The Standing Field Committee on Social Policy (Ausschuss für Sozialpolitik) of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), and the Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER) of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg (FAU) are pleased to announce a workshop on “Social Policy”.
This two-day conference (starting at Thursday noon and ending on Friday afternoon) seeks to bring together researchers addressing different aspects of social policy, e.g. migration and integration, unemployment insurance, welfare system, pension policy, education policy, family policy, and health policy.
Date
12.10.2023 - 13.10.2023
Venue
Institute for Employment Research
Regensburger Straße 104
90478 Nuremberg
Keynote speakers
Christina Gathmann (LISER and University of Luxembourg)
Scientific committee
Stefan Bauernschuster (Universität Passau)
Peter Haan (DIW and FU Berlin)
Gesine Stephan (IAB and FAU)
Submission
We invite researchers to submit full papers for a presentation (there will be no parallel sessions). Submitters should also be willing to discuss the paper of an assigned fellow presenter. Please submit electronic versions (pdf format) to IAB.socialpolicy@iab.de.
Programme
Thursday, October 12, 2023
- 11:15 Registration, light lunch, and coffee
- 12:00 Welcome address
- Carsten Schröder, Gesine Stephan
- 12:10 Keynote Lecture
Trends and Drivers of Wage Inequality in Germany- Christina Gathmann (Labor and Socio-Economonic Research-Center)
- 13.10 Coffee break
Session 1
- 13:40 Born in the land of milk and honey: The impact of hometown growth on individual wealth
- Charlotte Bartels (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung)
- Discussant: Peter Haan
- 14.20 Increasing employment and family care? A structural analysis of pension and long-term care policy reforms
- Björn Fischer (Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH)
- Discussant: Volker Meier
- 15.00 Behavioral responses to income taxation in Norway
- Michael Graber (Uni Oslo)
- Discussant: Charlotte Bartels
- 15:40 Coffee break
Session 2
- 16:10 Forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth: Evidence from Germany
- Elisabeth Artmann (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung)
- Discussant: Bernhard Boockmann
- 16.50 Tightening access to early retirement: Who can adapt?
- Bernhard Boockmann (Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung, Uni Tübingen)
- Discussant: Katharina Wrohlich
- 17:30 End of first workshop day
- 19:00 Conference dinner: Restaurant Pinsano, Lorenzer Pl. 23, 90402 Nürnberg
Friday, October 13, 2023
Session 3
- 9:00 Do caseworker meetings prevent unemployment?
- Michael Oberfichtner (IAB, Friedrich-Alexander Universität)
- Discussant: Steffen Müller
- 9.40 Voluntary unemployment insurance for the self-employed: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
- Arne Uhlendorff (Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistiques, Centre de National Recherche en Economie et Statistiques, IAB)
- Discussant: Stefan Bauernschuster
- 10.20 Do employers learn more from referrals than from other recruitment channels?
- Nicole Gürtzgen (IAB, Uni Regensburg)
- Discussant: tba
- 11:00 Coffee break
Session 4
- 11:30 Long run career effects of multiple job holding
- Regina Riphahn (FAU)
- Discussant: Michael Oberfichtner
- 12.10 Gendered effects of the minimum wage
- Haomin Wang (Uni Konstanz)
- Discussant: Lutz Bellmann
- 12.50 Parental leave and discrimination on the labor market
- Katharina Wrohlich (DIW, Uni Potsdam)
- Discussant: Clemens Hetschko
- 13:30 Lunch and end of workshop
- 14:30 Member meeting
- 15:30 End of member meeting
Each paper: 25 min presentation, 5 min assigned discussion, 10 min open discussion
Registration
- July 1, 2023: Deadline for submission
- July 15, 2023: Notification of acceptance
There will be no workshop fee for presenters of accepted papers.
Further information
On the Standing Field Committee on Social Policy: A large part of the research activity of the German Economic Association takes place in specialized committees. Their task is to carry out special work and to promote professional discourse in their respective fields. Working meetings are held regularly for this purpose. This workshop opens up the yearly meeting of the Standing Field Committee on Social Policy for presentations by non-members.
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