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Studies addressing topics from a theoretical and/or empirical perspective for presentation at the workshop.

The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is pleased to announce our 2nd workshop on imperfect competition in the labor market. Studies addressing one of the following topics from a theoretical and/or empirical perspective are particularly welcome for presentation at the workshop:

  • Models of monopsonistic and oligopsonistic competition
  • Quantifying the elasticity of labor supply to the firm
  • The role of firms in wage-setting and rent-sharing
  • Outside options and wages
  • Employment concentration and wages
  • Policies to remedy imperfect competition

This year’s focus topic is ‘Intended and Unintended Consequences of Higher Education’.

The HELM conference is jointly organized by the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) and the IAB. It combines contributions with a general perspective on ‘Higher Education and the Labour Market’, including research on returns to tertiary education, dropout, or graduate placement in the labour market, with contributions on alternating focus topics.

This year’s focus topic is ‘Intended and Unintended Consequences of Higher Education’. Reforms are ubiquitous in higher education and range from small-scale changes or programmes focusing e.g. on facilitating labour market entry or reducing dropout to large-scale reforms such as the Bologna reform. What - independent of their scale - all these reforms share is that their success and overall outcomes are ex ante uncertain. Therefore, it has become widely accepted that the evaluation of such reforms is vital.

Thus, in the part of the conference on this year’s focus topic, we particularly welcome contributions that evaluate such reforms or look at reforms from a methodological perspective. In this context we are particularly interested in:

  • Papers evaluating programmes that focus on the transition from secondary school to higher education or from higher education to the labour market. We are interested in both papers focusing on reforms or programmes aimed at increasing the overall success of such transitions (e.g., by promoting university access, reducing dropout, or providing students with skills relevant for labour market success) as well as papers that focus on reforms or programmes aimed at promoting particular aspects during transition processes (such as subject choice).
  • Papers evaluating unintended effects of reforms. Independent of a reform’s or programme’s main objective, there might be additional (positive or negative) effects. There is a small but growing literature on this topic, and we particularly welcome papers that focus on such unintended effects.
  • Papers focusing on methodological approaches or using innovative methodological approaches to study (potential) reform options. In this context, we are particularly (but not exclusively) interested in control group designs for evaluating ongoing reforms (e.g., through the lagged introduction of reform components for part of the sample, or experiments in which potential components of a reform are introduced to some students as part of a control-group design).

The study documents the cyclicality of vacancy flows and their contribution to variation in the vacancy stock with data from Austria.

This paper uses large-scale high-frequency data on vacancy flows and matched employer-employee data from Austria to document the cyclicality of vacancy flows and their contribution to variation in the vacancy stock.

We document four key facts: (1) Vacancy inflows explain at least one-third of the cyclical variation in the vacancy stock, whereas the remainder is explained by vacancy fillings; (2) vacancy lapses, while accounting for about 20% of vacancy outflows, are acyclical and do not contribute to variation in the stock; (3) replacement vacancies, i.e. vacancies posted following a quit of a worker to another firm, are a key driver of vacancy inflows over the business cycle; and (4) the composition of vacancy inflows varies little over the business cycle and cannot account for the cyclical variation in vacancy filling. We set up a search-and-matching model with fixed costs of vacancy posting and on-the-job search, and calibrate it to match the averages of vacancy flows.

The calibrated model highlights the crucial role of on-the-job search – particularly replacement hires – in explaining the observed importance of vacancy inflows for cyclical fluctuations in the vacancy rate.

This workshop aims to advance research on labor market outcomes, family policy, and career development, drawing on rich register data from Germany and Norway.

This workshop aims to advance research on labor market outcomes, family policy, and career development, drawing on rich register data from Germany and Norway. Key themes include how workplace structures, public policy, and firm behavior influence career trajectories, economic mobility, and workforce well-being. Contributions may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

  • Careers, promotions, wages and compensation, human capital
  • Family, social, and tax policies (e.g., childcare, parental leave, affirmative action, mentor programs)
  • Innovations and technology in the workplace
  • Firm organization, management practices, and corporate outcomes
  • Flexible work arrangements and work environment
  • Gender inequality and intersectional perspectives within labor markets

In cooperation with Norwegian School of Economics and Statistics Norway.

The workshop provides an opportunity for graduate students to present their ongoing work in the field of theoretical and empirical labor market research.

