The number of research publications doubles every nine years. More than 6,000 new journals are started every year. And policy makers do not read academic journals anyway. So how are we to stay on top of the current state of academic literature, what can we learn and how can consensus positions...

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 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...

Themen: - Deutschland, deine Digitalisierung? - Voranschreiten statt zurückbleiben. - Wandel der Arbeitswelt - Zwischen Ungewissheit und Zuversicht.

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...

Recent German and international policy initiatives such as the Compact with Africa or the Marshall Plan with Africa all have had a strong focus on promoting (foreign) private investment for job creation. The development success of these initiatives hinges on their ability to create decent work...

Topics: - Innovative methods for policy evaluation (e.g. field experiments) - Labor market policies for low-skilled, youth and other disadvantaged unemployed groups/welfare recipients - Policies to integrate refugees and migrants into the labor market - Relationship between labor market policies...

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...

This year's focus: Mobility drives security. The term mobility has different meanings in the following science disciplines. In economics, mobility is the ability of an individual or a group to improve their economic status in relation to income and wealth within their lifetime or between...

Topics: - The effectiveness of the new internet-based job search methods, both relative to more traditional forms of job search and to each other. - Descriptive studies of how workers and firms look for each other online: How do firms craft job ads? How do workers search for jobs over time? To...