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Submissions

The 8th CEPR-Banca d’Italia Workshop: Labour Market Policies and Institutions will take place in Rome on September 25-26, 2025. The aim of the workshop is to bring together leading and emerging labour economists.

Although we invite submissions on a broader set of topics, we particularly welcome papers on:

  • Wage setting: minimum wages, trade unions, collective bargaining
  • Working from home: implications for workers, firms and work organization
  • The impact of technological change on the labour market, including the interaction with labour market institutions
  • Policies to increase labour supply and address ageing: migration policies, pension reforms and policies to reconcile work and family life
  • Fiscal and welfare programmes: basic income schemes, hiring and income subsidies, payroll taxation

Keynote speakers will be Christian Dustmann (UCL and CEPR) and Zoe Cullen (Harvard Business School).

Funding:

The workshop will be held at the headquarters of the Banca d’Italia in Rome. Financial support for economy class air travel and 1-night hotel accommodation (2 nights for non-European travelers) will be provided to all speakers who request it at the time of submission (further details about the Banca d’Italia reimbursement guidelines will be provided upon acceptance). In order to promote the desired interaction, participants are required to stay for the entire duration of the workshop. The programme will start on Thursday morning (25 September) and end on Friday afternoon (26 September).

How to apply:
The application deadline is 6pm (BST) on Sunday May 18, 2025. Acceptance or rejection decisions by the programme committee will be announced by the first week of June.

Only one submission per author is allowed.

To indicate interest in participating without presenting a paper, follow the instructions below to apply and select the option to apply to attend without presenting a paper.

Authors who are CEPR affiliated or already have a CEPR profile can upload their submission by:

  1. Going to https://hub.cepr.org/ and logging in
  2. After you have logged in, go to https://hub.cepr.org/event/4589
  3. Click on "Step 1: Apply" OR If you have been pre-registered as you are connected to a relevant programme area click on "Change registration details"
  4. Under "Apply to Attend" click "Yes"
  5. Tick the boxes that apply to you 
  6. Tick "Would you like to submit a paper?", upload your paper and input the requested information
  7. Click "Submit form" to complete the submission.

Authors who are not CEPR affiliated or do not have a CEPR profile can:

  1. Creating a new profile here https://hub.cepr.org/user/register
  2. Going to https://hub.cepr.org/ and logging in
  3. After you have logged in, go to https://hub.cepr.org/event/4589
  4. Click on "Step 1: Apply"
  5. Under "Apply to Attend" click "Yes"
  6. Tick the boxes that apply to you 
  7. Tick "Would you like to submit a paper?", upload your paper and input the requested information
  8. Click "Submit form" to complete the submission.

If you have any difficulty applying, please email Despoina Chatzilari, Senior Events Officer at [email protected] with the subject header "8th CEPR-Banca d’Italia Workshop".