The 99th KKG discusses changes, chances and challenges of the digital (r)evolution. Is the digital transformation merely the most recent form of technological change that allows for further productivity and welfare gains, leaving well-established economic principles in place? Or is this time...

The Institute of Employment Research (IAB) and the Deutsche Bundesbank hold a joint conference on the problems of the labour market performance during the crisis in Europe and also the U.S. Of specific (but not exclusive) interest are submissions on - The role of labor mobility for Euro Area...

The workshop will bring together leading scholars and young researchers pursuing research on labor markets in emerging and transition economies with a focus on the link of institutions and informal employment. Informality and informal employment pose a major challenge to policy makers in...

Program: - Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa - The School Reentry Decision of Poor Girls. Structural Estimation and Policy Analysis Using PROGRESA Database - Do Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Improve Work and Earnings among its Youth Beneficiaries? Evidence after a...

The aim of the conference is to highlight the consequences of the minimum wage on the basis of recent theoretical and empirical contributions. Contributions related to the employment and wage effects of the minimum wage, the optimal design of the minimum wage and its interaction with optimal...

We seek high-quality academic work from fields such as economics, sociology and political science. We are particularly interested in studies that provide cross-national comparisons or assessments of country-specific institutional reforms with policy relevance such as: public and child care; tax...

Recent decades have seen a significant increase in the participation of women in the labor market in a number of European countries. As a result there have been a growing number of papers examining these changes within countries. However, there have been many fewer papers examining the...