Article archive for May, 2006

40th Annual Meeting of the CEA

May 26th, 2006

The 40th Annual Meeting of the CEA will take place from Friday, May 26 – Sunday, May 28, 2006 at Concordia University, Montréal, Québec. [More »]

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Call for Papers: 2006 Research Data Center Conference

May 23rd, 2006

The Census Research Data Center Program welcomes proposals to present papers based on current or recent projects carried out in a Research Data Center or using confidential Census Bureau data. Graduate students are encouraged to apply. The 2006 Research Data Center Conference will be held September 14, 2006 at Baruch College in New York City and is hosted by the New York Census Research Data Center Consortium.
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SAS updated to SP4 on VRDC nodes

May 13th, 2006

We’ve updated SAS to Service Pack 4 (SP4). Please let us know if you encounter any problems.

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Conference on Education, Training and the Evolving Workplace

May 12th, 2006
May 12-13 2006
Vancouver, BC, Canada

From the Call For Papers:
“As competitive pressures from globalization and technological change continue to challenge our economy, it is of great importance to understand the impact of these changes for education and training policies, as well as the role of firms in this evolving environment. Perspectives taking a longer historical view are also welcome.

Proposals on these and related issues are invited, such as:

  • Public policies for education and training
  • Education and training: worker/firm outcomes
  • Wage determination: workers and the workplace
  • Workplace practices: evolution and performance
  • Working time/schedules and hours constraints
  • Computer/internet use in school/on the job
  • Work-life balance issues and policies
  • Education and health
  • Older workers, training and the evolving workplace

Keynote speakers: David Card, UC-Berkeley and Kathryn Shaw, Stanford University
Proposals were due November 30th, 2005.

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NSF01: aML 2.09 installed

May 11th, 2006

aML is now available on NSF01. [More »]

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SOLE Eleventh Annual Meetings

May 5th, 2006

SOLE meets in Cambridge, MA on May 5-6, 2006 at the Royal Sonesta hotel. More information is available at http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/labor/2006.htm

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