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...

The conference will highlight contemporary energy themes at the intersection of economics, technology and public policy, including those affecting energy infrastructure, environmental regulation, markets, the role of governments, and international energy trade. Participation from industry,...

Our goal in setting the conference theme and establishing the theme tracks is for the Society to explicitly address if we are missing economically and socially important phenomena. This will enhance our awareness of potential biases in our scholarship and biases within the general discourse of...

Topics: Petroleum Economics; Economics of Gas Trading; Geopolitical Competition in the Caspian Basin and Middle East; Energy Modeling; Energy Markets and Regulation; Challenges in Gas Supply and Transportation; Energy poverty and Subsidies; Regional Energy Markets; Energy Policy for Sustainable...

The aim of this year’s meeting is to bring together senior and junior researchers to discuss their most recent research related to labor market institutions. Topics: Unemployment insurance; Employment protection; Active labor market programs; Short-time work schemes; Collective bargaining;...

The central topic of this conference will be to assess the impacts and identify the main challenges of these events for all energy segments: oil, natural gas and power markets through the entire value chain in order to design a sustainable policy for the following decade. The main question to be...

The purpose of the 2019 workshop of IZA's "Labor Statistics" program area is to bring together senior and junior researchers to discuss their recent empirical research related to contract work. We particularly encourage submissions of papers that present new evidence on: - The prevalence of and...

The objective of the Summer School is to bring together a large number of PhD students and senior lecturers to study topics in labor economics. The Summer School is open to advanced graduate students from European universities, or Europeans studying abroad, engaged in the preparation of a...

Both scholarly contributions and practice-oriented papers are welcome in all tracks. Conference theme tracks: Track A: Risky Choice and Luck, Track B: Innovation Under Uncertainty, Track C: Organizational Learning and Adaptation, Track D: Firm Scope and Governance. This Special Conference will...