ZEW will host an international workshop that will bring together 10 –15 scholars actively contributing to the growing literature on social mobility and its relation to economic performance. We are particularly interested in contributions that explore the causes and consequences of changes in...

Themenschwerpunkte: - Häufigkeit, Formen und Determinanten flexibler Arbeit, - Verhaltensbezogene, kognitive, ökonomische, gesundheitliche, organisatorische und psychologische Effekte der flexiblen Arbeitsformen, des ortsunabhängigen Arbeitens, sowie mobiler digitaler Arbeitsgeräte, -...

The conference focuses on occupations and skills in industrialized countries and on the ways these interact with employment, wages, participation in the labor market, and social inequality. We invite empirical and theoretical contributions on this topic from all areas of economics, personnel...

Contributions on the econometric evaluation of policies fighting social exclusion are welcome. A non-exhaustive list of topics is: - Policies for long-term unemployed and welfare recipients - Econometric methods of evaluation - Rehabilitation policies - Policies for socially excluded and...