Plenary Session 1
Risk attitudes, informal employment and wages: Evidence from a transition country. Hartmut Lehmann

Plenary Session 2
Social preferences and migration outcomes. Oded Stark

Parallel Session A1: Links between economic development and migration

• Links between rural economic development and migration in Kazakhstan. Gulaikhan Kubayeva
• Linking agriculture and rural tourism in the Greater Caucasus of Georgia – A qualitative study in the Kazbegi region. Sarah Hueller, Jennifer Heiny, Ingrid-Ute Leonhaeuser
• Evaluating an Information Campaign about Rural Development Policies in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Martin Huber, Ana Kotevska, Aleksandra Martinovska-Stojcheska, Anna Solovyeva

Parallel Session B1: Challenges in sending and receiving communities

• Internal migration in Kazakhstan: Insights based on a New Institutionalism Approach. David Runschke, Thomas Dufhues, Gertrud Buchenrieder, Thomas Herzfeld
• Refugees and rural Development: Chances from migration and challenges of integration. Kim Pollermann
• Refugees in rural Europe – potentials for the local labour market? Birte Nienaber

Parallel Session C1: The effects of migration on rural households

• Effect of Parental Migration on the Academic Performance of Left- behind Children in Northwestern China. Yu Bai, Linxiu Zhang, Chengfang Liu, Yaojiang Shi, Di Mo, Scott Rozelle
• Labor force participation of women left behind in Tajikistan. Sophia Kan
• Determinants of unemployment of rural population in Poland. Dorota Kmieć

Parallel Session A2: Structural change and migration

• Reforms that keep you home: Migration in Transition Economies. Stepan Mikula, Martin Guzi
• Estimating the impacts of migration and remittances on household income distribution and poverty: Evidence from rural Kosovo. Arjola Arapi-GJini, Judith Möllers, Thomas Herzfeld
• Agricultural Transformation and Decent Rural Employment in Chinese Maize/Beef Sector: Role of trade/food policies and institutional development. Cheng Fang

Parallel Session B2: Occupational choices and incentives for migration

• If you call them will they come? Emigration intentions among Eastern European skilled farmers. Diana Traikova
• Transition from post-secondary agricultural education into the labor market: Who wants to work in agriculture sector in Siberia? Miroslava Bavorová, Ilkay Unay-Gailhard, Zuzana Bednaříková, Elena V. Ponkina
• Brain Drain in Russian Agriculture? Migration Sentiments among Agriculture Graduates. Vasyl Kvartiuk

Parallel Session C2: Rural-urban links via labor market

• The Demographic and Structural-Functional Effects of Migrations in the Adjacent Area of Bucharest (Romania). Ilinca-Valentina Stoica, Daniela Zamfir, Cristian Talanga
• Commuting vs. professions of rural inhabitants? A study of Warsaw suburban area. Nina Drejerska
• Relationship Between Commuting and Community-level Social Capital: Evidence from Rural Czech Republic. Jarmila Curtiss, Judith Möllers

Parallel Session A3: Organized Session: Migration and local development

• Do Agrarian Households use International Migration as an Income Diversification Strategy? Evidence from Albania. Ayuba Seidu, Onel Gulcan
• Access to Israeli labor markets: effects on the West Bank economy. Johanes Uriel Ibidjola Agbahey, Khalid Siddig, Harald Grethe
• Do Off-farm Income and Remittances Alter Household Food Consumption Patterns? Evidence from Albania. Ayuba Seidu, Gülcan Önel (presenter)
• Migration vs Agricultural Protection for Reducing Rural Poverty: the case of Indonesia. Richard Barichello, Faisal Harahap

Parallel Session B3: Gender issues, rural economy and migration

• Labor market and women economic empowerment-The case of rural Albania. Edvin Zhllima, Elvina Merkaj, Klodjan Rama
• Sons or Daughters? Gender, Child Migration and Health of Parents Left Behind. Chuhong Wang, Jackline Wahba
• The Effects of Large-Scale Farming on Gender Equality in Rural Areas: The Case of Ukraine. Nataliia Mykolayivna Kutsmus, Taras Gagalyuk

Parallel Session C3: Political activism, community development and migration

• Position of active immigrants in the community network of active people: Case studies in North Moravia region in the Czech Republic. Marta Mrnuštík Konečná
• Social aspects of running agricultural producers’ groups in Poland. Dominika Malchar-Michalska
• Does international migration affect political opinions? Evidence from Moldova. Ruxanda Berlinschi

Plenary session 3: Organized Plenary Session: "Rural labor markets in transition economies"

• Strong versus Weak Ties in Rural to Urban Migration in China. Corrado Giulietti, Jackie Wahba, Yves Zenou
• Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector: How Global Commodity Prices (Don’t) Transmit to the Poor – Evidence from Tajikistan. Alexander Danzer, Robert Grundke
• Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills and Labor Market Performance in Rural Ukraine. Sinem Ayhan, Ksenia Gatskova, Hartmut Lehmann (presenter)
• Stalled Structural Transformation and Missing Labor Markets in the Republic of Georgia. Adam Pelillo, Norberto Pignatti (presenter)

Parallel session A4: Organized Session by Rural Policy Learning Commons (RPLC): "Labor mobilities and rural development: What lessons can we learn?"

