The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum for high-quality work in labour economics and to bring together economists in the field from across Europe as well as key researchers from outside the region. Paper proposals are invited in any area of labour economics.

List of Themes: - Fertility, Family, Marriage and Work (D13, J1) - Labour Market Discrimination (J7, J15, J16) - Retirement (J14, J26, J32) - Labour Supply and Taxation (H2, J22) - Labour Force and Employment (J21) - Labour Demand (J23) - Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Mobility (J44,...

Topics: Human capital and labor markets; Formal and informal labor markets; Child labor and forced labor; Networking and entrepreneurship; Public sector employment; Agricultural and rural labor; Unemployment, underemployment and labor misallocation; Wage inequality and redistribution; Social...

IZA and DFID organize the first workshop in their joint program on growth and labor markets in low-income countries. The GLM-LIC program aims to improve worldwide knowledge on labor market issues in low-income countries and provide a solid basis for capacity building and the development of...

The Summer School has a two-in-one aim: developing international scientific knowledge in the field of labour studies and enhancing English language skills in social sciences. Programme: Tuesday 13th Inaugural address by Professor Michael Burawoy: “Labor Studies in the 21st century” Wednesday...

We welcome contributions from theorists and empiricists alike who are interested in broadening our understanding of the economics of welfare which continues to flourish. Following work by Sen, Stiglitz and others that has helped to bring about the Sarkozy Report, the EU’s Beyond GDP memorandum...

The overall theme of the workshop is the transformation of social policies in a comparative perspective. We welcome abstracts related to one of the three topics below. 1) Employment policies 2) Private insurance 3) Care

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: - Economic-social-legal conditions and symptoms of labour market flexibility - Flexibility of national labour markets in countries - EU members (role of state in forming flexibility of labour market and European social model (guidelines, strategies, European founds) - Employers and...