14th Young Economists Conference - October 2nd and 3rd, 2025 in Linz
Please note that all schedules on this website are preliminary and may be changed if necessary. If you have any questions, please contact yec@akwien.at
14th Young Economists Conference
The Chamber of Labor Vienna and the Chamber of Labor Upper Austria will host the 14th Young Economists Conference on October 2nd and 3rd, 2025 at the Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof of AK Oberösterreich, Römerstraße 98, 4020 Linz.
We are pleased to offer two keynote speeches in English that are open to the public. Both provide valuable insights into global economic and environmental issues:
- 2. October 2025, 18:30 - 20:00 Uhr, “International Monetary and Financial Subordination” — Annina Kaltenbrunner
Explore how emerging and developing economies are affected by international financial and monetary dependencies, and what it means for sovereign policy-space, global finance, and economic justice.
Register here: International Monetary and Financial Subordination - 3. October 2025, 14:30 - 16:00 Uhr, “Socio-Ecological Transformation: Still a Blind Spot in Economics” — Stephan Puehringer
A keynote examining why socio-ecological factors (e.g. environmental sustainability, ecological limits) are often underrepresented in mainstream economic theory and policy, and what changes are needed for a more holistic framework.
Register here: Socio-Ecological Transformation Still a Blind Spot in Economics
There will be a pre-conference on feminist economics by Doris Weichselbaumer and Jana Schultheiß. Please register by September 20 via yec@akwien.at.
We connect researchers in the early stages of their career (Master, pre- or post-doc) from all professions, especially economics, political sciences and sociology. The conference language is English. Please send your presentation slides in PDF format to yec@akwien.at before Monday, September 29, 2025. The conference is free of charge, presenters will be reimbursed for train travel cost within Austria, accommodations are paid for. An outstanding contribution will be awarded the Eduard März Prize of €1,000.
Program
| Thursday October 2 | ||
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| Timetable | ||
| 10:00-11:30 Pre Conference Room: Freiraum | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Snacks & Registration | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 Opening Room: Weitblick 2 | ||
| 12:30 - 12:45 Break | ||
| 12:45 - 14:45 Sessions 1 | ||
| Labour 1 Chair: Judith Derndorfer Room: Weitblick 2 | Ecological I Chair: Stephan Pühringer Room: Schubertsaal | Social Policy Chair: Ruth Kreuz Room: Freiraum |
| Fidrmuc Elisabeth: The Role of Vacancy Posting and Unemployed Hiring in Start-up Success | Diex Lukas: Empirics of Green Offshore Finance | Höfle Paul: Elderly flat shares and institutions shaping elderly (co-)living in Vienna |
| Mölzer Wiltrud: When Jobs Were Brokered: Private Job Agencies and the Rise of Public Labor Institutions in 19th-Century Austria | Huth Emil: Global Climate Justice and Central Bank Collateral Frameworks | Reis Filipa: From Invisible to Indispensable: Queer, Black, Migrant Care and Collective Resistance in Vienna |
| Neuhuber Tatjana: The Care Divide: Childcare Infrastructure and the Social Inequalities in Balancing Work and Care | Prinz Nicolas: Rethinking Climate Responsibility: Ownership-Based Emissions in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, and the Netherlands | Rubel Freya: The Dust Bowl Generation: New Evidence on the Impacts of Childhood Drought Exposure |
| Dammerer Quirin: The employment effects of working time reductions - a meta regression analysis | Maad Magdalena: Gender in a Socio-Ecological Transition – Towards a Feminist Macroeconomic Model | |
| 14:45 - 15:00 Break | ||
| 15:00 - 16:30 Sessions 2 | ||
| Feminist Chair: Tamara Premrov Room: Weitblick 2 | Macroeconomics I Chair: Roman Raab Room: Schubertsaal | Money & Political Economy Chair: Patrick Mokre Room: Freiraum |
| Vandorou Lida: Women's labor force participation, labor informality and Guaranteed Minimum Income | Riha Katharina & Niklas Kirsamer: Beyond Ideal Point Distances – A Framework for Measuring Bilateral Geopolitical Fragmentation and Bloc Formation | Gradinger Verena: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt |
| Putra Hari: Excluded by Design? Gendered and Spatial Inequalities in Access to Employment Injury Security among Indonesia’s Informal Workers | Maukner Julian: Competitiveness - a contested concept? Insights for the European economic policy discourse | Gschwandtner Jakob: Monetary Capitalism: Surprising Parallels between Austrian and Marxist Economics |
