Dear colleagues,

 

The Research Institute Economics of Inequality at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the UCL Social Research Institute and the KOF Economic Institute at the ETH Zürich, are delighted to announce the 3rd Workshop on Wealth Inequality, Economic Mobility and Labor Markets.

 

The workshop will be held at WU Vienna on November 18 & 19, 2026.

 

Please see the attached Call for Papers for Details.

 

Keynotes Two keynote lectures will be delivered by

  • Emily Nix (University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business) and
  • Nathan Wilmers (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management)

Themes We are especially interested in work using administrative and other high-quality or innovative data to study one or several of the following:

  • Economic mobility over the life course, including career trajectories and their interaction with intergenerational processes
  • The role of labor markets, macroeconomic conditions, and employers in shaping economic mobility
  • The link between institutions (such as vocational education, trade unions, and minimum wage policies) and labor market outcomes
  • Social contacts in hiring, job mobility, retention, promotion, and access to leadership positions
  • Family background, inheritance, and the transmission of advantage across generations
  • Wealth taxation and its impact on inequality and economic mobility
  • The geography of inequality and economic mobility

This two-day workshop aims to be an interdisciplinary event. We particularly encourage contributions from economists, sociologists, and closely related disciplines.

The submission deadline is June 30. Please submit your work via this form.  

 

 

 

Best regards,

 

Franziska Disslbacher

 


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Franziska Disslbacher, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department Socio-Economics &

Research Institute Economics of Inequality

WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business

 

+43 1 313 36 6669

franziska.disslbacher@wu.ac.at

franziskadisslbacher.com

 

London School of Economics - Research Fellow |

World Inequality Lab, PSE - Research Fellow |

Stone-Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY New York |

CenTax - Center for the Analysis of Taxation, Warwick |

German Institute for Economic Research - SOEP Associate

 

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