6th GREThA International Conference on Economic Development
Labor, Labor Market, and Development
Bordeaux, June 16-17, 2016
The University of Bordeaux, GREThA and CNRS will hold their 6th International Conference on Development Economics onJune 16-17, 2016. The conference will bring together academics working on issues related to labor and labor markets in developing countries.
We invite contributions related (though not limited) to the following topics:
Human capital and labor markets
Formal and informal labor markets
Child labor and forced labor
Networking and entrepreneurship
Public sector employment
Agricultural and rural labor
Unemployment, underemployment and labor misallocation
Wage inequality and redistribution
Social stratification and discrimination on labor markets
Norms and regulations of labor markets
Contract, incentives and labor productivity
Within- and cross-country labor migrations
Measurement issues in labor-related information
Keynote speakers: Frederico Finan (University of California at Berkeley), Pieter Serneels (University of East Anglia).
Scientific Committee: Olivier Bargain (Aix-Marseille School of Economics, IZA), Jean-Philippe Berrou (Sciences po Bordeaux, LAM), François Combarnous (University of Bordeaux, GREThA), Yacouba Diallo (BIT), Michael Grimm (University of Passau), Catherine Guirkinger (University of Namur/CRED), Melissa Hidrobo (International Food Policy Research Institute), Christophe Nordman (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement/DIAL), Stéphane Pallage (UQAM), Simon Quinn (University of Oxford/CSAE).
Key dates:
Full paper should be submitted by February 29th, 2016
Decision notification: March 30st, 2016
Registration until May 1st, 2016
Conference website :
http://gretha.u-bordeaux.fr/en/colloques/6th-gretha-international-conference-economic-development
Submission link:
http://gretha.u-bordeaux.fr/en/6th-gretha-conference-international-development/submissions
Contact : devconference2016@u-bordeaux.fr