Workshop in Labor Economics: WEI IV

About the conference

Since 2017, we have organized a set of workshops focusing on “core” labor economics issues (wages, employment, inequality). We have perceived the series as a great success and have consistently had to reject many excellent submissions. In response to popular demand, we are therefore pleased to announce the 4th workshop in this series. Previous editions were held in Helsinki, but this time we are relocating to our other academic home in Uppsala, Sweden.

The workshop will take place in central Uppsala on September 4-5, 2026. We are honoured to have two outstanding keynotes: Simon Jäger and Anna Salomons. In addition, we have already secured two exciting invited speakers: Lena Hensvik and Alexander Willén.

The workshop venue is Clarion Hotel Gillet in Uppsala.

The program will combine a set of longer presentations with sessions of shorter, but uninterrupted, 7-minute presentations—which have been very popular in the past—alongside the keynote lectures. Research papers focus on wages, employment, and/or inequality. We always make room for a set of papers on collective agreements. The workshop will feature a mix of junior and senior presenters.

We will reimburse accommodation and travel within Europe for all accepted presenters, conditional on participation for the full duration of the two-day workshop.

The workshop is organized by the Uppsala Center for Labor Studies and AISCAF at Uppsala University and the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research, VATT Institute for Economic Research, in Helsinki, with generous support from Handelsbankens Forskningsstiftelser.

Organizers

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

Contact in administrative issues (re: speakers’ travel, accommodation, and reimbursements): Administrator Viivi Lissåker, viivi.lissaker@nek.uu.se

Contact regarding the programme: fit.events@tuni.fi, or directly to organisers.