Economists have traditionally focused on wages, pay-for-performance, monitoring, and other formal arrangements in explaining workplace performance and worker turnover. Inspired by empirical findings, both in economics and in other branches of the social sciences, recent studies have started to explore the role of human relations and reciprocity in the workplace, and how these affect and are affected by formal workplace arrangements. This conference aims to bring together economists working on this topic to present and discuss work in progress. 15 papers will be presented over two days (30 minutes paper presentation, 5 minutes discussant, 10 minutes general discussion per paper). Each paper presenter will serve as discussant of one paper. The conference will comprise both invited and contributed papers.
Paper submission procedure:
A paper or extended abstract should be sent by e-mail to Robert Dur. The deadline for submission was 1 November 2008. Decisions were taken before 8 November 2008.
We will provide accommodation and reimburse economy travel costs for paper presenters. If you would like to participate without presenting a paper, please register by sending an e-mail to Robert Dur (dur@few.eur.nl). Participation is free, but space is limited.
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit their paper for a special issue of Economics of Governance , subject to the regular refereeing process.
Further information about the conference is available at:
http://people.few.eur.nl/dur/conference08.htm