Topics: - Benchmarking euro area/EU growth and productivity growth with other advanced economies. How much could be gained from catching up with best practice? - Which factors explain the TFP wedge with the US? What is the role of human capital, workforce organisation and management practices? -...

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...

Die Novelle des WissZeitVg ist beschlossene Sache. Nunmehr gilt es, die Konsequenzen auszuloten und die veränderten Rahmenbedingungen für die tägliche Arbeit in Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen produktiv zu machen. Diese Tagung thematisiert die wechselseitigen Erwartungen von Politik...

Die Europäische Fachtagung „Von Deutschlands Grenzen nach Brüssel und zurück“ fragt nach den aktuellen Entwicklungen und Perspektiven grenzregionaler und darüber hinaus grenzüberschreitender Berufsbildungsgestaltung. Was sind die Bezugspunkte für die Bildungskooperationen und inwiefern...

Exemplary research questions that will be presented are: - What medium to long-term benefits may firms and individuals have from participating in VET? - How do labour market institutions and policy changes influence the training behaviour of firms and individuals in different countries? - How do...

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...

PEGNet will use the occasion of its tenth anniversary to discuss the design of the necessary transformation and structural changes of developing and emerging economies towards inclusive and sustainable growth within the context of the Post-2015 Agenda. The plenary sessions will focus...

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...

All CESifo research network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic within the broad domain of the Economics of Education. Please note that Area Conferences are open to CESifo Network Members only.