• The Impact of Emigration on Structural changes in Serbian Agriculture. Natalija Bogdanov, Marija Babović
• Remittances and agricultural change: On-farm investments of Moldovan migrants. Simone Piras, Matteo Vittuari, Judith Moellers, Thomas Herzfeld
• Reconciling Labour mobility and  cohesion policies in relation  rural areas of  the European Union. Philomena De Lima

Parallel session B4: Effects of remittances

• Labour migrants remittances induced an exchange rate changes effects on the agricultural sector of Tajikistan. Parviz Khakimov
• The impact of international migration and remittances on crop production and rural income in the Kyrgyz Republic. Eliza Zhunusova
• Remittances and Labour Supply in Kyrgyzstan. Simone Angioloni, Glenn Ames, Zarylbek Kudabaev

Parallel session C4: Mobility barriers, rural development and employment

• Can land transfer through land cooperatives foster off-farm employment in China? Ziming Liu, Jens Rommel, Shuyi Feng
• Determinants of land-use decision-making in rural Sichuan, China. Kristin Leimer, Daniel Müller, Zhanli Sun
• An Analysis of Intersectoral Labor Market Transitions in Turkey. Elif Oznur Acar, Burak Gunalp, Seyit Mumin Cilasun

Parallel session A5: Large-scale farming, labor markets and structural change

• Labour Market Effects of Large-Scale Agricultural Investments. Martin Ostermeier, Kerstin Nolte
• The Effects of Gender Composition and Board Diversity on Corporate Social Responsibility of Ukrainian Agroholdings. Taras Gagalyuk, Nataliia Kutsmus, Igor Ostapchuk
• Incentive provision to corporate farm workers in post-socialist settings. Martin Petrick

Parallel session B5: Diversification of rural economies

• Farm diversification in Albania – has it a potential to reduce rural unemployment? Edvin Zhllima, Drini Imami, Judith Möllers, Thomas Wehinger, Dmitry Zvyagintsev
• Transformation of the Occupational Structure in Rural India during 1990-2010. Aparajita Dhara
• Rural Non-farm Sector, Agricultural Self-employment and Wage Employment: The Implications for Income and Risk in Ethiopia. Habtamu Ayenew, Johannes Sauer, Getachew Abate-Kassa

Parallel session C5: Institutions in structural change

• Confucian Ethic and China's Rise. Fang Deng
• Self-Sufficiency and other Considerations in the Management of Household Labor and Migration in Rural Moldova. Jennifer R. Cash
• Subsistence farming, farmland sales and foreign farmland investments in Romania. Anna Hajdu, Oane Visser

Parallel session A6: Organized Session: "Mobilities and informal economies: Markets and flows in comparison"

• In a “half-dark, half-light zone”: Mobility, precarity and moral uncertainty in post-reform Vietnam’s urban waste economy. Minh Nguyen
• We are all displaced’ - Internally displaced and rural migrants at Deserter’s Bazaar in Tbilisi, Georgia. Lela Rekhviashvili
• Muddling through Central Asia and Russia: mobile enterprenuers from Central Asia. Rano Turaeva
• Informal economy writ large and small: From Azerbaijani traders of fresh herbs to shop owners in Moscow. Lale Yalcin-Heckmann

Parallel session B6: Innovations in stimulating rural economic activity

• Agricultural expertise & knowledge on wine, tea and fruits in Post-Soviet rural development in Georgia. Anastasiya Shtaltovna, Kristof Van Assche, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Lena Fey
• Development of Rural Entrepreneurship and Its Impact on Rural Employment in Ukraine. Larysa Levkivska, Oleg Skydan
• Social situation of youth as indicator for implementation of innovation in Altai Krai, Russia. Andreas Wust, Alie Sergienko, Nikolaj Bykov

Parallel session C6: Agricultural productivity in different contexts

• Total factor productivity analysis in Kosovo agriculture. Iliriana Miftari, Nedka Ivanova, Dmitry Zvyagintsev, Ekrem Gjokaj, Muje Gjonbalaj
• Structural Change and Productivity Growth in BRIC Economies. Jagannath Mallick
• Decent rural employment in different farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Lena Schickramm, Elisenda Estruch, Johannes Sauer, Getachew Abate-Kassa, Habtamu Y. Ayenew, Peter Wobst

Plenary session 4: Keynote addresses

• The Policy Challenges of Informal Employment in The Transition Economies of Eastern Europe. Johannes Koettl
• Challenges of Rural Labour Markets to Agricultural and Rural Development - FAO Strategic Planning on Decent Rural Employment. Cheng Fang