The aim of the conference is to present and discuss the latest policy-relevant research to foster the creation of multi-sector, multi-disciplinary solutions to jobs challenges around the world based on research and empirical evidence. In addition to the regular sessions in all fields of labor...

Workshop program: - The Changing Demand for Skills in the UK, - The Evolution of Task Prices in Germany, 1985 - 2010, - Returns to Cognitive Skills in 7 Developing Countries, - The Role of Literacy and Numeracy Skills Across Gender and Countries, - Skills for the 21st Century: Findings and...

Workshop program: - Gender and High Skill - Household Bargaining - Political Empowerment - Gender in Economics and Academia - Gender Issues in Developing Countries - Policy and Labor Supply - Mothers in the Labor Market - Crime and Risky Behaviors - Gender Wage Gap - Education and Gender

The aim of the 2018 workshop of the program area is to bring together researchers analyzing wider labor market impacts of environmental quality and environmental policies. We particularly encourage submissions of papers that provide credible empirical evidence on the following issues: - Effects...

The aim of this workshop is to bring together senior and junior researchers to present and discuss original research examining the link between health and the labor market. Topics: - Health and labor market outcomes - Determinants of sickness absence - Health insurance and the labor market -...

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers analyzing wider labor market impacts of the digital economy, i.e. how these technological changes have directly and indirectly affected the world of work, in particular labor productivity. We encourage submissions of papers that provide...

The Program on Labor and Development is concerned with the functioning of labor markets in developing countries, with a particular focus on employment and earnings both in wage employment and in self-employment. The aim of the 2017 IZA Workshop on Labor and Development is to bring together...

Topics of the workshop: - Measurement of preferences and personality traits using survey instruments and experiments - Malleability of preferences and personality traits, and their rank order stability - Preferences and personality traits as driving factors of selection into labor market states...

The aim of the workshop is to gather about 30 researchers working on the economics of education, in particular on the theme "Making schools work - better". Topics: - Easing school-to-work transition - Evaluation of schooling reforms - School financing - Technological change in the classroom -...