European Governments made substantial efforts to reform labor market institutions when walking away from the Eurosclerosis of the 1980s. To achieve political viability, the reforms mostly entailed changing the rules only for new hires and introducing a wide array of new flexible, fixed-term,...

The Program Committee invites submissions for about 20 presentations from academic researchers in all areas of labor market policy evaluation and methodological contributions from related fields.

Program: Session A: Family Issues Session B: Occupational Adjustment Session C: Employer Attitudes Session D: Remittances Session E: Culture and Identity Session F: Migration Flows Session G: Public Issues Session H: Crime and Culture Session I: Africa 1 Session J: Africa 2 Session K: Rural and...

Well functioning labor markets are crucial to the adjustment process required of economies as they are battered with shocks from globalization, technology, etc. Which economic policies and institutions play a positive role in assisting the responsiveness of the labor market to these shocks while...

The goal of this workshop is to discuss international experiences with social policies and reforms, and to exchange ideas about methodological advances in program evaluation. We are particularly interested in papers undertaking evaluation of non-standard social policies and/or using non-standard...