We invite contributions from both senior and junior researchers that focus on the role of families in insuring individuals against downside risk. Potential topics include: - The role of households in insuring against income risk or health risk; - The trade-off between self-insurance of...

Key themes: Time Use during COVID-19; Time Use and Family Health Behaviors; Time Use and Gender; Behavioral Effects Time and Financial Stress; Sleep and Employment; Fatigue and Leisure Consumption; Sleep Deprivation Wellbeing; Employment and Time Use; Mental Health and Labor Market. Keywords:...

The aim of the 2021 workshop of IZA's Environment, Health, and Labor Markets program area is to bring together researchers analyzing the impact of environmental factors and health policies on labor market outcomes, human capital outcomes, industrial activity, production decisions and demographic...

Program: - "Countercyclical Congestion"; - "The Real Wages of Newly Hired Workers over the Business Cycle: When the Difference between Worker Flows from Unemployment and Out-of-Labor Force Matters"; - "The Dynamics of Job Search in Unemployment"; - "Minimum Wages in Concentrated Labor...

Population aging brings new challenges for the organization of labor markets regarding how social care for frail older individuals should be delivered and financed. This presents an opportunity to increase employment in the caregiving sector, but it also has strong implications for the health...

To expand the frontiers of global knowledge around jobs and advance the discussion on the most effective policies, we are interested in papers that focus on: - Increasing wage labor demand. - Creating jobs in the formal sector of the economy, including mobilizing capital for private sector...

The IZA Annual Migration Meeting aims at bringing together junior and senior migration researchers to discuss their most recent work in a constructive atmosphere. We encourage submissions on all topics related to the economics of migration.

Submissions in all areas of gender and family economics are welcome. Topics: - Children's development: health, education, capability (cognitive and non-cognitive) - Theoretical models on parenting and related family decisions - Evaluation of policies with respect to children - Consequences of...

Going into its 15th edition this year, the IZA Annual Migration Meeting aims at bringing together junior and senior migration researchers to discuss their most recent work in a constructive atmosphere. We encourage submissions on all topics related to the economics of migration.

Conference program: Session A 1: Culture and Gender, Session A 2: Education and Training in Developing Economies, Session A 3: Educational Outcomes, Session A 4: Employment Protection, Session A 5: Female Labor Force Participation, Session A 6: Health and Labor, Session A 7: Inequality and...