In Europe, the past decade has been marked by relatively strong employment growth, while labour productivity and labour shares have experienced a decline in a number of countries, in particular in the euro area. Understanding the patterns, sources and implications of employment dynamics is...

The special areas of interest of the conference are: - determinants of migration, - labour migration after EU enlargement and its impact on the labour markets of the sending and the receiving countries, - macroeconomic effects of migration (remittances, balance of payments, economic growth,...

During this conference, research projects which are based on BA and IAB data will be introduced. Moreover, the conference is an important contact and experience exchange forum for data users and producers.

This seminar has been organized because 26 years after the adoption of the Resolution concerning statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment by the 13th ICLS (1982), time may have come to start reflecting upon a possible revision or update of...

Theme: Labour underutilisation, skill shortages, and social inclusion - three sides of the same coin.

The workshop discusses recent research that evaluates passive and active labour market policies.

In this 2-day workshop we plan to have papers on microeconomic aspects of labor market adjustment in transition and emerging economies. The main focus of the workshop is on countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and China, but research on the new member states of the European Union...

We invite proposals for papers or sessions that address either the general theme of this year conference "Labour, Institutions and Growth in a Global Knowledge-Based Economy" or the topic of one of the Research Areas or both.

This conference will focus on policy-oriented theoretical and empirical research which is meant to contribute to this debate, based on a careful analysis of existing constraints and relevant goals. Papers dealing with one or more of the following issues are particularly welcome. - Welfare state...

Schwerpunkt des Workshops ist die Analyse der Wirkungen der Arbeitsmarktreformen im Rahmen der Hartz-Gesetze und der Agenda 2010 einerseits und die Diskussion des trotz oder wegen dieser Gesetze verbleibenden Handlungsbedarfs andererseits. Beiträge zu gesamtwirtschaftlichen Reformwirkungen sind...