The conference brings together leading economic scholars and policy practitioners to discuss cutting-edge research addressing Europe’s economic policy challenges. It is jointly organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs and the Joint...

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...

The webinar will be structured in two parts. Following an introduction by Commissioner Gentiloni, Laurence Boone (OECD) will give a keynote speech on “Tackling the fallout from COVID-19”. A high-level policy panel will then discuss the role of fiscal policy in mitigating the effects of the...

Topics: - Decoupling of advanced and emerging countries' growth prospects - Domestic and global drivers of low growth and low interest rates: demand for safe assets, demographics, productivity growth - Government debt policy in a low interest rate environment - Secular decline in interest rates...

Program: - "Waiting for Recall? Evidence from Temporary Layoffs in Austria" Andrea Weber; - "How Applications and Interviews Shape Job Finding" Rafael Lalive; - Roundtable Discussion I: Active Labor Market Policy during the COVID-19 Crisis; - "Empirical Evaluation of Broader Job Search...

Topics: Economics of the Family; Child Development and Labour Economics; Labour Supply; Education and Human Capital; Race & Gender & LGBT; Labour Demand; Skills, Income and Wage Inequality; Employer/Employee Matching, Job Mobility, and Wages; Labour Economics and Policy; Social Insurance and the...

The workshop will be a one-day event with high-profile speakers and discussants from academia and international institutions. The workshop will be structured in two parts. The first session will concentrate on the design of fiscal rules. The second session will focus on how to apply and enforce...

List of Themes and JEL-Codes: - Fertility, Family, Marriage and Work (D13, J1) - Labour Market Discrimination (J7, J15, J16) - Retirement (J14, J26, J32) - Labour Supply and Taxation (H2, J22) - Labour Force and Employment (J21) - Labour Demand (J23) - Occupational Choice and Intergenerational...

To expand the frontiers of global knowledge around jobs and advance the discussion on the most effective policies, we are interested in papers that focus on: - Increasing wage labor demand. - Creating jobs in the formal sector of the economy, including mobilizing capital for private sector...

The IZA Annual Migration Meeting aims at bringing together junior and senior migration researchers to discuss their most recent work in a constructive atmosphere. We encourage submissions on all topics related to the economics of migration.