The conference is intended to discuss ongoing research on survey and micro data and its role and usage in macroeconomics. Papers, theoretical, empirical and policy oriented, are actively solicited on issues like (the list below is not exhaustive), - methodology of business surveys - uncertainty...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Erich Gundlach (Claussen-Simon-Professor of Economics University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth...

Das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung bietet in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Sozialökonomik der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg folgende Workshops an: - Einführungsworkshop "IAB-Betriebspanel" (24.09. - 25.09.2013) - 3. Nutzerworkshop Panel "Arbeitsmarkt...

Beim diesjährigen datalab-Workshop werden die Nutzungsmöglichkeiten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels (SOEP), des Beziehungsund Familienpanels (pairfam) sowie die Betriebs- und Linked- Employer-Employee-Datensätze (Mannheimer Innovationspanel, Datensätze des IfO Instituts und...

The workshop offers an introduction to the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The SOEP is a survey of the population of Germany that has been conducted annually since 1984 and addresses topics such as household composition, employment and family biography, income trajectories, health, education, life...

The GESIS Summer School offers high quality training in state of the art techniques and methods of survey research. It aims to equip participants with essential skills in the design, planning, execution, documentation and quality assurance of surveys of households, individuals or...

Program: - Cash Transfers and Social Assistance - Climate Change, Poverty and Migration - Education, Informality and Inequality - Education and Discrimination - Education and Labor Markets - Labor Market Programs and Employment - Health, Participation and Remittances - Welfare and Social Effects...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Marcel Fafchamps (University of Oxford) The first part of the course discusses contract enforcement mechanisms, with a particular focus on trust, relational contracting, and reputation...

The conference invites papers around the issues which may involve questions around the workings and structure of the International Labour Organisation, the world of work in the current context of global recession, issues surrounding social unrest as linked to rising unemployment, and the future...

Empirical research is seeking through methodological processes to discover, hopefully, nontrivial facts and insights. Beside choosing a topic and grounding an idea in theory, empirical research consists of gathering and analysing data as well as presenting results in scientific contexts in order...