Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality (WEI 2025)

Wages, Employment and Inequality III in Helsinki 21 – 22 August 2025

We organized a first workshop on “core” labor market topics in Helsinki in 2017 and we perceived it as a great success. After some delay, we restarted the workshop under the label Wages, Employment and Inequality (or WEI) in 2023. The new workshop was an even greater success – we had to reject so many excellent submissions that we immediately decided to continue the tradition. So, on popular demand, we now announce the launch of the third workshop in our series!

The workshop will be held in central Helsinki on August 21 and 22, 2025. We are honoured to have two excellent keynotes speakers: Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and Stephen Machin, London School of Economics and Political Science.

In addition, we have already secured two exciting invited speakers: Ana Cardoso, Institute for Economic Analysis and Barcelona School of Economics, and Alexandra Spitz-Oener, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Rockwool Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work, and Institute for Employment Research in Nuremberg.

The plan is to combine a few long presentations with a session of shorter (flash) presentations alongside the two keynote addresses. Suitable work focuses on Wages, Employment and/or Inequality.

In the Call for Papers (DL March, 30), almost 100 excellent research papers were received, thank you! We’ll contact the authors of accepted papers in due course.

The workshop programme and practical information for participants will be updated to this page later.

Enquiries: fit.events@tuni.fi

Organisers

Tuomas Kosonen, VATT, FIT
Oskar Nordström Skans, Uppsala University

The workshop is jointly organized by the Finnish centre of excellence in Tax Systems Research, VATT Institute for Economic Research and Uppsala Center for Labor Studies at Uppsala University.

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