Call for Symposium and Paper Proposals: LERA@ASSA 2025, San Francisco, CA

Posted: January 9, 2024
Organization: Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA)
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2024
Submission Forms: Click Here

Labor and Employment Relations Association

Call for Symposium and Paper Proposals
LERA@ASSA
 2025 • San Francisco, CA • January 3-5, 2025 (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)

in conjunction with ASSA/AEA

Call for Proposals Flyer Download

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: April 15, 2024

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NEW TOOL FOR SESSION ORGANIZING!

FOR PAPER AUTHORSYou will have the best chance of getting accepted to the program if you organize a complete session proposal (4 papers, Chair, Discussants, etc.).

  • Using this form "Session Builder for LERA@ASSA", researchers can upload abstracts/paper files of their research here to foster symposia building prior to submitting a session proposal. 

  • Then, using the "Review Portal", logged-in LERA members can review abstracts, identify similar themes, and coordinate with each other to construct session proposals.

  • Session proposals--consisting of 4 papers, Chairs, Discussant(s)--are submitted elsewhere; details at Call for Proposals, and are due by March 15.
*** Using these tools above DOES NOT submit your paper to the program committee. For that, you will need to use the "proposal form for symposia and papers" at the bottom of this page! ***

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The LERA Program Committee seeks proposals offering original and high-quality research on employment and labor relations topics for its January meeting held in conjunction with the Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA). We welcome proposals on a broad range of issues, such as wages and inequality, labor market regulation, social insurance, economic justice, technology and work organization, workplace benefits (e.g. retirement and health insurance), and work-life balance, as well as topics of current interest or related more generally to the mission of LERA.

Proposed sessions should include a total of 7 participants with either 1 chair, 3 presenters, and 3 discussants OR 1 chair, 4 presenters, and 2 discussants. The Committee also accepts individual paper proposals, although preference is given to session submissions.

To give the program committee an understanding of the proposed panel, we request that symposia organizers provide:

  • Symposium title
  • Brief abstract describing overall theme of the session
  • Listing of session participants, their affiliations, their role in the session, and their email addresses
  • Paper titles and brief paper abstracts for all papers to be presented in the session

Membership Requirement: In order to present a paper at a LERA session, presenters must be current in their LERA membership. (Join LERA http://www.LERAweb.org/join-lera.)

Post-conference publication opportunities:

  • Presenters in LERA@ASSA can choose to submit their papers to a competition held jointly with the ILR Review. The LERA Program Committee will select up to three of the submitted papers to receive a guaranteed review by referees selected by the ILR Review. Completed papers must be submitted by January 19, 2025. Papers are eligible for consideration if based on an accepted LERA paper presented at the 2025 meeting.

  • Papers presented at the LERA@ASSA Meeting will be invited to be published in the LERA Proceedings. Visit the LERA website for complete information about our Proceedings and submission requirements.

We encourage a balance of gender, racial, institutional, geographic, and generational diversity among proposed session participants.


Program Committee - LERA@ASSA 2025 Meeting (in conjunction with ASSA/AEA)

  • Elena Falcettoni, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, Co-Chair (2023-2025)
  • Illenin Kondo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Co-Chair (2024-2026)
  • Kate Bahn, Institute for Women's Policy Research (2027)
  • Nick Bunker, Indeed Hiring Lab (2022-2025)
  • Kirsten Cornelson, University of Notre Dame (2022-2025)
  • Robynn Joyce Afi Cox, UC Riverside (2022-2025)
  • Samuel Dodini, Norwegian School of Economics (2027)
  • Paola Giuliano, UCLA (2022-2025)
  • Enrique Lopezlira, UC Berkeley ( 2027)
  • Colleen Flaherty Manchester, University of Minnesota (2022-2025)
  • Conrad Miller, Berkeley (2022-2025)
  • Peter Norlander, Loyola University Chicago (2022-2025)
  • Stephanie Rennane, RAND (2022-2025)
  • Pascual Restrepo Mesa, Boston University (2022-2025)
  • Danielle Sandler, U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies (2022-2025)
  • Brian Sloboda, U.S. Department of Labor/SIU (2022-2025)
  • Russell Weinstein, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2022-2025)
  • Tingting Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2022-2025)

Due Date: March 15, 2024
Proposal Submission Forms for Symposia and Papers