The IAB’s Graduate School (GradAB) and the FAU invites young researchers to its 17th 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. The workshop will focus on but not be limited to empirical research in the following fields:

  • Inequality, poverty, and intergenerational mobility
  • Labor supply, labor demand, and unemployment
  • Gender, family, and discrimination
  • Evaluation of labor market institutions and policies
  • Health, labor market integration, and job security
  • Globalization, international trade and labor markets
  • Education, qualification, and job tasks
  • Wage determination and life-cycle earnings
  • Migration and international labor markets
  • Establishments and the workplace
  • Regional labor markets and spatial disparities
  • Technological change and digitalization
  • The impact of climate change on the labor market

We welcome papers that apply quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods.

This worksphop is about using Linked employer-employee data to study worker and firm heterogeneity in wages as well as the importance of labour market sorting.

Linked employer-employee data offer a wide range of possibilities for researchers. For example, this type of data is used to understand the role of worker and firm quality in the development of wage inequality, as for example in Card, Heining, Kline (2013). A widely used approach to identify worker and firm quality was developed by Abowd, Kramarz and Margolis (1999).

Since then, many researchers have used the AKM model to study worker and firm heterogeneity in wages, as well as the importance of labour market sorting. While the model continues to be heavily used until today, recent developments discuss potential biases and propose corrections (for example Abowd et al, 2004; Andrews et al, 2008, 2012; Kline, Saggio, Sølvsten 2020; Bonhomme et al, 2023). As with the first edition of the workshop that took place in 2023, the purpose of the second edition continues to be to bring together researchers working on or interested in topics related to worker and firm quality to discuss current work.

The workshop brings together junior and senior researchers working on issues about Urban Labor Markets and Local Income Inequality.

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

This conference marks the third international conference of the ELMI Network (Network of European Labour Market Research Institutes).

Organised by the Institute for Structural Research (IBS), Institute for Employment Research (IAB), and Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), the international scientific conference Jobs, Skills, and Productivity in Structural Transformations aims to bring together leading scholars in the social sciences to address the challenges of the employability, skill mismatches and skill upgrading, social cohesion, and public policy responses to industrial and structural transitions.

The conference marks the third international conference of the ELMI Network (Network of European Labour Market Research Institutes), composed of 11 research institutes to facilitate the international exchange of best practices, ideas and people (www.elmi-network.eu). It promotes multi-disciplinary European research collaborations, and the exchange of best practices in data management, data access, and discussions with policy-makers and stakeholders.

We are particularly interested in papers that address the following issues:

  • Labour market consequences and long-term career trajectories of workers affected by deindustralisation and large structural shifts
  • The impact of green and digital transitions on skill demand and skill mismatches
  • Labour market consequences of military rearmament
  • Regional disparities in labour market adaptation to structural change
  • The role of education systems in preparing workers for structural transitions
  • The effectiveness of active labour market policies (ALMPs) in addressing structural transformations

The workshop accepts empirical contributions that assess the design, implementation and impact of labour market policies.

The research department Basic Income Support and Activation and the working group Social Protection in Changing Times at the IAB invite interested researchers to submit their extended abstracts or full papers to the 7th workshop ‘Evaluation of Passive and Active Labour Market Policies’.
The workshop provides an opportunity for researchers working on related subjects to present their
research, receive constructive feedback and meet other scholars in the field.

The workshop accepts empirical contributions that assess the design, implementation and impact
of passive and active labour market policies. Examples include:

  • Effects of passive and active labour market policies on labour market outcomes and wellbeing
  • Impact of automation and use of artificial intelligence within public employment services
  • Research on street-level bureaucracies, the behaviour of caseworkers and the role of public employment services
  • Econometric and statistical methods for the evaluation of passive and active labour market policies

The workshop will feature empirically-oriented research examining factors that impede the smooth functioning of labor markets and policy interventions.

The workshop will feature empirically-oriented research examining factors that impede the smooth functioning of labor markets and/or policy interventions that correct for or exacerbate these frictions. Specifically, the objective of the workshop is to discuss recent developments in the following research areas:

  • Job Search, Recruitment, Matching
  • Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market
  • Labor Shortages
  • Information Deficiencies in the Labor Market
  • Collective Bargaining, Unions, Codetermination
  • Minimum Wages
  • Employment Protection Legislation
  • Anti-Discrimination Legislation
  • Other Labor Market Frictions or Labor Market Institutions

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