The workshop will focus on the realities of Asian societies in terms of ongoing changes in labour market transitions and, more generally, over the life course. It is open to all and has as its overall objective to exchange knowledge and build capacity on policy design for managing transitions in...

How important is a relationship with a bank to a firm’s performance and survival? If firms can easily switch among different sources of credit supply, then the loss of any one source may have little implication for the firms that have borrowed from that source. However, to the extent that...

Topics: - Unemployment, labor supply and labor demand; - Inequality, poverty and discrimination; - Evaluation of labor market institutions and policies; - Wages and productivity; - Occupations; - Education, qualification and job tasks; - Gender and family; - Migration and international labor...

Topics to be discussed include but are not limited to: - Empirical behavior of gross and net flows and the labor market stocks; - Flows of workers versus jobs; - Cross-country relationships between labor flows and macroeconomic variables; - The role of labor market policies for labor market...

The FSC Research Workshop 2021 will be held on 19 November in conjunction with the Financial Stability Conference (FSC) as an online event. The workshop discusses relevant aspects in the context of corona crisis, climate change risks and crisis management. The challenge is to give a brief and...

The conference brings together leading economic scholars and policy practitioners to discuss cutting-edge research addressing Europe’s economic policy challenges. It is jointly organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs and the Joint...

Topics : - Gender norms, institutions and labour market outcomes; - Family formation and dynamics; - Female labour force participation; - Women's economic, social, and political empowerment. Due to the current situation, the conference is designed exclusively as an online workshop, taking place...

Program: Panel 1: Keynote: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Labor Migrants: Accentuation of Inequalities. Panel 2: What Makes a Politician an Expert on Colonial Labor? The ILO and the Concept of ‘Native Labor’. Panel 3: Debates on "Trafficking in Persons and Slavery" in Cameroon. Panel...

This fourth IZA/Higher School of Economics workshop will bring together labor economists who are working on labor market adjustment in the post-Soviet states that emerged from the breakup of the Soviet Union, post-transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as China. We will...

After years of subdued inflation, prices have increased sharply on a broad base in recent months on the back of several temporary factors, not only in Europe. Soaring prices at early stages of the production chain indicate additional price pressure in the pipeline, whereas supply bottlenecks,...