60th ISLE Annual Conference

INDIAN SOCIETY OF LABOUR ECONOMICS (ISLE)

CALL FOR PAPERS

60th ISLE Annual Conference, 19-21 December 2018, Mumbai

The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) is pleased to announce its 60th Annual Conference to be held in Mumbai during 19-21 December 2018. This Conference which commemorates the Diamond Jubilee year of the formation of ISLE is being organised by the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. Professor Kaushik Basu, C Marks Professor, Cornell University and former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, The World Bank, is the Conference President. Dr. C. Veeramani, Professor, IGIDR and Mr. Jai Mohan Pandit, Registrar, IGIDR are the Co-Organising Secretaries of the Conference.

Conference Themes

- Emerging Labour Markets and Employment Challenges      

- Inequality in Labour Markets and Wellbeing

- World of Work and Women

Submission of Papers:  

The papers should be submitted online by creating an account at www.isleijle.org/60isleconference.  Alternatively, the papers may be emailed to conference.isle@gmail.com. For details related to word limit, style and references, please visit http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/41027.

Best Paper Awards and Fellowship:  Every year ISLE gives two best paper awards - Ruddar Datt Memorial Award and Sanjay Thakur Young Labour Economist Award (carrying a prize money of Rs. 10,000 each) - and one fellowship - Surjit Singh Fellowship (with a grant of Rs. 40, 000 for preparing a research paper/monograph related to one of the Conference themes) - to young scholars below 40 years. For further details, visit: www.isleijle.org/60isleconference