Call for Papers for EACES Workshop “Human Capital in Cities: A Comparative Perspective” May 20, 2016 at HSE University - St. Petersburg

The Workshop is going to take place during the Annual Conference “Education and Global Cities: Horizons for Contemporary Universities”, hosted by HSE University - St. Petersburg on May 19-21, 2016.

Professor Vladimir Gimpelson from HSE Center for Labor Studies is invited to EACES workshop as keynote speaker.

We welcome original research papers broadly related to the interconnections between human capital and urban/regional development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• spatial distribution of human capital and skills
• spillover effects of human capital stock
• regional heterogeneity in return to education
• local labour market and human capital accumulation
• labor market and qualification mismatch
• young people, labor markets and student mobility
• local community and earnings inequality
• Institutions, ethnic diversities and regional disparities

To participate in the workshop, one can submit an extended abstract or preliminary paper to Mrs. Anna Fedyunina (afedyunina@hse.ru) no later than February 25^th, 2016. Authors will be informed about the selection by March 1^st, 2016. The authors of accepted proposals are expected to submit full papers by April 22^th.

The Selection Committee will include:

• Andrei Yakovlev (Higher School of Economics)
• Marcello Signorelli (University of Perugia)
• Vladimir Gimpelson (Higher School of Economics)
• Olga Demidova (Higher School of Economics)

According to the QS World University Ranking 2015, the Higher School of Economics ranks among the world’s top 200 universities for economics, philosophy and sociology, and within the top 100 for development studies. Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg is a globally oriented university, one of four network campuses of the Higher School of Economics with more than 3300 students and around 100 research fellows holding PhD degrees of leading world universities (see key facts and figures at http://hse.ru/lingua/en/figures/ ).

The 3^rd 2016 annual conference “Education and Global Cities: Horizons for Contemporary Universities” will focus on the challenges and opportunities for a research university in the 21st century. 

The key discussion questions are:

• The challenges and opportunities for a contemporary university and a search for a strategy, considering the existence of the multiple missions
• University development: is there an alternative to rankings?
• Universities in the regional development context: on the way to the Fourth university mission
• The search for interdisciplinary balance: to the new role of the Social, Economic Sciences and Humanities
• Universities, human resources, labor markets and professional qualifications
• Effective collaboration in the “Knowledge Triangle”: theory and practice

For further information on submission please contact Mrs. Anna Fedyunina afedyunina@hse.ru