Ежегодная конференция Европейской Ассоциации экономистов по труду.
Юваскила, Финляндия, 13-16 сентября 2001 года.
Приглашение к участию.

CALL for Papers EALE Conference 2001

The 2001 meeting of the EALE will be held at the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland) on September 13th - 16th. The conference is organised in collaboration with the local organisers from the School of Business and Economics, University of Jyvaskyla and the EALE Secretariat in Maastricht.

You are invited to send in papers for submission, together with the enclosed preliminary registration form (see below). Papers are invited in any area of labour economics. A scientific committee will evaluate all submitted papers.

Those who wish to present a paper are requested to send full (draft) papers to the EALE Secretariat, Maastricht, Netherlands before 1 March 2001.

Papers accepted for presentation can be submitted for consideration for publication in the annual Conference Volume of the jounal "Labour Economics", edited in 2001 by Professor Simon Burgess.

Preparation of Abstracts and Papers for EALE 2001

Instructions for authors:
The papers should be sent in triplicate to the EALE secretariat in Maastricht. To each paper an abstract must be added, which will be published in a Book of Abstracts. The abstract must include the theme of the paper (see list of themes), keywords and JEL-code. The abstract must not be more than 250 words. Abstracts of more than 250 words will not be included in the Book of Abstracts. Please send an electronic version of the paper (including all tables, figures etc.) and of the abstract by e-mail or floppy disk to the EALE secretariat, Maastricht. Electronic versions have to be in PDF format and delivered as one file (no tables, figures etc. as separate files).

The abstract should have the following form:
Name of Conference (EALE 2001). Names of author and co-authors, with the PAPER PRESENTER IN CAPITALS; title of paper; theme of the paper and JEL code (see list of themes), institution of paper presenter sufficient as a mailing address.

An example is as follows:

EALE 2001
Philip Marey and LEX BORGHANS, Wage elasticities of the supply of R&D workers in the Netherlands

ROA, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands E-mail: l.borghans@roa.unimaas.nl

Endogenous growth theory shows the crucial importance of R&D for economic growth. However, the effectiveness of R&D policies is limited by the low wage elasticities of the supply of R&D workers. Estimating these elasticities for the Netherlands is hampered by the lack of appropriate micro-data. The empirical literature suggests that estimating wage elasticities from macro-data may be impossible. However, we show that the identification problem can be solved by performing the instrumental variables approach in a cointegration framework. We apply this estimation approach to macro-data from the R&D Survey of Statistics Netherlands. The wage elasticity of the supply of R&D workers in the Netherlands is 0.96 in the short run and 1.20 in the long run. When R&D expenditure is increased, the demand side of the labour market for R&D workers compensates for the short-run inflexibility of the supply side by strong wage increases in the short run and weaker responses in the long run. As a result, a 1.0% increase in real R&D spending will lead to a 0.5% increase in the employment of R&D workers, both in the short run and in the long run.

Theme: Labour Supply
Keywords: Wage Elasticities, R&D, Cointegration
JEL-Code: J22, J44, 038

When sending the paper and abstract electronically, you still have to send 3 printed copies of your paper and abstract. Printed, as well as electronic versions should be sent to the EALE secretariat, Maastricht:

EALE secretariat
ROA
Maastricht University
PO Box 616
NL-6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 (43) 3883647 Fax: +31 (43) 3884914
e-mail: eale@roa.unimaas.nl
http://www.fdewb.unimaas.nl/eale/

List of Themes:

1. Family and work (D13, J12, J13, J16)
2. Discrimination (J7, J16, J42)
3. Retirement and early exit (J14, J26)
4. Labour market policy (E64, J18, J38, J58, J65, J68)
5. Labour supply (H2, J21, J22)
6. Labour demand and employment (J21, J23)
7. Occupational choice and mobility (J24, J44,J62)
8. Education and training (J24, J31, I2)
9. Health and job satisfaction (J28)
10. Wage inequality and mobility (J31)
11. Personnel economics (J32, J33, M12)
12. Internal labour markets and labour relations (J41, J49)
13. Public sector labour markets (J45)
14. Unions, bargaining and conflict resolutions (J51, J52)
15. Microeconomics of unemployment (J63, J64, J65, E24)
16. Macroeconomics of unemployment (J63, J64, J65, E24)
17. Migration (F22, J61, J62, R23)
18. Regional labour markets (J43, R23, R58)
19. Labour markets in transition economies (P2, P3)
20. Welfare, income distribution and poverty (D3)
21. Historical labour economics (N3)
22. Working hours (J21, J22, J23)
23. Profiling and early identification of long term unemployment (J64, J68)

For more information about the JEL classification system see http://www.econlit.org/elclasjn.htm

Please submit papers as early as possible:
submissions will not be considered if received after March 1, 2001