Systems innovation is a horizontal policy approach that mobilises technology, market mechanisms, regulations and social innovations to solve complex societal problems in a set of interacting or interdependent components. They are characterised by disrupting or complementary types of knowledge...

Les objectifs de cette conférence qui réunit des académiques et des représentants d’institutions internationales ou de banque centrale sont : - Examiner l’importance et les conséquences des institutions du marché du travail - Présenter l’enquête sur les salaires du réseau WDN et...

With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations in September 2015, a new set of objectives for global sustainable development will guide the global development agenda. Due to the universal acceptance and the integration into national goals, the SDGs provide a...

STREAMS: - Eldercare - Innovative activities undertaken by older persons - Occupational health system in supporting healthy living and active aging - Work-Life Balance - Challenges for modern social policy, taking into account the standards of quality of life - Organizing social innovation –...

The theme is ‘Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management’, reflecting the key challenges for future in manufacturing and service sector with the particular goal to assess the real costs involved in many supply chains that today still remain invisible and therefore prohibit the...

The IZA/OECD Employment Seminar brings together academic experts and policy makers to discuss issues of current importance in European labour markets. We would welcome empirical contributions to this seminar on the short- and medium-term impacts of labour market reforms – especially those...

Conference issues: - The comparison of the effects of pension reforms introduced in various countries in relation to the ongoing process of demographic aging. - Pension schemes against the transformations of the labor market. - The impact of migration processes on pension schemes. - Financial,...

Program: - Jochen Kluve (Humboldt University Berlin, RWI and IZA) "Youth Labor Market Interventions" - Werner Eichhorst (IZA) "Does Vocational Training Help Young People Find a (Good) Job?" - Robert I. Lerman (Urban Institute and IZA) "Do Firms Benefit from Apprenticeship Investments?"

This course will introduce the main methods of microsimulation, with an emphasis on the practical development of policy applications. The course will explore basic techniques in static microsimulation for use in the distributional analysis across representative samples of economic agents – for...

The general topic of the symposium is "Retirement and Asset Management". Papers submitted to the symposium can address related aspects such as the role of financial institutions, lifetime investment strategies, saving for future generations, the role of demographics, or financial literacy,...