This special issue for Labour Economics examines labour market dynamics and challenges in the context of global inequality. The collection seeks contributions that explore how inequality shapes labour market outcomes and structures across different economies and regions.

Appel publié par Labour Economics. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• January 31, 2027: Submission deadline

Natalia Vershinina, Audencia Business School

Amitabh Anand, Excelia Business School

Ivona Hideg, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Sanja Pekovic, University of Montenegro

Ivana Bulog, University of Split

Azra Bičo, International University of Sarajevo

Simona Kukovič, School of Advanced Social Studies & University of Ljubljana

The Western Balkans present a distinctive context for studying gender and work, combining labour-market gender gaps, high female inactivity, and informality with legacies of conflict and complex state-society relations. Women have played crucial roles in post-conflict recovery and civil society development, but existing global organizational theories inadequately capture these experiences and contributions.

This special issue seeks rigorous, comparative research that documents contemporary gendered labour dynamics in the region, theorizes how regional specificities—such as post-socialist transition, conflict legacies, and EU integration pressures—shape organizational practices and careers, and develops conceptual contributions relevant to global gender and organization scholarship. The issue particularly welcomes papers evaluating policy effectiveness and linking local practices to international regimes.

Appel publié par Gender Work and Organization. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Gendered labour markets, informality, care work, and self-employment in the Balkans
• Gender pay inequality and organizational stratification
• Gendered leadership, management, and corporate governance
• Policy, Europeanization, and institutional change affecting gender equality
• Flexible work, gig economy, and new forms of gendered work
• Gender norms, education, and reproduction of inequality
• Patriarchy, religion, and gendered organizational cultures
• Urbanization, space, and gendered work practices

Timeline

• December 1, 2026: Submission deadline

David Morris, University of Nottingham

Carlo Corradini, University of Reading

Lisa De Propris, University of Birmingham

Duygu Buyukyazici, London School of Economics and Political Science

Appel publié par Regional Studies. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• The nature and dynamics of regional skills formation and transformation due to technological change (skills creation, resilience, obsolescence, disappearance)
• The links between education, skills transformation and job dynamics in the green and digital transitions of regional economies
• The drivers and barriers of a regional skills transition for the innovation, growth and resilience of regional economies
• The regional skill mismatch and skill formation in new labour spaces, e.g. green jobs, remote working, new platformised digital industries, gig economy
• The enablers and barriers of a regional skills transformation for the green and digital transitions of industrial clusters and regional economies
• Regional skills transformation and mismatch within shifting regional labour markets
• Regional skills transformation and mismatch in regions as open economies: skills mobility, remote skills and migration
• The opportunities and constraints of stranded and stressed regions: left-behindedness, regional low-skill traps, transitioning carbon-intensive regions
• The links between vocational education, lifelong training and on-the-job upskilling and regional skills transition in the context of technological change
• The opportunities and constraints of regional skills transition in emerging and developing economies
• Policy debates and policy experiences to address the regional dimension of skill mismatch, skill formation and skill transition for just and inclusive growth

Timeline

• June 12, 2026: Abstract deadline
• September 25, 2026: Manuscript deadline