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3rd Workshop on Wealth Inequality, Economic Mobility and Labor Markets

November 19 - 20, 2026

The Research Institute Economics of Inequality at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Franziska Disslbacher), the UCL Social Research Institute (Per Engzell) and the KOF Economic Institute at the ETH Zürich (Isabel Z. Martínez), are delighted to announce the 3rd Workshop on Wealth Inequality, Economic Mobility and Labor Markets.

Keynotes

We are delighted to announce two Keynotes as part of the Workshop that are open to the public and will be delivered by Emily Nix (University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business) and Nathan Wilmers(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management):

Intergenerational Transmission Beyond Income: Crime and Norms

Keynote Speakers

Emily Nix Picture

Emily Nix

Emily Nix is an Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics at USC's Marshall School of Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is an economist studying how violence, power, and inequality shape people's lives, and what can be done to change them. 

Nathan Wilmers Picture

Nathan Wilmers

Nathan Wilmers is the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and a Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Wilmers researches wage and earnings inequality, economic sociology, and the sociology of labor. His empirical work focuses on how differences between organizations affect outcomes for workers.

Scientific Organizers

Portrait Franziska Disslbacher

Franziska Disslbacher

(WU - Vienna University of Business and Economics)

Portrait of Per Engzell

Per Engzell

(UCL)

Portrait Isabel Z. Martínez

Isabel Z. Martínez

(KOF Economic Institute, ETH)

Scientific Comittee

  • Lieke Beekers (Leiden University)

  • Enea Baselgia (KOF Institut)

  • Joshua Choper (UCL)

  • Valentina Consiglio (University of Zurich)

  • Ginevra Floridi (University of Edinburgh)

  • Andrei Gorshkov (IFAU)

  • Jan Gromadzki (Vienna University of Economics & Business)

  • Anja Gschwend (ETH Zurich)

  • Ben Jann (University of Bern)

  • Markus Jäntti (SOFI, Stockholm University)

  • Lukas Lehner (University of Edinburgh)

  • Clara Martínez-Toledano (Imperial College London)

  • Salvatore Morelli (University of Roma Tre)

  • Katy Morris (SOFI, Stockholm University)

  • Lorenzo Navarini (University of Vienna)

  • Petra Sauer (University of Fribourg)

  • Anna Schwarz (Vienna University of Economics & Business)

  • Jan Stuhler (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

  • Nhat An Trinh (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)

  • Linda Wu (UBC and Michigan)

  • Elisabeth Wurm (Central European University)

Contact

ineqws_26@wu.ac.at


Venue

WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Welthandelsplatz 1
1020 Vienna

Organized and funded by: