In the aftermath of the crisis, this workshop will focus on employment creation as a means of remedying the strong rises in unemployment seen in some economies. The workshop will pay particular attention to the factors behind, and pre-requisites for, the creation of high quality and high...

The workshop will focus on, but not be limited to, theoretical and empirical research in the following fields: - International perspectives on the labour market - Health and labour market outcomes - Intergenerational mobility - Macroeconomic analysis of labour markets - Labour market...

Growth and Comparative Economic Development - Oded Galor (Brown University) Structure of the Course: Day 1: - Lecture I: From Stagnation to Growth: An overview - Lecture II: The Malthusian Epoch Day 2: - Lecture I: Theories of the Demographic Transition - Lecture II: Unified Growth Theory and...

The aim of the workshop is to bring together international researchers in order to present and discuss recent empirical and theoretical contributions regarding the development and consequences of atypical employment.

PEGNet will use the occasion of its tenth anniversary to discuss the design of the necessary transformation and structural changes of developing and emerging economies towards inclusive and sustainable growth within the context of the Post-2015 Agenda. The plenary sessions will focus...

The Program Committee (see above) invites submissions for a maximum of 20 presentations from academic researchers doing program evaluation research on policy issues related to the labor market. Papers that include innovative approaches, structural modeling or methodological contributions are of...

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses selected empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

The Summer School in Labor Market Research, organized by the DFG Priority Programme 1764 "The German Labor Market in a Globalized World: Challenges through Trade, Technology, and Demographics", aims to bring together PhD students, junior researchers, and renowned international researchers to...

Topics: - The Making of Civil Society in Africa - Civil Society and Democratic Governance in Africa - Civil Society and the Challenge of African Development - Civil Society and the African Integration project - Civil Society and the Donor System in Africa - Civil Society and the Aid System in...

The 14th University Meets Microfinance (UMM) Workshop invites university students, researchers and practitioners to explore the topics of Responsible Inclusive Finance and Customer Empowerment through various plenary and panel sessions by experts in the field of microfinance and financial inclusion.