The Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration is a joint initiative of CERDI, PSE, LISER, the University of Luxembourg, Universidad Carlos III, CEPII, and the IC Migrations.

It offers Ph.D. students and early-stage researchers (post-docs and assistant professors with less than 3 years of experience) an opportunity to share their work in a constructive environment, as well as to exchange the results of recent research in different fields of migration economics. 

This workshop follows the spirit of the online webinar series on the economics of migration, an initiative that was launched in April 2020 to provide a platform for economists working on migration to present their work virtually.

The first edition of the workshop took place on June 15-16, 2023, at the IC Migrations, Paris. 

The event is scheduled to be held on June 25-26, 2024, in LISER (Belval, Luxembourg).

The keynote speakers for the event are:

Christina Gathmann (LISER)

Christina Gathmann is Head of the Labour Market Department at LISER and Professor at the Department of Economics and Finance, University of Luxembourg. She obtained her PhD at the University of Chicago. After her PhD, she spent five years at Stanford University and two years at the University of Mannheim, before joining the University of Heidelberg as full professor. Christina is an internationally highly regarded labor economist whose work is published regularly in the top economic journals. Her research program at LISER centers around the development of human capital over the life cycle -and the effectiveness and impact of government policies or institutional rules on people’s choices and broader economic outcomes. 

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Olof Åslund (Uppsala University)

Olof Åslund is a visiting professor at the Department of Economics at Uppsala University and holds a part-time position at IFAU. He is the former Director General of IFAU (2010-2019). He is also a member of the Delegation for Migration Studies (Delmi) and has also been research leader at SNS. His research interests include immigration and the labor market, the importance of the environment and networks in the labor market, and the policy's labor market effects. His research has been published in a number of international journals and he has also contributed to a large number of popular science books, reports and articles.

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Hillel Rapoport (PSE) 

Hillel Rapoport is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics, where he holds the PSE Research Chair in International Migration Economics, and a scientific advisor at CEPII. He held positions at Bar-Ilan University and at the University of Lille and visiting positions at Stanford University and Harvard University. Since 2008, he is the Scientific Coordinator of the “migration and development” conferences jointly organised by the French Development Agency and the World Bank. His research focuses on the growth and developmental impact of migration. His other research interests include economic history, political economy, and the economics of immigration and diversity.

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