, financial products, and property rights. The PA will support project directors working on economic and related research in numerous areas, including preparation of data collection tools for quantitative and qualitative data analysis, checking, coding and cleaning data sets, analysis of large data sets, preparation of tables and figures for communication of research results, liaison with research counterparts overseas and conducting and organizing literature reviews and other secondary data searches. The PA will have the opportunity to contribute to the preparation of professional papers, research reports, presentations, articles and proposals and assist in the coordination of project activities with local and international partners. In addition, the PA will be responsible for assisting in general project management and administration, including working with project director to monitor budgets, develop project work plans, and maintain files and information. Finally, the PA will undertake other tasks as assigned by the portfolio manager and project directors, based on team and institutional priorities.

Our ideal candidate will have a minimum of a Masters degree in Economics or other Social Science along with at least one year related experience in collection and analysis of survey data with a background in international development and gender issues. Experience in women’s property rights, microfinance and other financial products, economic empowerment and /or monitoring and evaluation a plus. Candidate should also be familiar with large data sets and statistical techniques. Proficiency in statistical software, preferably STATA, the MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and Internet applications including online database applications (e.g., EconLit & JStor) is a must. Candidate must possess strong skills in quantitative data management and analysis, report writing and editing, and visual presentation of research findings. Candidate should demonstrate maturity, resourcefulness, and attention to detail, with the ability to work independently, organize, prioritize tasks and meet deadlines. Fluency or good reading comprehension in French required.

ICRW offers a collegial and stimulating work environment, challenging, innovative and meaningful development projects and the opportunity to work with professionals who are well-regarded in their fields of expertise.

If you feel your credentials are a match for our requirements, please submit a resume, 1-2 brief writing samples, and a cover letter indicating salary requirements and where you learned about this opportunity as e-mail attachments to jobs@icrw.org. Candidates who do not submit all the requested application materials will not be considered. Please indicate “PA-Econ” in the subject line of the email. Due to the volume of resumes we receive, we are not able to respond to individual inquiries regarding the status of candidacy. Therefore, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. ICRW is an equal opportunity employer, M/F/D/V.

Labour Market Economist Position

Labour Market Economist Member
of the Prison Service Pay Review Body

The role of the Review Body is to understand the complex and sensitive issue of reward within a key public service and to develop recommendations for pay. As a Member, you will have the opportunity to make a significant contribution to a service that is pivotal to the social fabric of our society. Extensive research and evidence will support you in developing workable and considered pay recommendations. Your work will be concentrated between September and February each year when, together with your colleagues, you will study and discuss evidence from key stakeholders. Prison visits will also form part of your role.

The post represents an influential, worthwhile and intellectually stimulating challenge. To be considered, you will have a professional background in economics with expertise in labour market issues, a high level of analytical ability, the diplomacy to handle sensitive issues effectively, the confidence to challenge opinions where necessary, the mental agility to think both conceptually and practically and a commitment to public service values.

This should be supported by a record of achievement and a broad understanding of public sector pay, and the context in which it is set. An understanding of large organisations and of unionised environments is also desirable.
The Appointment will be made by the Secretary of State for Justice.

We welcome applications from women and all sections of the multi-racial community as they are under represented on the Review Body.

Time commitment for this post will be around 25-30 days a year for which remuneration of £300 per day is payable. Allowances for travel and subsistence are also payable whilst on PSPRB business. Meetings are held in London although members will also be expected to undertake 3-4 prison visits a year.

The appointment will be for a period of 3 years. Further information on the PSPRB is available at www.ome.uk.com.

Closing date for all applications is 12 noon on 11 January 2010. The Prison Service Pay Review Body (PSPRB) is an independent body that advises the government on the pay of governing governors and operational managers, prison officers and support grades in the Prison Service of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

For more information, and to apply online please visit the website www.appointments.org.uk quoting reference MOJ9133C. Alternatively you can call 0870 240 3802 for a hard copy of the information pack or request an alternative format such as Braille, large print and audio.

Click here for a printable pdf file announcing this vacancy.

CALL for PAPERS

“Measurement and Evaluation of Academic Research Performance:
Policy Implications”

21^st of June 2010

School of Economics and Management

University of Minho , Braga, Portugal

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Workshop on “Measurement and Evaluation of Academic Research Performance: Policy Implications” at NIPE - Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal. The workshop will take place on June 21^st, 2010, at Universidade do Minho.

