Call For Papers Special Issue of Open Economies Review on Global Labor Markets Open Economies Review will publish a special issue during 2017 devoted to analysis of labor markets in advanced countries, emerging markets, and low-income countries. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2016. Only completed papers will be considered and they should be sent to OERSPECIALISSUE@imf.org TOPICS: The issue will be edited by Nauro Campos (Brunel University), Karim El Aynaoui (OCP Policy Center) and Prakash Loungani (IMF). The editors are particularly interested in these topics: - Links between jobs, growth and productivity in the short-run and long-run; - Analysis of trends in labor mobility within and across countries; - Labor market issues in economic unions; - Impact on macroeconomic policies (monetary; fiscal; financial) on labor markets; - Impact of structural policies on growth and jobs; - Impact of labor market institutions and policies in advanced and developing countries; - Evidence on the economic and social costs of unemployment. Papers comparing advanced and developing country labor markets, and papers devoted to analysis of labor markets in low-income countries, are particularly welcome. ABOUT THE JOURNAL: Open Economies Review (http://www.springer.com/ economics/international+ economics/journal/11079) features theoretical and empirical studies examining international economic issues or national economic issues with transnational relevance. The journal has a five-year impact factor of 0.82. The editor-in-chief is George S. Tavlas (Bank of Greece). ABOUT THE GUEST EDITORS: - Nauro Campos is Professor of Economics and Finance at Brunel University London, a Research Professor at ETH ZUrich and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). He is the co-author, with Jeff Nugent, of a major study on the impacts of labor market regulations on growth and inequality, and he has edited a special issue of Economic Systems. - Karim El Aynaoui is Managing Director of OCP Policy Center, a global think tank headquartered in Rabat. Previously, he was Director of Economics at Bank Al-Maghrib (the central bank of Morocco) and an economist at the World Bank. He is the author of a book on growth strategies for Morocco and the guest editor of a special issue of Oxford Economic Papers. - Prakash Loungani is Chief of Development Macroeconomics in the IMF's Research Department. During 2010-15 he co-chaired the IMF's group on Jobs and Growth. He has edited special issues of the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the International Journal of Forecasting.