Posted 8/28/09
CALL FOR PAPERS
2009 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
CONTEMPORARY LABOR ECONOMICS
December 12 (Saturday)-December 13 (Sunday), 2009
Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE)
Xiamen University
Xiamen, China
We are happy to announce the 4th International Symposium on
Contemporary Labor Economics at the Wang Yanan Institute
for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University, China.
We invite submissions on issues related to discrimination,
income and education mobility, insurance, and across
generations, job transitions, migration, and poverty. In
light of the ongoing global financial crisis, studies on
the impacts on labor market issues are particularly
welcome.
OVERVIEW:
This year, the conference will be jointly hosted by WISE
and the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW). Since
the launch of the first symposium in 2006, leading
researchers, such as Patricia Anderson, Kausshik Basu,
Andrew Chesher, Barry Chiswick, Gary Fields, Richard
Freeman, Robert Gregory, Cheng Hsiao, George Jakubson,
Jerry Hausman, Bertil Holmlund, Athar Hussain, Larry Kahn,
John Kennan, Peter Kuhn, Costas Meghir, Xing Meng, Craig
Riddell, Steve Stern, Klaus Zimmerman, have been our
invited speakers.
It has become a leading conference on labor economics in
China that brings together overseas and Chinese researchers
to promote research of labor economics and to bring current
Chinese labor market issues to the attention of overseas
researchers. For details about our previous conferences in
this series, please check:
http://www.wise.xmu.edu.cn/Labor2009
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Researchers interested in participating should submit a
paper or extended abstract through our online application
form at:
http://www.wise.xmu.edu.cn/Labor2009
by September 30, 2009. Decisions of acceptance or rejection
will be announced by October 15, 2009.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Any inquiry should be directed to:
CONTACT: Professor Hau CHY
Email: MAILTO:hauchyi@gmail.com
For logistic affairs, please contact:
CONTACT: Ms Iris ZHANG
Email: MAILTO:zhanghong@xmu.edu.cn
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY:
Xiamen University was founded in 1921 by Mr. Tan Kah-Kee, a
well-known oversea Chinese patriot. The university is
located on the resort-like island of Xiamen, which has a
reputation of "Garden over the Sea" and has direct flights
to many major cities in Asia. The Wang Yanan Institute for
Studies in Economics (WISE) is a recent effort of the
Ministry of Education of China and Xiamen University to
build a first class research institute and facilitate
domestic and international research and academic exchanges.
Labor economics and related fields in public, educational,
and health economics are among the priority of the
development strategy of WISE. For more information on WISE,
please see:
http://www.wise.xmu.edu.cn