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Call for Papers: Jobs, Skills, and Productivity in Structural Transformations

When:
From:
TUE, 7 OCT 2025, 9:00 AM
To:
WED, 8 OCT 2025, 5:30 PM
Where:
Browary Warszawskie, Grzybowska 56 Street; 00-844 Warsaw

ADN Conference Centre
Building GH; entry B
With:
AnnaSalomons
Prof. Anna Salomons
Michel Serafinelli
Dr. Michel Serafinelli
Partners:
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Call for papers is open!
Paper submissions are open until 16 MAY 2025
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Organised by the Institute for Structural Research (IBS), Institute for Employment Research (IAB), and Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), the international scientific conference Jobs, Skills, and Productivity in Structural Transformations aims to bring together leading scholars in the social sciences to address the challenges of the employability, skill mismatches and skill upgrading, social cohesion, and public policy responses to industrial and structural transitions. 

The conference marks the third international conference of the ELMI Network (Network of European Labour Market Research Institutes), composed of 11 research institutes to facilitate the international exchange of best practices, ideas and people (www.elmi-network.eu). It promotes multi-disciplinary European research collaborations, and the exchange of best practices in data management, data access, and discussions with policy-makers and stakeholders.  

We are particularly interested in papers that address the following issues: 

  • Labour market consequences and long-term career trajectories of workers affected by deindustralisation and large structural shifts 
  • The impact of green and digital transitions on skill demand and skill mismatches 
  • Labour market consequences of military rearmament 
  • Regional disparities in labour market adaptation to structural change 
  • The role of education systems in preparing workers for structural transitions 
  • The effectiveness of active labour market policies (ALMPs) in addressing structural transformations 

 

Scientific Committee 

Melanie Arntz, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) 

Bernd Fitzenberger, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) 

Christina Gathmann, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) 

Piotr Lewandowski, Institute for Structural Research (IBS) 

Ludivine Martin, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) 

Jakub Sokołowski, Institute for Structural Research (IBS) 

Adrien Thomas, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) 

 

Submission Details: 

  • Please submit a full paper or an extended abstract via THE SUBMIT button 
  • Deadline: midnight CET, 16 May 2025
  • Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 15 June 2025
  • All presenters must register by 15 July 2025. 

  

Conference information 

The conference will be held in-person. 

There will be no registration fees. 

 

Local organisation:

Institute for Structural Research (IBS) www.ibs.org.pl 

Piotr Lewandowski, Scientific Coordinator 

Magdalena Krasuska, Organisational Coordinator  

 

Email for further information: elmi_2025@ibs.org.pl 

Kenote Speakers
AnnaSalomons
Prof. Anna Salomons
Tilburg University, Utrecht University
Anna Salomons is an Instituut Gak endowed professor at Utrecht University’s School of Economics and a professor at Tilburg University's Department of Economics. She is also a Research Fellow at IZA, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Technology & Policy Research Initiative at Boston University, the Block Center for Technology and Society at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Shaping the Future of Work Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research explores various labor market topics, with a focus on the labor market impacts of technological change, including consequences for earnings levels and inequality, employment and the job structure, and skill demand and supply. In 2024, she received the European Economic Association's Role Models in Economics Award.
Michel Serafinelli
Dr. Michel Serafinelli
King's Business School, King's College London
Senior Lecturer in Economics at King's Business School. His primary fields are Labour & Regional Economics. Some of his research is at the intersection of his primary fields and Environmental Economics/Political Economy. He mainly studies the causes and the consequences of differences across space in labour market outcomes. Within this agenda, research keywords are green transition, productivity, regional institutions; policy keywords are “levelling up” and “hitting net zero”.

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