Date: December 12, 2025
Location: German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)
The one-day workshop provides young labor economists the chance to present and discuss their research. It provides a forum to meet and exchange with fellow doctoral students, post-docs and professors from the field of labor economics. The workshop is targeted at PhD students and aims to facilitate exchange between junior and senior academics. This year, we are happy to announce that Edoardo Teso (Bocconi/Northwestern) and Hannah Illing (Bonn/IAB) will be our excellent keynote speakers at the workshop.
We are looking forward to submissions from PhD students working on topics in labor economics, political economy, and related fields from an empirical, theoretical, or experimental perspective. Equally, we encourage the submission of work in early stages. All projects presented at the BeNA workshop will be considered for the BeNA Innovative Research Award in the amount of €200. The workshop will take place in the friendly atmosphere of the DIW (German Institute for Economic Research) on December 12, 2025.
If you want to present your work, please submit an abstract or a draft of your paper by November 8, 2025 to workshop@labor-research.net. The decision on your submission will be communicated by November 15, 2025. If you’d like to join the workshop as an attendee rather than a presenter, please contact us with your name and affiliation at workshop@labor-research.net.
You can download the call for papers here.
BeNA Organizers:
Marco Schmandt (TU Berlin)
Max Deter (U Potsdam)