This workshop aims at promoting discussion regarding the general topic of measurement and evaluation of academic research performance. In particular, we welcome papers that discuss the construction of rankings of economics journals and alternative ways to measure research in economics, papers that analyse trends, case studies and international comparisons in economic research and papers that discuss policies that can be used to improve the quality of researchers' scientific production. The organization of this event follows from an on-going project started more than 10 years ago where we make publicly available the information regarding the ranking of Portuguese researchers and institutions in the field of economics. You can access our project here:

http://www3.eeg.uminho.pt/economia/nipe/cempre+nipe-rank/

To discuss these issues we encourage you to participate in the conference by submitting a paper that contributes to this debate.

The Scientific committee is composed by:

Paulo Guimarães, University of South Carolina

Pantelis Kalaitzidakis, University of Crete

Miguel Portela, Universidade do Minho

Carla Sá, Universidade do Minho

Christian Zimmermann, University of Connecticut

Paper submissions should be sent to nipe@eeg.uminho.pt, until April 11^th 2010. 

Submitters will be notified about the status of their submissions by April 26^th, 2010.

For any further information, please contact: Miguel Portela.

For matters regarding registration, accommodation, meals, and technical conference support, please contact: Dina Guimarães.

CALL FOR PAPERS
2010 ESPE Conference

The Twenty Fourth Annual Conference of the ESPE will take place on June 9-12,
2010, at Congress Center South Essen, Germany.

Essen will be Cultural Capital of Europe 2010. The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labour economics, public economics, demography, and health economics. Examples of research topics are: human capital investment, gender issues, intrahousehold distribution, aging and social security, taxation, population and economic growth, domestic and international migration, income distribution and redistribution within and between generations, technological change and the environment.

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (University of Linz, Austria) will serve as the program chair and Christoph M. Schmidt and Thomas K. Bauer as the local organizers. The keynote speakers at ESPE2010 will be Alan Manning (London School of Economics) and Maristella Botticini (Torino and Boston University). The presidential address will be given by Tim Hatton (Australian National University and University of Essex).

The conference will provide the opportunity to present papers. Papers and abstracts
should be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form.

ESPE2010 will also have poster sessions. Submissions for presentation should include an abstract and, when possible, the paper itself in pdf format (one single file, including tables and figures). Preference will be given to submissions that include a completed paper.

Submissions for posters should include an abstract and if possible a paper. Please indicate on the electronic submission form whether you wish to present a paper or a poster.

The submission deadline is February 1, 2010. Acceptance decisions will be
communicated until March 27, 2010. We particularly encourage graduate students to apply. Waivers of the conference registration fee will be provided for 15 graduate students. It is necessary that students apply for the waiver in the on-line submission and that his/her supervisor confirms the student status. Information on conference location, paper submission, registration, and hotel reservations will be available at the conference web page, http://www.especonferences.org.

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

ON APPLIED ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION

CATANZARO, ITALY

JUNE 14-15, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for Papers

Economics of Healthy Human Resources

Rome

May 27-29 2010

Download complete information here

Call for Papers

 2010 Economic Demography Workshop

Population Association of America Annual Meeting

Hyatt Regency, Dallas, TX

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 

The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held Thursday April 15 through Saturday April 17 in Dallas, TX.  As has been true for more than 20 years, there will also be an Economic Demography Workshop (EDW) from 1-5 pm on the afternoon before the main PAA meeting (Wednesday, April 14, 2010).  The Workshop provides an opportunity for the detailed presentation of 4-9 papers with more economic content than those generally given in the main meetings. 

For more information, including past programs, see the EDW website here: http://www.edworkshop.umd.edu/  

You may submit a paper or detailed abstract for consideration by the Program Committee by Friday, January 1, 2010, here: http://editorialexpress.com/conference/edworkshop2010/  

Interested participants may submit abstracts that have also been submitted for presentation at the main PAA meeting. Please use the "Comments" field to indicate whether the abstract has also been submitted for presentation at the main meeting. Preference will be given to papers that will not also be presented at the main PAA meeting.  The program will be finalized in late January. 

General information about the PAA Annual Meeting is available from the Population Association of America, 8630 Fenton Street, Suite 722, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3812. Tel: 1-301-565-6710, Fax: 1-301-565-7850.  Web: http://www.popassoc.org/ 

Additional information about the Economic Demography Workshop can be obtained on the EDW website (http://www.edworkshop.umd.edu) or from any member of this year's organizing committee: Marianne Bitler (mbitler@uci.edu), Steven Haider (haider@msu.edu), or Terra McKinnish (terra.mckinnish@colorado.edu). Please forward this announcement to other interested economic demographers. Sign up for email announcements of the Economic Demography Workshop at the EDW website.

