The Covid-19 pandemic has touched everyone in some way, but many of its impacts have been disproportionately felt by women: Job losses and care burdens, for example, have fallen on women relatively more than men. Two years after the pandemic began, and as countries increasingly move toward...

The conference welcomes academics, as well as corporate or government economists. The conference theme: Global Economy after 2020: Emerging Economies, Growth and Population. - Plenary Session 1: " Emerging Economies " - Plenary Session 2: " Growth and Population in Emerging and Advanced Economies "

Topics of the workshop: - The formation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in early childhood and adolescence; - Measurement of preferences and skills using survey instruments and experiments; - Malleability of preferences and cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and their rank order...

The workshop aims to provide an exchange platform for researchers and policy makers to share their research and insights on the job search behavior of individuals. Together with presenting the main results of the project “On-the-Job Search Behavior” which is funded by TUBITAK, the workshop...

The main theme of the conference is “Human Capital, Innovative Industries and Employment”. The conference aims to generate a debating ground for economists from around the world through invited and contributed sessions.

This second IZA/Higher School of Economics workshop will bring together labor economists who are working on labor market adjustment in the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Central Asian former Soviet Republics and China. While the main focus of the workshop is on the specified topic,...

Authors are invited to submit original papers addressing areas including, but not limited to, the following: - Promising practices or policies in schools or work places to promote the employability of youth, particularly of less-skilled youth. - Identifying policies or practices that work as...

Program: Keynote Speeches: - David Neumark (Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, and IZA) "Age Discrimination Laws and Age Discrimination in the United States" - Juan F. Jimeno (Head of the Research Division of the Bank of Spain and IZA) "What/How Dismissal Regulation...

The Regional Social Security Forum for Europe will provide a key platform for information and exchange on the most important regional social security trends and priority issues inthe region. A unique networking opportunity, the Forum will bring together social security administrators and...

Program: Session A: Fertility in Russia Session B: Migrants and their Behavior in Central Asia and Russia Session C: Retirement and Consumption Session D: Invited Policy Lecture Session E: Informality and Self-Employment Session F: Minimum Wages in Russia Session G: Education and Labor Market...