While work continues to provide the basis for our material and social well-being, it is undergoing continuous transformation. Digitalization, globalization, and demographic change are affecting working conditions, forms of employment, employment opportunities, and occupational skill profiles....

Topics: - Job flows, the Beveridge curve and mismatch - Adjustment to new technologies and globalisation - Demographics: aging, female participation and migration - Wage adjustments - Resilience to shocks.

The workshop ‘Comparative Analysis of Longitudinal Data on Educational Outcomes’ aims to describe and discuss educational transitions and outcomes in Europe across the life course. To evaluate educational outcomes in different educational systems, this workshop focuses on the use of various...

The workshop will focus on the causes and effects of heterogeneity among workers, households, or firms on macroeconomic outcomes. This includes but is not limited to research on wage dispersion, heterogeneity in unemployment and participation, the roles of firms and technologies in shaping...

Topics: - Sustainable development, global partnerships for development between global south and north - Social innovation, social entrepreneurship, hybrid organizations, alternative organizational forms ; - Moral aspects (limits) in managing global supply chains, transnational governance, CSR in...

Randomized experiments are the golden standard of causal analysis and have become an important tool in policy evaluations. However, conducting field experiments poses several methodical challenges like external validity, spillover effects, or dynamic selection. The two-day workshop seeks to...

The purpose of this workshop is to present and promote current theoretical and empirical research related to the theory of incentives in markets which are not perfectly competitive. We are particularly interested in works examining the role of information asymmetry between employers and...

Topics: - Who chooses (traditional) higher education programmes, who chooses vocational education, and who opts for cooperative education programmes? Are there systematic differences in students’ choices between these options, for example due to gender, academic or migration background, the...

Internationale Arbeitsteilung, Digitalisierung und technologischer Fortschritt stellen Unternehmen vor komplexe, zukunftsentscheidende Fragen, können ganze Wirtschaftszweige bedrohen und viele Arbeitsplätze kosten. Gleichzeitig ergeben sich durch strukturellen Wandel und die damit...

The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is pleased to invite submissions for a workshop on “Vacancies, Hiring and Matching” in Nuremberg on October 1 and 2, 2019. In 2019, the IAB celebrates the 30th anniversary of the German Job Vacancy Survey, which has been collecting representative...