• Do trade unions in Central and Eastern Europe make a difference? by Iga Magda
• Multitasking at work: Do firms get what they pay for? by Ann P. Bartel
• Motherhood wage penalty may affect pronatalist policies by Olena Y. Nizalova
• International trade and economic insecurity by Mine Z. Senses
• The happiness gap between transition and non-transition countries by Ekaterina Skoglund
• Multiple job-holding: Career pathway or dire straits? by Konstantinos Pouliakas
• Gender differences in corporate hierarchies by Antti Kauhanen
• How do candidates' looks affect their election chances? by Panu Poutvaara
• Can diversity encourage entrepreneurship in transition economies? by Elena Nikolova
• Gross domestic product: Are other measures needed? by Barbara M. Fraumeni

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• Second World Congress of Comparative Economics, June 15-17. The Congress, held at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg, will include plenary sessions, workshops, as well as the editors’ panel and special events. There will also be a small exhibition area which will give participants the opportunity to meet with vendors who specialize in providing e-resources.
• Chatham House Future of Work 2017, June 23, London. Senior policymakers and business leaders will discuss labor market strains and their drivers, technological trends and their implications for employment, skills provision and enhancing human capital alongside growth, and the rise of the independent worker. Read the agenda.
• IZA Labor Statistics Workshop on the Changing Structure of Work, June 29-30. The aim of the 2017 workshop of IZA’s "Labor Statistics" program area is to bring together senior and junior researchers to discuss their recent empirical research related to changes in the structure of work. 
• International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization: Academy on Labour Migration, July 3-14, Turin. The Academy on Labour Migration (LMA) offers participants a unique opportunity to benefit from a diversified training package, exploring fair and effective labor migration governance, linkages between migration and sustainable development, and instruments and mechanisms for protecting migrants' and their families' rights.
• Call for papers: AIEL XXXII National Conference of Labour Economics, September 14-15. We are pleased to invite you to attend the 32nd Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Labour Economists to be hosted by the Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance “Giovanni Anania” at the University of Calabria in the Arcavacata Campus in Rende (Cosenza), on September 14-15, 2017. Submission deadline: June 15.
• Call for papers: IZA/Volkswagen Foundation Workshop: Preferences, Personality Traits and the Labor Market, October 6-7. We are very pleased to announce the IZA/Volkswagen Foundation Workshop on the impact of preferences and personality traits on the labor market in post-transition, emerging, and developing economies. Submission deadline: July 1.
• Call for papers: IZA Workshop: Labor Productivity and the Digital Economy, October 30-31. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers analyzing wider labor market impacts of the digital economy, i.e. how these technological changes have directly and indirectly affected the world of work, in particular labor productivity. Submission deadline: July 1.