The IAB's Graduate School (GradAB) invites young researchers who study topics in labor economics and sociology to its 12th interdisciplinary Ph.D. workshop "Perspectives on (Un-)Employment". The event provides an opportunity for gradute students to present their ongoing research and receive...

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...

The 4th Workshop on “Spatial Dimensions of the Labour Market” focuses on topics concerning regional labour markets. This year, a special focus is placed on the causes and consequences of agglomeration effects, and on local labour markets. The workshop aims to bring together frontier...

The workshop will focus on labor market research. Within this field, theoretical and empirical contributions from both the micro- and macro-perspective are welcome. Topics: Labour Supply, Labour Demand and Unemployment; Social Inequality and Discrimination; Gender and Family; Evaluation of...

This workshop aims to improve the knowledge on welfare and unemployment dynamics under different institutional settings. Potential questions that the workshop intends to answer are: - Unemployment and welfare dynamics: How long do individuals stay unemployed and on welfare? Which paths through...

The workshop will bring together leading economists from central banks and academic institutions to consider critical issues related to policy coordination between instruments and between countries. The financial crisis and the ensuing slow recovery brought to the forefront policy coordination...

The 3rd Workshop on 'Spatial Dimensions of the Labour Market' focuses on topics concerning regional labour markets. This year, a special focus is placed on inequality across space. The workshop aims to bring together frontier researchers from the areas of labour economics, regional economics,...

Topics of the 2011 meeting include: 1) Public debt and the process of fiscal rebalancing: - Sustainability considerations of public debt - Debt consolidation in times of recessions 2) Fiscal Policy in a Globalized World - Relation of fiscal debt and external debt - The role of foreign currency...

Suitable research questions for submissions include (but are not limited to): - How do the dynamics of labor market variables vary across countries and what explains these differences? - How have labor market dynamics changed over time, e.g. with the recent financial crisis? - How have changes...

Topics: 1) Sources of financial frictions: - Sources of liquidity - Reasons of market incompleteness and dysfunctions - Role of banks 2) Financial frictions in macromodels - Financial sector and real economy - Sources and consequences of financial crises - ‘Sudden stops’, financial contagion...