Key areas covered include

  • human capital
  • wage inequalit
  • labour mobility and unemployment dynamics
  • migration
  • family economics and gender gaps
  • contracts and organizations
  • technological change
  • labour market institutions
  • welfare policy

Events

The LE Symposium (ESSLE) is a two-day conference typically held in June each year, bringing together researchers from all areas of labour economics.

The LE programme also organizes other regular conferences in collaborations with non-academic institutions, including the ECB, the Bank of Italy, the Banque de France, the ILO and the EBRD. These conferences have typically focused on specific areas such as the labour market impacts of technological progress and international trade; the performance of labour markets in developing countries; intergenerational mobility; macro perspectives on the labour market.

Programme Directors

Researchers

Abigail Adams-Prassl

Associate Professor in Economics Department of Economics, University of Oxford; Research Fellow Institute for Fiscal Studies

Yann Algan

Professor of Economics Paris School Of Economics; Professor of Economics University of Paris-Est

Manuel Bagues

Professor University of Essex, Department of Economics; Professor University Of Warwick

Martha J. Bailey

Professor, Department of Economics University of California, Los Angeles

Sascha O. Becker

Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics Monash University; part-time Professor of Economics Monash University and University of Warwick; Part-time Professor of Economics University Of Warwick

Marianne Bertrand

Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics the Booth School of Business University Of Chicago

Richard Blundell

Associate Faculty Director, ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy Institute for Fiscal Studies; David Ricardo Chair of Political Economy University College London

jan boone

Professor of Industrial Economics Tilburg University

Lucia Corno

Associate Professor of Economics Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Executive Director, Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies (LEAP) Universita' Luigi Bocconi

Bram De Rock

Director ECARES, ULB; Professor of Economics ECARES, ULB

Daniela Del Boca

Professor of Economics Collegio Carlo Alberto; Professor of Economics University of Turin

Juan Dolado

Professor of Economics European University Institute; Professor of Economics Professor of Economics Universidad Carlos III (Madrid, Spain)

David Dorn

Chair of International Trade and Labor Markets Universitat Zurich; UBS Foundation Professor of Globalization and Labor Markets

Christian Dustmann

Director Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration; Professor of Economics University College London

Armin Falk

Chief Executive Officer briq; Professor of Economics University of Bonn

Reto Foellmi

Professor of International Economics University of St Gallen

Alessandra Fogli

Research Affiliate Centre for Economic Policy Research; Associate Professor Universita' Luigi Bocconi

Margherita Fort

Assistant Professor in Econometrics, School of Economics University Of Bologna

Denis Fougère

Senior Research Fellow Centre national de la recherche scientifique; Research Fellow Sciences-Po Paris - University

Pietro Garibaldi

Research Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research; Director Collegio Carlo Alberto; Professor of Economics University of Turin

Robert J. Gary-Bobo

Researcher Center for Research in Economics and Statistics; Professor of Economics Paris School Of Economics

Christina Gathmann

Professor of Economics, Head of Labor Market Department Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research

Pieter A. Gautier

Professor of Economics Vrije Universieit; Professor of Economics Tinbergen Institute

Paola Giuliano

Research Associate National Bureau of Economic Research; Professor of Economics and Justice Elwood Lui Endowed Term Chair in Management, UCLA Anderson School of Management Ucla

Albrecht Glitz

Associate Professor Associate Professor Pompeu Fabra University

Eric Gould

Professor of Economics Professor of Economics Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Research Fellow IZA Institute of Labor Economics; Fellow at CReAM University College London; Fellow at CReAM University College London

maia guell

Research Fellow Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA); Research Fellow IZA Institute of Labor Economics; Professor of Economics University of Edinburgh

Jennifer Hunt

Professor of Economics Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Andrea Ichino

Managing Editor Economic Policy; Professor of Economics European University Institute; Professor of Economics University Of Bologna

Philipp Kircher

Professor of Economics European University Institute; Professor of Economics University of Edinburgh

Rafael Lalive

Professor of Economics HEC-Lausanne (University of Lausanne)

