Call for Papers

The 5th International Symposium on Human Capital and the Labor Market

Celebrating Release of the China Human Capital Report 2013

The China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research (CHLR)

Central University of Finance and Economics

http://humancapital.cufe.edu.cn/

December 15, 2013

Beijing, China

We invite submission of papers. Topics dealing with the broad areas of human capital and labor markets are all welcome. Abstracts (250 words) must be submitted no later than October 15, 2013 to the site: http://humancapital.cufe.edu.cn/en1/baoming.html.
The one-day conference will feature the release of the fifth annual China Human Capital Report-2013. We plan to arrange keynote speeches by Nobel Laureates and government officials in the morning, followed by parallel sessions of presentation and discussion of original research papers in the afternoon.
Submitted papers will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee. Presenters will be notifiedby October 30, 2013.
Presenters will be provided with two nights’ hotel accommodation in Beijing (December 14 and 15) and meals during the Conference. Selected international presenters will be reimbursed up to US $1,000 subject to budgetary limitations. The decision on the trip subsidy will be announced by November 15.
All papers accepted for presentation must be submitted to the conference by December 1 so that discussants have sufficient time to prepare. Papers presented will, upon submission for publication, be considered under the normal review process for inclusion in a Symposium that will be published in a regular issue of China Economic Review.
For questions and inquiries, please check the CHLR website for updated information. Or for logistics and related matters contact Miss Beiwen Sun (email: sungreta@gmail.com); and for papers/sessions contact Miss Bo Li (email: marsli1229@gmail.com).

Organizing Committee

CHLR Special-Term/Visiting Professor

Belton Fleisher (Chair), Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University

Haizheng Li (Chair), Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Barbara Fraumeni, Professor, University of Southern Maine

Zhiqiang Liu, Associate Professor, SUNY at Buffalo

Xiaojun Wang, Associate Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa

CHLR Full-Time Faculty

Simon Chang, Ph.D, Michigan State Univ.

Li Yu, Ph.D, Iowa State Univ.

Chun Wing Tse, Ph.D, Boston Univ.

Sophie Wang, Ph.D, Simon Fraser Univ.

Fang Xia, Ph.D, Michigan State Univ.

Fanzheng Yang, Ph.D, Iowa State Univ.