Events
The impact of Industrial Relations changes on workers – do economists agree? - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Oct 18, 2024, 12:00 pm
The last few years have seen significant legislation changes in the area of industrial relations. The prior decade also saw significant changes in firms’ hiring practices, and an explosion of platform work, considered by some to be a loophole in current labour legislation.
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WEN Networking Event: A Conversation with Grattan CEO, Aruna Sathanapally
Event Type: Women in Economics Event
Date: Thursday Oct 24, 2024, 6:30 pm
Join the WEN New South Wales for an inspiring evening with Aruna Sathanapally, CEO of the Grattan Institute followed by a chance to network with fellow WEN members over drinks.
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Professional Development Workshop: Professional Ethics for Economists
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Oct 25, 2024, 2:00 pm
This workshop considers the basis and content of economists’ moral responsibilities, codes of ethics for economists, relationship to organisational codes of conduct, and role of the Economic Society in professional ethics.
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Carbon Pricing in the National Electricity Market
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Oct 30, 2024, 12:15 pm
The Australian Energy Regulator has recently released guidance on the cost to attach to carbon emissions in the evaluation of energy investments. This seminar will provide an overview of the issues and explain the AER's approach.
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WEN Mentoring Retreat 2024
Date: Wednesday Nov 6, 2024, 12:00 am
The Women in Economics Network, part of the Economics Society of Australia, is hosting the 2024 Women in Economics Retreat as an in-person event, to be held from Wednesday 6 to Friday 8 November at The Hilton, Surfers Paradise, Queensland.
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Labour Market Outcomes of Graduates in Economics in Australia - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Nov 6, 2024, 12:00 pm
The discipline of economics encompasses broad skill-sets with diverse applications in employment markets and industries. Studies of labour market prospects for economics graduates are relatively dated particularly in the light of developments such as declining interest in economics in high school and university. Join the discussion with our guest speaker, Professor Ian Li, Curtin University.
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Eminent Speaker Series: Susan Athey - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Friday Nov 8, 2024, 12:00 pm
NEW TIME - NOW FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER AT 12.00PM AEDT (SYD/CBR/MEL)
Identifying Challenges and Improving Outcomes for Labor Market Transitions Using Machine Learning
This talk will review several recent papers that focus on labor market transitions. The first project analyzes worker resilience in response to layoffs, using administrative data from Sweden.
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WEN Credible Economist Writing Competition - ONLINE ONLY
Event Type: Women in Economics Event
Date: Friday Nov 15, 2024, 11:59 pm
The Women in Economics Network was created to promote and support the careers of female economists in Australia. As part of this, the Credible Economist blog series promotes public contributions by female economists and on the topic of gender economics.
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Call for Papers: 32nd Colloquium on Pensions and Retirement research
Event Type: External Event
Date: Wednesday Nov 27, 2024, 8:30 am
The Call for Papers is now open for the 32nd Colloquium on Pensions and Retirement research. Call for Papers deadline: 19 August.
The 32nd Colloquium on Pensions and Retirement Research will be held at UNSW Sydney in Australia on 27-28 November 2024. The Colloquium will include an online session sponsored by the International Pension Research Association (IPRA) on 3 December 2024.
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Introduction to Cost Benefit Analysis (NSW Workshop)
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Nov 28, 2024, 8:15 am
Introduction to Cost Benefit Analysis is an in-person one-day course that provides a grounding in CBA principles and tools for anyone writing, reading, reviewing, or commissioning CBAs.
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UNSW Economics Summer School
Event Type: External Event
Date: Monday Dec 9, 2024, 8:30 am
The UNSW Sydney Summer School offers two courses: (i) Empirical Methods for Causal Inference and (ii) Expectations in Macroeconomics.
These intensive graduate-level courses are aimed at students, researchers and professionals and provide a combination of lectures and practical examples and tools. Taught by world-leading experts in the respective fields, our courses will bring participants to the current frontier in economic research.
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WEN-NSW Coffee Roulette
Event Type: Women in Economics Event
Date: Tuesday Dec 31, 2024, 12:00 pm
We are thrilled to announce the second round of the NSW Women in Economics Network (WEN) Coffee Roulette program beginning in September 2024 — an initiative designed to strengthen connections and foster a vibrant community among women economists in NSW.
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AGEW 2025
Date: Thursday Feb 6, 2025, 12:00 am
The 8th Australian Gender Economics Workshop (#AGEW2025) is hosted by the University of Wollongong in partnership with the Women in Economics Network and is organised by Alfredo Paloyo. The workshop will take place on 6‒7 February 2025 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Wollongong is in Dharawal Country.
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