3rd Workshop on Wealth Inequality, Economic Mobility and Labor Markets

November 19 - 20, 2026

Call for Papers

Submission page

The Research Institute Economics of Inequality at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Franziska Disslbacher), the UCL Social Research Institute (Per Engzell) and the KOF Economic Institute at the ETH Zürich (Isabel Z. Martínez), are delighted to announce the 3rd Workshop on Wealth Inequality, Economic Mobility and Labor Markets.

Keynotes

Two keynote lectures will be delivered by Emily Nix (University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business) and Nathan Wilmers(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management).

Workshop Themes

We are delighted to announce a workshop on wealth inequality, economic mobility and labor markets. We are especially interested in work using administrative and other high-quality or innovative data to study one or several of the following:

• Economic mobility over the life course, including career trajectories and their interaction with intergenerational processes

• The role of labor markets, macroeconomic conditions, and employers in shaping economic mobility

• The link between institutions (such as vocational education, trade unions, and minimum wage policies) and labor market outcomes

• Social contacts in hiring, job mobility, retention, promotion, and access to leadership positions

• Family background, inheritance, and the transmission of advantage across generations

• Wealth taxation and its impact on inequality and economic mobility

• The geography of inequality and economic mobility

This two-day workshop aims to be an interdisciplinary event. We particularly encourage contributions from economists, sociologists, and closely related disciplines. Attendees can expect to engage with approximately 40 participants working on closely related topics and questions.

The submission deadline is June 30. We will communicate acceptance decisions in early August. If you require an earlier decision in order to apply for a visa, please indicate this in the submission form. We consider submissions of full papers and extended abstracts. All else equal, preference will be given to full papers.

Submissions will be evaluated by our scientific committee.

Scientific Comittee

• Lieke Beekers (Leiden University)

• Enea Baselgia (KOF Institut)

• Joshua Choper (UCL)

• Valentina Consiglio (University of Zurich)

• Ginevra Floridi (University of Edinburgh)

• Andrei Gorshkov (IFAU)

• Jan Gromadzki (Vienna University of Economics & Business)

• Anja Gschwend (ETH Zurich)

• Ben Jann (University of Bern)

• Markus Jäntti (SOFI, Stockholm University)

• Lukas Lehner (University of Edinburgh)

• Clara Martínez-Toledano (Imperial College London)

• Salvatore Morelli (University of Roma Tre)

• Katy Morris (SOFI, Stockholm University)

• Lorenzo Navarini (University of Vienna)

• Petra Sauer (University of Fribourg)

• Anna Schwarz (Vienna University of Economics & Business)

• Jan Stuhler (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

• Nhat An Trinh (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)

• Linda Wu (UBC and Michigan)

• Elisabeth Wurm (Central European University)