New Journal Gives Unique Insight in European Employment Law

September 30th 2009, The Hague (The Netherlands)– Sdu Publishers has launched the premier issue of a new journal, ‘European Employment Law Cases’ (EELC). The release follows a short test period during which a fast growing number of subscriptions was established, clearly showing a demand for the title. Published both offline and online (www.eelc-online.com), the journal is easily accessible to all everywhere.

The basis of the publication consists of summaries (in English) of judgments from European countries and the European Court of Justice. The website includes links to the full texts of the original judgments. Additionally, the LinkedIn group entitled ‘European Employment Lawyers’ facilitates international networking opportunities and sharing insights from professionals throughout Europe and beyond. To ensure only employment law professionals join, a restricted access policy is maintained.

“Lawyers are often unaware of how courts in other jurisdictions interpret and apply legal doctrines in the area of employment law. This is a missed opportunity because interpretations in one jurisdiction may be useful to other jurisdictions as well. After all, the same European Directives must be applied. EELC is also useful to judges because they can follow the same line of thought.” Gerrard Boot, Judge in Amsterdam and subscriber of EELC, explains.

EELC has a Board of National Correspondents currently consisting of employment law specialists in 20 EU member states. They are the magazine's eyes and ears for their respective jurisdictions and will notify the editors of any developments in their country which they feel should be shared with their foreign colleagues. The Academic editors will see to the quality of the submissions and will add an overall perspective. This Academic Board consists of employment law professors and other university representatives from 12 jurisdictions.

Contact For Immediate Release
Fleur Stigter
Sdu Publishers
Tel: + 31 (0) 70. 37.89.713
F.Stigter@sdu.nl

Notes for Editors

About EELC

First and only Journal with summaries of European Employment Law Cases and brief references to recent European Court of Justice cases and conclusions. Related to ‘European Employment Lawyers’ network group in LinkedIn. To get acquainted the content of the test version will remain freely accessible at www.eelc-online.com. Subscription rate (1 year, 6 issues): € 350,-

About Sdu Uitgevers/Publishers

As a multi-media publisher of specialist information, Sdu Uitgevers provides its clients with essential trade-specific information on a daily basis. We do this at any required moment and in any required form, such as newspapers, magazines, books or seminars. Our clients increasingly opt for online information sources, sometimes in combination with the well-known printed publications. Sdu Uitgevers is based in The Hague, The Netherlands (‘capital of international law’).

The legal world entirely depends on accurate and up-to-date information. Sdu Uitgevers has multi-media publications especially for legal professionals, focusing on almost all branches of law.

With more than 3,000 different publications a year, our company continuously improves itself and the services to its clients. Innovation takes first place for us. More information at http://www.sdu.nl/en/overons

JOB OPENING

The Department of Economics at Eastern Illinois University invites applications for an assistant professor position in Labor Economics beginning August 2010. For further information, please feel free to contact me lsghent@eiu.edu or econsearch@eiu.edu.

Linda S. Ghent
Professor and Chair
Department of Economics
Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, IL 61920
(217) 581-5429 (office)
(217) 581-5997 (fax)
http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~lsghent

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Call for Papers – Fifth IZA/World Bank Conference on

‘Employment and Development’

May 3-4, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline: November 15, 2009.

and

Call for Papers – Special issue of LABOUR ECONOMICS on

‘Labour economics and labour markets in developing countries’

Submission deadline: November 15, 2009

Dear colleagues,

While most research in labor economics focuses on the US and Western Europe, the majority of the world’s population and particularly of the poor and the youth live in countries where labor markets often work quite differently. To stimulate and promote research on employment and labor economics in developing countries, the World Bank and IZA initiated in 2006 a work program on “Employment and Development”. Since 2006, the annual conference on Employment and Development provides a platform for researchers and policy experts to discuss new research findings and identify areas where further work is needed. IZA and the World Bank will organize the 5^th annual conference in Cape Town, South Africa on May 3-4, 2010.

The current global economic downturn has revealed again the key importance of well functioning labor markets for helping workers and their families to weather through the storm of job losses and declines in incomes. Many workers have lost their job around the world and many others have seen their incomes dropping substantially. While in industrialized countries income support schemes and effective re-employment policies help job losers and their families, in most developing countries such policies and institutions are under-developed or non-existent, though, leaving workers and their families fully exposed to the hardship of unemployment or working poverty. Further efforts at improving the coverage and support of labor market and social policies are needed in many developing countries. In addition, improvements in the functioning of the labor market can also go a long way in ensuring a quicker and better pathway out of the downturns and into sustainable growth by contributing to an environment where new firms are created and private agents find the proper incentives to invest and innovate.

