About iwplms

The International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation is an annual international meeting of experts specialized in labour market segmentation approach. It is coordinated by an International Steering Committee. Each year the papers are built around a central axis proposed to the participants of the meeting as a guide for submitting projects. The theme of the next annual meeting that will be held in Valencia is "National Models of employment and economic, environmental and social sustainability"

Our organisation

The responsible organizers of the IWPLS conference in Valencia 2010 are the Department of Applied Economics and the Department of Sociology of the University of Valencia

The Members of the Steering Committee of the IWPLMS are:

Jill Rubery (Manchester Business School)
Gerhard Bosch (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Peter Brosnan (Griffth University)
Iain Cambell (RMIT University)
Pilar Gonzales (University of Porto)
Albert Recio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Francois Michon (IRES, Paris)
Maria Karamessini (University of Panteion)
Pertti Koistinen (Tampere University)
Paola Villa (University of Trento)
Philippe Mehaut (Université de Provence Aix-Marseille)
Samuel Rosenberg (Roosevelt University)

The members of the Local Organizing Committee of the Conference are:

Josep Banyuls (Department of Applied Economics, University of Valencia)
Julio Bodí (Department of Sociology, University of Valencia)
Ernest Cano (Department of Applied Economics, University of Valencia)
Ernest García (Department of Sociology, University of Valencia)
Ignasi Lerma (Department of Sociology, University of Valencia)
Fausto Miguélez (Department of Sociology, QUIT, UAB)
Raul Lorente (Department of Sociology, University of Valencia)
Albert Recio (Department of Applied Economics, UAB)
Juana Verónica Ramirez (Department of Sociology, University of Valencia)
Amat Sánchez (Department of Applied Economics, University of Valencia)

Previous Conferences

30th Conference - Social policy as a productive factor - Tampere (Finland), 2009

29th Conference – Modernising labour market institutions: are current labour market institutions capable of meeting the needs of the twenty-first century? - Porto (Portugal), 2008.

28th Conference – Reshaping Employment Systems: Firms Unions and Individual Strategies - Aix-en-Provence (France), 2007.

27th Conference – National Patterns of Labour Market Integration and Social Exclusion over the Life Course - Växjö (Sweden), 2006.