Camille Landais

Professor of Economics London School of Economics and Political Sciences

Victor Lavy

William Haber Chaired Professor of Economics Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Chaired Professor of Economics Royal Holloway University of London

Michael Lechner

Professor and Chair of Econometrics, University of St. Gallen University of St. Gallen

Eric Lindqvist

Affiliated Researcher Research Institute of Industrial Economics; Assistant Professor Stockholm School of Economics

Stephen Machin

Professor of Economics, Centre for Economic Performance London School of Economics and Political Sciences

Ulrike M. Malmendier

Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business and Professor of Economics University Of California, Berkeley

Marco Manacorda

Research Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research; Professor of Economics and Public Policy Queen Mary University Of London

Costas Meghir

Douglas A. Warner III Professor of Economics Yale University

Monika Merz

Professor of Economics Department of Economics, University of Bergen

Guy Michaels

Associate Professor in the Department of Economics London School of Economics and Political Sciences

Enrico Moretti

Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Professor of Economics University Of California, Berkeley

Jessica Pan

Associate Professor of Economics National University Of Singapore

Daniele Paserman

Professor of Economics Boston University; Research Affiliate Centre for Economic Policy Research

Michele Pellizzari

Professor of Economics at the Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva; Research Fellow, CEPR University of Geneva

Roland Rathelot

Professor Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Assistant Professor University Of Warwick

Kjell G Salvanes

Professor at the Department of Economics, Director Center for Empirical Labor Economics (CELE), and deputy-director of FAIR, Center of Excellence DICE, HHU Duesseldorf

Joel Shapiro

Professor of Financial Economics Department of Economics, University of Oxford

Dennis Snower

Senior Research Fellow Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University; President Global Solutions Initiative; Professorial Research Fellow INET Oxford; Program Chair The New Institute

Mark Stabile

Professor European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD)

Jan C. van Ours

Professor of Applied Economics Professor of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics Erasmus University Rotterdam; Professorial Fellow at the Department of Economics University of Melbourne

John Van Reenen

Ronald Coase School Professor London School of Economics and Political Sciences; Professor of Applied Economics MIT Sloan School of Management

Etienne Wasmer

Professor of Economics New York University Abu Dhabi; Professor of Economics, LIEPP Sciences-Po Paris - University

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Professor at Labour Economics Institute for Advanced Studies; Professor at Labour Economics Johannes Kepler University of Linz

Justin Wolfers

Professor of Economics University of Michigan–Ann Arbor; Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton School University Of Pennsylvania

Eran Yashiv

Member, Centre for Macroeconomics London School of Economics and Political Sciences; Professor of Economics Tel Aviv University

Yves Zenou

Research Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research; Professor and Richard Snape Chair in Business and Economics Monash University

Klaus F. Zimmermann

President Global Labor Organization (GLO); Co–Director of POP (Center for Population, Development and Labour Economics) United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology; Professor (em.) University of Bonn

Research affiliates

Manudeep Bhuller

Associate Professor Associate Professor, University of Oslo, Department of Economics University of Oslo

Barbara Biasi

Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale School Of Management Yale University

Anna Bindler

Associate Professor, Economics University of Gothenburg

Michela Carlana

Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University

Niklas Engbom

Assistant Professor in Economics Stern School of Business, New York University

Francesco Fasani

Reader, School of Economics and Finance Queen Mary University Of London

Simon Franklin

Assistant Professor at School of Economics Queen Mary University Of London

Joan Monras

Assistant Professor of Economics ICREA Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Assistant Professor of Economics Pompeu Fabra University

Christian Moser

Assistant Professor and Chazen Senior Scholar, Columbia Business School Columbia University

Andreas Mueller

Associate Professor The University of Texas at Austin; Associate Professor

Anna Raute

Assistant Professor in Economics Queen Mary University Of London

Alexandra Roulet

Assistant Professor of Economics European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD)

Nicole Schneeweis

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics Johannes Kepler University of Linz

Jan Stuhler

Associate Professor Universidad Carlos III (Madrid, Spain)

Melanie Wasserman

Assistant Professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management University of California, Los Angeles

Upcoming events

Past events