The aim of the First IZA Workshop on Climate Change and Labor Markets is to bring together researchers analyzing these and other implications of climate change or climate change adaptation for labor markets.

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...

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...

This workshop wants to bring together junior and senior researchers who analyze the Chinese labor market in a rigorous fashion. While we invite contributions covering any aspect of labor market adjustment in China, one focus of the workshop will be the experience of young Chinese workers, where...

Program: Session A: - Forever Young? Social Policies for a Changing Population in Southern Africa, - Invisible Workers: Exploring the Links etween Employment and Pathways out of Poverty, Session B: - Direct and Indirect Effects of Malawi’s Public Works Program on Food Security, - Seasonal...

Topics include (but are not limited to): - Earnings inequality and workers’ well-being - Precarious versus stable jobs - Informality and job quality - Innovative ways to measure the quality of the work environment - The impact of early entry into the labor market on job quality - Gender...

Topics: - Innovative methods for policy evaluation (e.g. field experiments) - Labor market policies for low-skilled, youth and other disadvantaged unemployed groups - The effects of labor market policies on inequality (in wages, occupations, job tasks etc.) - Relationship between labor market...

The aim of the Workshop is to bring together domestically-based dynamic general equilibrium macroeconomists. This is not intended to be a restriction. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.

Labor related issues have been studied in the economics profession from a number of different angles. The goal of the Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School is to cover a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, the BLSS offers courses that will...

The goal of the Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School is to cover a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, the BLSS offers courses that will cover recent developments within the macro-labor, micro-labor and managerial-labor contexts. In each...