Parallel sessions in all areas of labor economics will be organized, and we invite you to submit your contribution by November 15, 2009. We invite submissions of papers on labor markets, job creation and labor market policies in developing countries. Contributions on Africa and/or by Africans are particularly welcome. Decisions will be made in January 2010. We will consider detailed abstracts, but will favor full papers, particularly empirical ones.

All presenters at the parallel sessions must arrange and fund their trip to South Africa but are offered three nights accommodation in Cape Town as well as meals during the conference, including the participation at the conference dinner. There are no conference fees. For enquiries, please contact Aslan Akay or Markus Frölich at development@iza.org

Previous IZA / World Bank conferences have been held in Berlin, Bonn and Morocco and have attracted prestigious researchers and policymakers from a wide variety of developed and developing countries, including keynote speeches of Francois Bourguignon, Gary Fields, Richard Freeman, Santiago Levy, Jan Svejnar and Tarik Yousef. The theme of next year’s conference is ‘Recovering with good jobs’.

The programs from these past events may be found online at:

www.iza.org/conference_files/worldb2006

www.iza.org/conference_files/worldb2007

www.iza.org/conference_files/worldb2008

www.iza.org/conference_files/worldb2009

Please submit online before the 15 of November 2009 at: www.iza.org/development

Call for Papers – Special issue of LABOUR ECONOMICS on

‘Labour economics and labour markets in developing countries’

Submission deadline: November 15, 2009

Labour Economics, the Journal of the European Association of Labour Economists, wants to signal its interest in publishing more high-quality research on labor economics and labor markets in developing countries. While most labor economic research focuses on the US and Western Europe, the majority of the world’s population, and particularly of the poor, live in countries where labor markets often work quite differently. The journal wishes to promote and stimulate research on employment and, more generally, on labor economics in developing countries. To this end, a special issue on developing countries’ labour markets will be published by Labour Economics by the end of 2010. Lead articles will be provided by Gary Fields (Cornell) and Francis Teal (Oxford).

Papers can be submitted to this special issue until November 15, 2009. (Please note that submission to this special issue is independent of the submission to the IZA/World Bank conference.)

Go to http://ees.elsevier.com/labeco/default.asp and click on “submit paper”, enter your userid and password (or register to get these), click on “author login”, and then choose “Special issue: labour markets in LDC” from the drop-down list.

After November 15, any papers on developing countries labour markets can be submitted through the regular online submission using the instructions above and choosing “Full length article” in the drop-down list.

13^th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics

May 15- May 21, 2010

at Buch, Ammersee Lake, Germany

call for papers

The IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics was created in 1998, as an annual event taking place at the conference center of Deutsche Post World Net at the Ammersee Lake (near Munich) in Bavaria, Germany. The Summer School is supported by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the European Economic Association (EEA), the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), and the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE).

The objective of the Summer School is to bring together a large number of PhD students and senior lecturers to study new areas in labor economics. Students have the opportunity to present their work and discuss ideas with established researchers in a relaxed and open atmosphere.

The School is open to advanced graduate students from European universities, or Europeans studying abroad, engaged in the preparation of a doctoral dissertation or approaching that stage. Around 35 students will be selected, based on their preparation to participate in advanced study on the subject.

Lecturers

Pierre Cahuc (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris) “Culture, Institutions, and Labor Market Performance ”

Petra E. Todd (University of Pennsylvania) “Methods for Policy Evaluation”

Funding

Local expenses and traveling are covered.

Application

Applications to participate should be submitted by January 29, 2010, using the online submission form at http://www.iza.org/link/SUMS. Please submit your CV and an abstract for a potential presentation of your research work; a letter of support from your PhD supervisor must be sent before the deadline by regular mail to

Konstantinos Tatsiramos (IZA, Schaumburg-Lippe-Str. 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany)

SOLE 2010

15th ANNUAL MEETINGS

SOLE/EALE 2010

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Society of Labor Economists will hold its Fifteenth Annual Meetings June 17-19, 2010 at University College London

SOLE members are invited to submit proposals for consideration to sole@soclabor.org. Follow the submission instructions in the return email exactly.

Submissions open on September 15, 2009 and close January 31, 2010.

Robert Pollak, President
Richard Blundell, President-Elect
David Card, First Vice President
Shelly Lundberg, Second Vice President

For further details consult the SOLE website.