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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).

Perspectives on (Un-)Employment

14th Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Workshop

​The workshop took place from January 18th to 20th 2023. Read the complete event report.

The IAB’s Graduate School (GradAB) invites young researchers to its 14th interdisciplinary Ph.D. workshop “Perspectives on (Un-)Employment”. The workshop provides an opportunity for graduate students to present their ongoing work in the field of theoretical and empirical labor market research and receive feedback from leading scholars in the discipline. We seek papers that cover any one of the following topics:

  • Labor supply, labor demand and unemployment
  • Evaluation of labor market institutions and policies
  • Education, qualification and job tasks
  • Inequality, poverty and discrimination
  • Gender and family
  • Migration and international labor markets
  • Health and job satisfaction
  • Technological change and digitization
  • The impact of climate change on the labor market
  • Applications of machine learning and big data in labor market research
  • Survey methodology (in labor market research)
  • Data quality (in labor market research)
  • Innovative data collection methods

Call for Papers

Submission

We invite Ph.D. students to submit an extended abstract (maximum of 500 words) or a full (preliminary) paper in pdf format to IAB.PHD-WORKSHOP@iab.de.

  • The submission should include your contact information and CV
  • Please use the format lastname_firstname_paper.pdf
  • Please name up to five keywords (or JEL classification) at the beginning of your submission to categorize your research

Deadline

The deadline for submission is 14 October 2022. We will notify you about whether your paper has been accepted by 8 November 2022.

Travel Costs

For presenters without funding, a limited number of travel grants are available. Please indicate along with your submission whether you would like to apply for a travel grant. We will provide more information about the application with the notifications of acceptance.

Date

18.1.2023 - 20.1.2023

Keynote speakers

  • Professor Jennie E. Brand (University of California, Los Angeles)
  • Professor Uta Schönberg (UCL, London)
  • Professor Melanie Revilla (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Further information

The IAB Graduate Program (GradAB) is a joint program of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the School of Business and Economics of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. The program offers a curriculum of different doctoral courses. The doctoral students work in the field of empirical and theoretical labor market research. The aim of the program is to train outstanding junior researchers primarily from the social sciences and economics disciplines in the field of labor market and occupational research.