Call for Papers: “Firms, Labor Markets, and Development Workshop”, 20-21 June 2025, University of Bari (Italy).

Call for Papers

The workshop, now at its 5th edition, seeks to promote the exchange and dissemination of new research in the field of development economics and its intersections with industrial organization, international trade, labor economics, and migration.
This year’s workshop will be held on 20-21 June 2025 at the University of Bari, Italy, and is planned as an in-person event.

The workshop calls for papers covering, but not limited to:

• Firm and sectoral productivity
• Access to foreign markets
• Firms in hostile environments
• Growth and structural transformation
• Technology adoption, learning, and diffusion
• Labor market frictions
• International migration and forced displacement
  

Keynote speaker:

Mushfiq Mobarak, Jerome Kasoff ’54 Professor of Management and Economics, Yale University

A limited budget is available upon request to cover accommodation expenses for up to two nights.
The deadline to submit is February 28th, 2025. Authors of selected papers will be informed by mid-March. Please submit completed papers and/or extended abstracts, with a preference for the former, at the following link: https://shorturl.at/YQdPo

The Organizing Committee
Francesco AMODIO, McGill University
Michele DI MAIO, Sapienza University of Rome
Mariapia MENDOLA, University of Milan Bicocca and Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano
Vito PERAGINE, University of Bari
Marco SANFILIPPO, University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto