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Call for papers: CREST – IFAU Workshop on Evaluating Labor Market Policies: Methods and Results

The IFAU workshop on Evaluating Labor Market Policies will take place from 12 to 13 June 2025.

The IFAU workshop from 12 to 13 June 2025 is being planned by the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) and the Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU). The event will take place in Palaiseau near Paris. About 10 presentations and a poster session are expected.

The workshop will cover the following topics:

  • Policies towards the unemployment (UI, training, activation policies)
  • Lobor market policy effects on inequality (in wages, occupations, job tasks, etc.)
  • Policies to integrate migrants into the labor market
  • Policies aiming at curbing discrimination on the labor market / or gender norms
  • Relationships between labor market policies and health
  • Labor policies for firms
  • Innovative methods for policy evaluation
  • Machine learning in policy design and in policy evaluation

We invite contributions on programme evaluation in relation to labour market policy issues. Papers with innovative approaches or methodological contributions are particularly welcome.

Papers can be submitted until 10 March 2025.

Further information can be found on the IAB event page.