European Governments made substantial efforts to reform labor market institutions when walking away from the Eurosclerosis of the 1980s. To achieve political viability, the reforms mostly entailed changing the rules only for new hires and introducing a wide array of new flexible, fixed-term,...

The workshop will bring together leading scholars and young researchers pursuing research on labor markets in emerging and transition economies with a focus on the link of institutions and informal employment. Informality and informal employment pose a major challenge to policy makers in...

Paper proposals are invited in any area of labour economics.

At this IZA topic week we will bring together economists and labor economists who have worked on the political economy of reforms in general and of labor markets reforms in transition and emerging economies. As we can perceive the transition context as a quasi-natural experiment, it is...

Lecturers: Gary Fields (Cornell University): “Modeling Labor Markets and Labor Market Policies” Eric V. Edmonds (Dartmouth College): “Child and Family Labor Supply in Low Income Economies”

In this 2-day workshop we plan to have papers on microeconomic aspects of labor market adjustment in transition and emerging economies. The main focus of the workshop is on countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and China, but research on the new member states of the European Union...

Topics: 1. Diagnosis of labor market conditions and vulnerability in middle and low income countries. 2. Links between the business environment, labor demand and poverty reduction. 3. Benefits/costs of structural reforms and globalization for workers 4. Causes and consequences of formality and...

The meeting will foster the establishment of the research network in the IZA focus area Evaluation of Labor Market Programs by bringing together international researchers in a relaxed atmosphere. The Program Committee invites submissions for about 16 presentations from academic researchers in...