Nova School of Business and Economics is hosting the 9th Linked Employer-Employee Data (LEED) Workshop on the 26^th and 27^th June 2026.

This workshop intends to bring together scholars conducting research with this type of data and support the discussion on the role of LEED as a foundation for solid policy-oriented academic research.

We foresee great opportunities for exchange between scholars from various fields (e.g., economics, management, innovation, entrepreneurship, among others) working with this type of data on research questions that are both theoretically grounded, socially relevant, and policy actionable.

The availability of this type of data in several countries with different regulatory environments (e.g., Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Portugal, Sweden) creates additional opportunities for discussion about cross-country institutional differences. We therefore encourage researchers using LEED from different countries, including PhD students and early-career scholars, to submit a paper to the workshop.

This 9^th edition is particularly interested in the themes of productivity and inequality from a policy angle. The productivity theme reflects an area of particular interest in the new Nova SBE Public Policy Institute (Haddad Productivity Lab); the latter stems from the EQUALNovaERA Project hosted at Nova SBE.

The LEED Workshop was originally established in 2009 to celebrate the decision to make the Portuguese LEED, Quadros de Pessoal, widely accessible to the (international) academic community. Over time, the workshop has attracted an increasingly diversified audience around the world.