Online platforms and algorithms play a central role in matching workers with jobs. In this workshop we seek to improve our understanding of how these mechanisms work and how they affect economic outcomes like employment, wages and inequality. We also investigate how best to take advantage of the...

Topics of the workshop: - The formation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in early childhood and adolescence; - Measurement of preferences and skills using survey instruments and experiments; - Malleability of preferences and cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and their rank order...

Topics: - Recent trends in entrepreneurship - Demographic aspects of entrepreneurship - Public policy measures to foster entrepreneurship - The process of firm entry, growth, survival and exit - Changing demographic implications for entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship and migration -...

Themen: - Wie riesig sind die „Internet-Riesen“ wirklich und wie verändern sie die Wirtschaft? - Müssen die Wettbewerbsregeln im Angesicht der Digitalisierung angepaßt werden? - Arbeit für alle – auch im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung?

Possible Topics: 1. Incentive effects on non-market time use. 2. Measuring the value of household activities, aimed at improving the inputs into national accounts. 3. The economic determinants of holiday/vacation time and the use of holiday time. 4. Effect of tax/transfer systems on non-market...

The objective of the Summer School is to bring together a large number of PhD students and senior lecturers to study new areas in labor economics. Students have the opportunity to present their work and discuss ideas with established researchers in a relaxed and open atmosphere. The School is...

The workshop takes a broad view of the topic and invites theoretical as well as empirical research to be presented.

Session I: Technology and Immigration - "The Impact of Immigration on New Technology Adoption in U.S. Manufacturing" - "Are New Work Practices and New Technologies Biased against Immigrant Workers?" - "Migration and Technological Change in Rural Households: Complements or Substitutes?" Session...