Program: - "Countercyclical Congestion"; - "The Real Wages of Newly Hired Workers over the Business Cycle: When the Difference between Worker Flows from Unemployment and Out-of-Labor Force Matters"; - "The Dynamics of Job Search in Unemployment"; - "Minimum Wages in Concentrated Labor...

Theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome. Topics: - changes in wage, price and output dynamics and correlations over the business cycle - impact of medium-run macro and financial trends on the natural rate of interest and the output gap hysteresis effects and implications for monetary...

The aim of this workshop is to bring together senior and junior researchers to present and discuss original research examining the link between health and the labor market. Topics: - Health and labor market outcomes - Determinants of sickness absence - Health insurance and the labor market -...

Topics of the workshop: - Measurement of preferences and personality traits using survey instruments and experiments - Malleability of preferences and personality traits, and their rank order stability - Preferences and personality traits as driving factors of selection into labor market states...

The aim of the conference is to discuss new modeling approaches and novel empirical evidence on heterogeneity in the behaviour of firms, households and financial intermediaries, and on policies aimed to address economic challenges arising in specific markets, regions or group of agents but...

Topics: - Tax/benefit policies and labor supply, employment - Fiscal integration in the EU and its effects on EU labor markets - National unemployment insurance (UI) policies and perspectives of EU-wide UI-provision - The interactions of fiscal policies with nominal and real rigidities - The...

In this panel, we will discuss: - to what extent entrepreneurs are able to substantially influence economic development and wealth creation in an economy; - to what extent the regulatory environment in developed and developing economies explains the differences in outcomes, or whether other...

Topics: - The tradeoff between the speed of fiscal consolidation and the strength of anti-cyclical policy in the current macroeconomic environment and in general, - The roles played by different fiscal policy instruments, - The effects of anti-cyclical policy in theory and in practice, -...

The Institute of Employment Research (IAB) and the Deutsche Bundesbank hold a joint conference on the problems of the labour market performance during the crisis in Europe and also the U.S. Of specific (but not exclusive) interest are submissions on - The role of labor mobility for Euro Area...

This conference will focus on empirical and theoretical contributions providing an assessment of various issues related to inflation developments, offering new perspectives on structural analysis, forecasting and economic policy design and assessment. Possible topics include: - Heterogeneity of...