The Summer School addresses PhD students and Post-docs with a strong academic record and a keen interest in policy issues, and staff members of policy institutions.

Economic Growth - Gino Gancia (CREI and University Pompeu Fabra) This course consists of five three-hour lectures on topics in the area of economic growth and technological progress. A first goal of the course is to discuss different theories of economic growth and their relative merits in...

Labor Market Consequences of Globalization - Gordon Hanson (University of California at San Diego) Overview: The course will examine recent empirical and theoretical literature on the labor market consequences of international trade and foreign investment in advanced and emerging economies.

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Labor Markets and Distribution - Giuseppe Bertola (EDHEC Business School) The course studies how the structure of labor markets determines employment and unemployment outcomes and, together...

The International Financial Crisis has resulted in a number of new approaches for analyzing the links between financial markets and macroeconomic performance. This includes the explicit integration of a financial sector in standard macroeconomic models, as well as the consideration of aspects...

We are delighted to announce the 9th IZA Annual Migration Meeting (AM²). We seek high quality academic work that extends, enriches, refines, and challenges our understanding of the broad array of issues related to migration. Researchers are expected to present their best ongoing cutting-edge work.

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,...

IZA and DFID organize the first workshop in their joint program on growth and labor markets in low-income countries. The GLM-LIC program aims to improve worldwide knowledge on labor market issues in low-income countries and provide a solid basis for capacity building and the development of...

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.

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. In this seminar (Professor Gordon Hanson, UC San Diego and NBER) we will examine how global economic integration affects labor markets with emphasis on mechanisms related to global...