IZA would like to encourage new research work in the important area of climate change. Global warming is increasing the frequency of extreme climatic conditions across the world. Despite efforts to mitigate the extent of climate change, exposure to extreme events such as heatwaves, floods, and...

We welcome submissions dealing with all economic aspects of migration. In particular, we envision the workshop to cover the following themes: - The economic drivers and impact of refugee migration; - Integration of immigrants in the host societies; - The impact of migration on labor market...

Topics: - The economic drivers and impact of refugee migration; - Integration of immigrants in the host societies; - The impact of migration on labor market outcomes, innovation, policy setting and welfare; - Migration policies and their economic impacts on sending and receiving countries.

Topics of the workshop: - The formation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in early childhood and adolescence; - Measurement of preferences and skills using survey instruments and experiments; - Malleability of preferences and cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and their rank order...

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...

The conference focuses on all aspects of firm-level decisions and firm-level developments as they impact upon labor market outcomes in industrialized countries. We invite empirical and theoretical contributions on this topic from all areas of economics, management research, and sociology.

The IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meetings are a joint initiative of IZA and the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) to underline the prominent role of international labor market research in Europe as well as the US. This is an event where IZA invites the members of SOLE to meet European researchers.

We welcome submissions of papers addressing these aspects with a regional focus on Europe, Central Asia and China. Topics: - Links between rural economic development and migration. - The effects of migration on rural households’ welfare. - The role of agricultural development in labor shortage...

Topics: - Labor market policy to reduce youth unemployment - The effects of flexible working time arrangements and temporary jobs - The effects of business cycles on earnings dynamics and worker mobility - Sources of the heterogeneity in labor market outcomes - Heterogeneous effects of labor...

Topics: - Recent trends in entrepreneurship - Demographic aspects of entrepreneurship - Public policy measures to foster entrepreneurship - The process of firm entry, growth, survival and exit - Changing demographic implications for entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship and migration -...