The workshop will focus on the causes and effects of heterogeneity among workers, households, or firms on macroeconomic outcomes. This includes but is not limited to research on wage dispersion, heterogeneity in unemployment and participation, the roles of firms and technologies in shaping...

Our goal in setting the conference theme and establishing the theme tracks is for the Society to explicitly address if we are missing economically and socially important phenomena. This will enhance our awareness of potential biases in our scholarship and biases within the general discourse of...

The aim of this year’s meeting is to bring together senior and junior researchers to discuss their most recent research related to labor market institutions. Topics: Unemployment insurance; Employment protection; Active labor market programs; Short-time work schemes; Collective bargaining;...

The purpose of the 2019 workshop of IZA's "Labor Statistics" program area is to bring together senior and junior researchers to discuss their recent empirical research related to contract work. We particularly encourage submissions of papers that present new evidence on: - The prevalence of and...

The objective of the Summer School is to bring together a large number of PhD students and senior lecturers to study topics in labor economics. The Summer School is open to advanced graduate students from European universities, or Europeans studying abroad, engaged in the preparation of a...

Both scholarly contributions and practice-oriented papers are welcome in all tracks. Conference theme tracks: Track A: Risky Choice and Luck, Track B: Innovation Under Uncertainty, Track C: Organizational Learning and Adaptation, Track D: Firm Scope and Governance. This Special Conference will...

The goal of the symposium is to bring together leading economists working in any area of labour economics. To foster the desired interaction, we ask that participants stay for the entire duration of the conference.

The SMS will hold a Doctoral Workshop on June 13, 2019, preceding the SMS Special Conference in Frankfurt. The main objectives of the Doctoral Workshop are to foster interaction among leading faculty scholars and doctoral students on various aspects of research and on preparing for a...

To expand the frontiers of global knowledge around jobs and advance the discussion on the most effective policies, we are interested in papers that focus on: - Increasing wage labor demand. - Creating jobs in the formal sector of the economy, including mobilizing capital for private sector...