| Zettler David: Protective Pension Provisions and the Risk of Old-Age Poverty Among Women | Hager Theresa & Hornykewycz Anna: Barriers to SET in the Face of Structural Global Inequalities | Kusmenko Ines: Reassessing the Wealth Channel of Monetary Policy: A Comparative Study of Austria and Europe |
| 16:30 - 16:45 Break | ||
| 16:45 - 18:15 Sessions 3 | ||
| INEQ Panel Chair: Clara Himmelbauer Room: Weitblick 2 | Momentum Panel Chair: Miriam Frauenlob Room: Schubertsaal | |
| Himmelbauer Clara: Who Cares? Social Class and the Outsourcing of Childcare in Austria | Frauenlob Miriam: Decomposing the Decline of the Labor Share in Austria: A LMDI Decomposition across Sectors and within Manufacturing, 1980-2019 | |
| Christoph Walch:Keeping-up effects in the borrowing behavior of US-households | Steinmaßl Paul: The Effectiveness of Environmental Policies in Reducing Population Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter | |
| Stehle Matthias: The decline in union membership in Austria | Geyer Niklas: Main drivers of inflation: Evidence for Austria | |
| 18:15 - 18:30 Break | ||
| 18:30 - 20:00 Keynote Annina Kaltenbrunner Room: Weitblick 2 | ||
| 20:00 - 21.30 Dinner Room: Restaurant Jägermayrhof | ||
| Friday October 3 | ||
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| Timetable | ||
| 08:45 - 09:00 Arrival | ||
| 09:00 - 11:00 Sessions 4 | ||
| Technological Change Chair: Stella Zilian Room: Weitblick 2 | Ecological II Chair: Magdalena Maad Room: Schubertsaal | Inequality Chair: Clara Himmelbauer Room: Freiraum |
| Ferschli Benjamin: Automated Inefficiency: Contradictions of Technological and Economic Rationalities of Automation in the Automotive Industry | Lukas Cserjan: Economic Effects of a Railway Extension in Austria: An expanded Input-Output Approach | Olbrich Hannah: Networks of Tunnels: Localised Perceptions and Tolerance for Inequality |
| Gerstner Isabel: Ageing Labour, Technological Change, and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Austrian Registry Data | Eder Julia: Producing the mobility transition: opportunities and challenges for the Austrian railway industry from a global production network perspective | Hartmann Marie: “I don’t see anything positive or neutral in it” - Adolescents’ Lived Experiences, Perceptions and Understandings of Inequality |
| Ferstl Florian: Contested Hydrogen Policies. A historical-materialist policy analysis of Argentina’s National Hydrogen Strategy | Pointecker Jannik: The Economic Impact of Urban Rapid Transit Systems: The Vienna Metro Extension | Dreyer Su-Mari : Unmasking the Rainbow: Exploring B-BBEE Compliance and Washing Phenomena in South African Listed Companies |
| Pilatowicz Caroline : Nobody Asks Us - Worker Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Transformation in Austria’s Manufacturing Industry | Freiberger Michael: Should I stay or should I go: Modelling disaster risk behaviour using a dynamic household level approach | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 Break | ||
| 11:15 - 12:45 Sessions 5 | ||
| Labour II Chair: Patrick Mokre Room: Weitblick 2 | Economic Policy Chair: Judith Derndorfer Room: Schubertsaal | Macroeconomics II Chair: Eva Six Room: Freiraum |
| Anderson Dash: The Valuation of Rural Labour Power: Towards a Heterodox Theory of Rural Wage Determination | Garstenauer Viola : Somewhere in Between? Cohabiting Couples, and Their Role in Tax Policy | Reimer Friederike: A Violent Sunset? Conflict Inflation in the Green Transformation |
| Mayrhofer Theresa: Revolution at Home: The Impact of Work From Home on Wage Dynamics | Fitter Jonathan: Intertemporal Price Discrimination and Waste Reduction | Schnirzer Simon: Inflation Potential of the EU Emission Trading System in Poland |
| Nagamine Karin: Wage Gap Disclosure and Its Impact on Firms and Workers: Evidence from Japan’s Financial Reports and Labor Panel Survey | Baumgartinger Florian: Social housing and housing cost development: An analysis of the Viennese rental housing market | Dicleli Samet: Carbon Pricing and Geopolitical Shocks: Emissions Responses of European Power Plants (2021–2024) |
| 12:45-13:15 Meeting YEC Scientific Board Room: Freiraum | ||
| 12:45 - 14:15 Lunch Room: Restaurant Jägermayrhof | ||
| 14:15 - 14:30 Eduard März Award Room: Weitblick 2 | ||
| 14:30 - 16:00 Keynote Stephan Pühringer Room: Weitblick 2 | ||
