CALL for PAPERS
41st AIEL Conference

The Italian Association of Labour Economics (AIEL), the Department of Political Sciences and the Department of Law of Roma Tre University are pleased to invite submissions for the 41st AIEL Conference, to be held in Rome, 17-19 September 2026. The programme will include invited lectures and parallel sessions. The conference will provide an opportunity to discuss issues related to labour economics and to develop research collaborations. The official language of the conference will be English.


Keynote Lectures
The keynote speakers will be Katrine Løken (Norwegian School of Economics) and Giovanni Peri (UC Davis).


Important dates
Deadline for submissions: 15 April 2026
Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2026
Deadline for early registration: 1 June 2026
Deadline for registration: 15 June 2026
Conference: 17-19 September 2026

Further details can be found on the AIEL website.

Stanislav Avdeev wins Best Paper Award at the ESPE Conference in Naples

Stanislav Avdeev was awarded the 2025 ESPE PhD Prize, created to recognize outstanding work by PhD candidates in population economics.

Stanislav is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Amsterdam. His paper, “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization,” explores the long-term impact of international students on native students in higher education.

This year’s conference was held in Naples on June 12-14, 2025, and featured close to 250 presentations divided into 9 sessions, out of which 20% of the presentations were by PhD students. You can visit the conference website for a full program.

Other shortlisted papers were:

“Family Spillovers of Miscarriage” by Lea-Karla Matić
“Experience Rating in Short-Time Work” by Giulia Tarullo
“Migration, Diffusion of Ideas and the Rise of the American Labor Movement: Evidence from the American Civil War” by Pablo Zarate

ESPE wishes to congratulate the winner and the short-listed candidates.