Subject: Call for Papers: The Nature of Discrimination (IZA Workshop)
From: Daniel Hamermesh (hamermes@eco.utexas.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 04 2003 - 11:05:42 EST
Dear NBER Colleagues,
I will hold a one-day workshop at IZA in Bonn on Tuesday, June 1, 2004.
The topic is: THE NATURE OF DISCRIMINATION
This is a workshop, not a conference. It seeks to provide a forum for
people working within a fairly narrow topic to exchange ideas by
presenting papers that are at the stage of early drafts. We seek studies
that consider why apparently discriminatory earnings differentials arise;
whether in fact such differentials merely represent the returns to
productive characteristics; and, more generally, what we mean by
discrimination. Studies that analyze about the meaning of discrimination,
that measure the relative importance of its sources (but that do not only
do the usual earnings decompositions from standard Mincer-type equations)
are appropriate. The topic can also be described as what it is not: It is
not the measurement of yet another wage differential between one group or
another. In short, we seek papers that offer something new in this area.
We have room for 8 papers. If you are interested, please respond to me:
hamermes@eco.utexas.edu with a proposal by January 15, 2004. The proposal
should consist of a cover email and a 200-word abstract of the paper. (Of
course, if you have a complete early draft and want to send that, that
would be fine too.) I will let you know by February 1, 2004, whether your
proposal has been accepted for the workshop.
IZA will cover inexpensive air fares, two nights of lodging and 1-1/2 days
of meals. For more information see the <a
href="http://www.iza.org/iza/en/webcontent/calls_conferences/iza_discrimination_june_2004">workshop
homepage at IZA</a>. --
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Centennial Professor of Economics
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1173 USA
Tel: 512 475-8526
Fax: 512 471-3510
Homepage: http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Hamermesh/
