Development and the Organisation of Labour

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In this lecture, Professor Oriana Bandiera will describe how the nature of jobs and their allocation changes over the course of economic development. The lecture will explore themes including the two-way link between wealth inequality and the allocation of talent, causes and consequences of gendered jobs and how the (mis)allocation of labour links the wealth of people to the wealth of nations.

Speaker: Professor Oriana Bandiera FBA, London School of Economics

Oriana Bandiera is the Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and an honorary foreign member of the American Economic Association, a Fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).  She is director of the Hub for Equal Representation at the LSE and of the Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries (G²LM|LIC) programme at IZA.  She serves on the council of the Econometric Society, on board of the International Growth Centre and of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. Her research has been awarded the IZA Young Labor Economist Prize (2008), the Carlo Alberto Medal (2011), the Ester Boserup Prize (2018), the Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2019), the Arrow Award (2021) and a Honorary Doctorate in Economics from the University of Munich (2021). At the LSE, she teaches the undergraduate Development Economics course, for which she won a Student Union Award in 2020.

Further information

Doors open: 17:45

Lecture and Q&A: 18:00-19:30

There will be a drinks reception after the event at 19:30.

Free, booking required.

This event will take place in person in partnership with Coventry University. If you have any questions about this event, please email [email protected].

Image: Woman farmer wearing saree, and working in fields in the harvest season and winnowing wheat grains from the chaff in traditional way (shutterstock/1396314782).