The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers who work with the data provided by the FDZ and to promote exchange between researchers and FDZ staff. The program committee invites submissions on any topic related to labor markets using FDZ data. This year’s conference will also host...

Online conference with a special focus on “Dropping out of Higher Education: Reasons, Selectivity, and Labour Market Outcomes“. Topics: - (Labour-market) perspectives of university dropouts. - Selectivity of dropout with respect to students’ social background. - Reasons for student...

The conference aims to bring together demographers, economists, sociologists and political scientists to discuss the most critical lessons on refugee integration in Europe and encourages contributions on the following topics: - refugee migration, family reunification and patterns of...

The conference offers the opportunity to participate as an online guest. This conference will focus on labor market transitions and on the evaluation of policies that governments implement to smooth such transitions. To expand the frontiers of knowledge about the importance of the labor market...

The IAB's Graduate School (GradAB) invites young researchers who study topics in labor economics and sociology to its 12th interdisciplinary Ph.D. workshop "Perspectives on (Un-)Employment". The event provides an opportunity for gradute students to present their ongoing research and receive...

Topics: - Who chooses (traditional) higher education programmes, who chooses vocational education, and who opts for cooperative education programmes? Are there systematic differences in students’ choices between these options, for example due to gender, academic or migration background, the...

The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is pleased to invite submissions for a workshop on “Vacancies, Hiring and Matching” in Nuremberg on October 1 and 2, 2019. In 2019, the IAB celebrates the 30th anniversary of the German Job Vacancy Survey, which has been collecting representative...

The 4th Workshop on “Spatial Dimensions of the Labour Market” focuses on topics concerning regional labour markets. This year, a special focus is placed on the causes and consequences of agglomeration effects, and on local labour markets. The workshop aims to bring together frontier...

The purpose of the workshop is four-fold, namely to: - Promote understanding of the role employers play in accounting for the gender wage gap GWG; - Establish the size of the GWG across countries and how the gap varies when accounting for the identity of the employer; - Identify mechanisms,...

This Anglo-German network is being set up to explore the dynamics of the school-to-work transition and its consequences across the life course in the context of educational expansion and technological change. Educational expansion, in particular of higher education, changes school-to-work...