The workshop will focus on, but not be limited to, theoretical and empirical research in the following fields: - International perspectives on the labour market - Health and labour market outcomes - Intergenerational mobility - Macroeconomic analysis of labour markets - Labour market...

Growth and Comparative Economic Development - Oded Galor (Brown University) Structure of the Course: Day 1: - Lecture I: From Stagnation to Growth: An overview - Lecture II: The Malthusian Epoch Day 2: - Lecture I: Theories of the Demographic Transition - Lecture II: Unified Growth Theory and...

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from Germany and the UK to exchange information and insights regarding their research approach and findings on skill formation in context. While in Germany the transition through the education system and into employment is well structured...

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses selected empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

Topics: - Formal and informal institutions and firms in the open economy - Natural resources and the quality of institutions - Interactions between domestic product and factor markets, institutions and comparative advantage - The role of institutions in transition - Institutional determinants of...

Education policies may diverge from empirical insight because political actors are responsive to the opinions of voters and interest groups. The workshop aims to create a better grasp of the heterogeneity in and the formation of the electorate’s opinions on education policy. It provides a...

Topics: - Trends in wealth, income, wage, educational, and consumption inequality - Intergeneration transmission of inequality - Job tasks and inequality - Trade and inequality - Institutions and wage inequality - Politics and inequality - War and inequality - Inequality and happiness - Racial...

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...

This international workshop will focus on, but not be limited to, empirical research in the following fields: - Labour market institutions and policies - Inequality and education - Regional disparities - Labour mobility and dynamics - Qualification and skills

Der Workshop ist ein Teil des Projekts „Postwachstumspioniere – Kommunikationsprojekt zur Erweiterung des Postwachstumsdiskurses um die Rolle mittelständischer Unternehmen“ (www.postwachstumspioniere.de), das von der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) gefördert und vom IÖW gemeinsam...