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Conferences and Workshops

On its own or together with other institutions the IAB organizes numerous meetings for the scientific community and for professionals in the public sphere, especially for the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS).

2nd Workshop on Urban Labor Markets and Local Income Inequality

Call for Papers

Urban labor markets provide agglomeration advantages to workers and firms. However, the distributional consequences are not fully understood. Agglomeration benefits are unevenly shared among low- and high-skilled workers. At the same time, many large urban labor markets around the world have experienced strongly rising housing costs in recent decades, especially for renters and young first-time homebuyers, putting these groups at risk of being priced out of the local labor market. The workshop aims to bring together junior and senior researchers working on these and related issues and welcomes both empirical and theoretical contributions. The list of topic includes, but is not limited to

  • Distributional consequences of agglomeration benefits
  • Labor market outcomes and housing affordability
  • Highly-local income inequality
  • Spatial extent of local labor markets and commuting patterns
  • Neighborhood effects and segregation
  • Interactions between local housing and labor markets

Date

11.12.2025 - 12.12.2025

Venue

IAB Nürnberg
Regensburger Str. 104
90478 Nuremberg
Germany

Keynote speakers

  • Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto

Scientific committee

  • Melanie Arntz, IAB and FAU
  • Wolfgang Dauth, IAB and University of Bamberg
  • Maximilian von Ehrlich, University of Bern
  • Sebastian Findeisen, University of Konstanz
  • Ines Helm, University of Linz
  • Elke Jahn, IAB Nürnberg and University of Bayreuth
  • Andreas Mense, IAB
  • Michael Pflüger, University of Würzburg
  • Tobias Seidel, University of Duisburg-Essen
  • Milan Quentel, Stanford University and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Submission

The deadline for submission is June 30, 2025.
Please submit your paper in PDF format to urban-labor@iab.de.
We consider submissions of full papers and extended abstracts, but all else equal, preference will be given to full papers.
Decisions of acceptance will be given by July 31, 2025.

 

Further information

There will be presentations by participants and one keynote presentation on two days. There is no conference fee for presenters. Presenters are invited to the conference dinner on December 11, and to lunches and coffee breaks during the workshop. We plan an excursion to the famous Christkindlesmarkt of Nuremberg on December 12.

We can offer travel assistance covering hotel accommodation for two nights in the conference hotel (Ramada Hotel Nürnberg) to a limited number of participants. Please indicate in your submission whether travel assistance is a requirement for your participation. Priority is given according to need and quality of the submission.

Contact

Andreas Mense
IAB Nürnberg
urban-labor@iab.de