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...

The workshop will focus on labor market research. Within this field, theoretical and empirical contributions from both the micro- and macro-perspective are welcome. Topics: Labour Supply, Labour Demand and Unemployment; Social Inequality and Discrimination; Gender and Family; Evaluation of...