Thematic Session: Social interactions in the labour market Thematic Session: Match or mismatch? The role of skills, education and institutions Topics: 1. Macroeconomics of the Labour Market 2. Wages - Macro and Micro Analyses 3. Structural Change and the Labour Market 4. Labour Supply 5....

The Conference consists of a thematic session and a session including free contributions. The thematic session will be introduced by an invited lecture given by Peter Sloane (IZA, Bonn), followed by the presentation of the selected papers. A panel discussion on "The Future of Labour Economics in...

Through the theme “What is Happening to Work?” the Canadian Industrial Relations Association invites scholars and practitioners from all perspectives and disciplines to debate the consequences of changes in the areas of work and employment. We welcome submissions from all perspectives and...

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...

1st Thematic Session Labour, productivity and growth 2nd Thematic Session Temporary contracts and precarious jobs: working careers, life and family choices

This is the sixth congress of the international network "Regional & Local Development of Labour", which has been founded in 1999 in Italy. The target is to bring together activists namely from trade unions, from the social economy and researchers in the field of labour together as well as...

The member States of the ILO meet at the International Labour Conference, held every year in Geneva, Switzerland, in the month of June. Reports submitted to the Conference: I - Reports of the Chairperson of the Governing Body and of the Director-General II - Programme and budget and other...

Employment Week 2008, now celebrating its 15th year, continues to provide the perfect forum for all European employment and social affairs stakeholders to discuss and debate the achievements of European employment policies and trends. The 2008 conference will cover some of today's key questions...

The objective of the conference will be to draw up a comparative assessment of the researches carried out of the theme of foreign workers and the new migratory dynamics in Europe, by articulating several angles of approach. On the one hand, taking into account the diversification of the...

Topics: - The overall picture: Flexible labour markets and the role of social security - The coverage gap: Informal labour markets in the developing world - Reconciling social security and labour market flexibility - The prevailing focus on work: Making social security more employment-friendly -...