Conference “Labor Economics and Its Public Policy Impact on Economic Growth”
2015-11-21 00:00:00
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CERGE-EI
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On Saturday, 21 November, 2015, CERGE-EI in cooperation with IZA institute in Bonn, organizes a conference focusing on labor market and public policy titled “Labor Economics and its Public Policy Impact on Economic Growth”.
The conference is held as to honor Jan Švejnar winning the IZA Prize in Labor Economics.
We would like to invite you to one of the major academic events of the year. On Saturday, 21 November, 2015 at 1:30 pm CERGE-EI will host a conference titled "Labor Economics and its Public Policy Impact on Economic Growth".
The conference will host distinguished academic speakers such as Alan Krueger (former Chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers), Henry Farber (Professor, Princeton University), Klaus F. Zimmermann (Director, IZA) Jan Švejnar (Columbia University, CERGE-EI) as well as key policy makers in the Czech Republic — Andrej Babiš (Ministry of Finance) and Michaela Marksová (Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs). For comprehensive list of speakers see attached program.
We are also excited to announce that Christopher Sims (2011 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics) will be attending the conference.
The conference is organized jointly with the Bonn-based Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) which awarded Jan Švejnar the IZA Prize in Labor Economics for his major contributions to labor, development and comparative economics in general, and the economics of transition from centrally planned to market economies in particular.
Please, contact rsvp@cerge-ei.cz to reserve your place. The conference is free of charge.
