CANCELLED DUE TO COVID 19 VIRUS: International Conference on Education and Decent Work for Youth June 4-5 Zürich Switzerland
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID 19 VIRUS: Before the outbreak to COVID 19 virus, the Swiss Economic Institute KOF together with NADEL Center for Development Cooperation wanted to hold the conference on June 4-5, 2020 at ETH Zurich. We invited contributions of scholars from economics, sociology and educational science. Deadline for submissions was: March 1, 2020.
The aim of the Education and Decent Work for Youth (LELAM2020) conference is to provide a platform for leading scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to reflect on and discuss the drivers of high quality education and training, as well as improved working conditions, for youth in developing countries. Over two days, the conference will feature three keynote speakers, academic parallel sessions, project presentations from practice, and multiple policy plenary sessions.
The conference web-site can be found external pageherecall_made.
Keynote speakers:
Jamie McCasland Assistant Professor of Economics, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Colombia, Canada
Jochen Kluve Professor of Economics at the School of Business and Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Head of the Evaluation Unit at KfW Development Bank, Germany
Pierre Dillenbourg Professor in Learning Technologies, School of Computer & Communication Sciences, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
We invite contributions from economics, sociology and educational science that address the following (or closely related) topics for low- and middle-income countries:
- Factors encouraging the participation of youth in education
- Conditions enhancing decent work for youth
- The role of firms in improving education and youth skills
- Incentives of firms to provide decent work for youth
- Policies that improve access to and quality of secondary and tertiary education and vocational skills training
- Policies for improved youth working conditions
- Policies linking education and labor markets
- Institutions and governance related to education and working conditions
- Success factors and barriers to education reform
- Measuring skills of youth in low- and middle-income countries
- Designing and implementing surveys measuring individual and firm outcomes
Submissions
Only submissions of extended abstracts (min. 3 pages) or full papers (not more than first drafts) are accepted. These should be submitted through this website. Therefore, please go on the tab "Conference submissions and registration as attendee".
Opening call for papers: November 15, 2019
Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2020
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2020