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The workshop aims to bring together social scientists to discuss the most recent findings related to migration and integration.

Since February 2022 millions of people from Ukraine were forced to flee their homes to seek protection in less waraffected regions of the country and abroad, others have stayed under the war-related risks. Europe experienced the largest influx of refugees since the second world war.

Unlike labor migrants, refugees have no time to prepare for migration and, thus, face particular challenges in their host countries including limited knowledge of the local institutions, a lack of language skills and social networks as well as traumatic experiences that may have long-lasting effects on people’s lives. At the same time, the socioeconomic circumstances of the men and women who remained in Ukraine changed drastically, affecting their employment, their families and other areas of life.

The workshop aims to bring together social scientists to discuss the most recent findings related to migration and integration, labor market and family outcomes of Ukrainian refugees, stayers and IDPs and encourages contributions
on the following topics:

  • selection of refugees, decision to stay, emigrate and return
  • family and labor market dynamics in Ukraine
  • refugee socioeconomic integration
  • health, social networks, and social inequality
  • gender, paid and unpaid work
  • refugee uncertainty and its outcomes
  • ethnic discrimination of refugees
  • human capital investment and skills transfer of refugees
  • effects on home and host countries’ economy and population

This conference is to discuss the economic impacts of frontier technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and green technologies.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), green technologies, and other frontier technologies are reshaping economies, workplaces, and environmental outcomes globally. This ongoing transformation presents both opportunities and challenges at macroeconomic, organizational, and individual levels, influencing productivity, employment structures, economic growth, and sustainability. Institutions and policies play pivotal roles in unfolding these impacts, including efforts to accelerate the greening of the economy and to adapt to new technologies across various economic sectors.

The TASKS VII conference brings together economists, sociologists, and policymakers to discuss the economic impacts of frontier technologies, focusing on productivity, institutions, and micro-level and macro-level adjustments.

Legal rights continue to differ between women and men, particularly in developing countries. In this paper, we examine whether economic integration can improve gender equality by the law during working life. We design a novel instrumental variable strategy based on regional waves of globalization, which serve as strong exogenous predictors of national globalization trends. Our main estimate suggests that an increase in globalization by one relative standard deviation, equivalent to a permanent transition from Indonesia to the United States, is associated with an 12.1% increase in gender equality, measured by the extent to which men and women are treated equally by law. We also find that this effect is almost entirely driven by de facto globalization. Linking globalization to more than 300,000 individuals from over 100 countries, we provide evidence for a microfoundation of the macroeconomic effects.

The effectiveness of the minimum wage on gender wage differences is examined.

With its introduction in 2015, the national minimum wage intends to benefit primarily low-wage workers in Germany. I examine the effectiveness of the minimum wage on gender wage gaps of full-time workers among the lower half of the wage distribution. Using administrative data, distinct regional differences in the extent of wage differentials and responses to the minimum wage occur. Overall, wage gaps between men and women at the 10th percentile decrease by 2.46 and 6.34 percentage points in the West and East of Germany after 2015. Applying counterfactual wage distributions, I provide new evidence that the introduction of the minimum wage decreases wage differentials by 60% to 95%. Group-specific analyses show various responses on the basis of age, educational level and occupational activity. Counterfactual aggregate Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions indicate a decrease in discriminatory remuneration structures in the West of Germany resulting from the introduced minimum wage.

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 16th 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:

  • Labor supply, labor demand, and unemployment
  • Evaluation of labor market institutions and policies
  • Education, qualification, and job tasks
  • Wage determination and life-cycle earnings
  • Gender, family, and labor market discrimination
  • Inequality, poverty, and intergenerational mobility
  • Migration and international labor markets
  • Regional labor markets and spatial disparities
  • Impact of technological change, digitalization, and climate change on the labor market

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

This paper studies the allocation of time among workers across jobs that vary in their remote intensity.

The proportion of employees who work remotely has surged from under 5% to over 60% between January to March 2020, converging to roughly 28% of days working from home versus in the office as of 2023. Motivated by these large structural shifts in the nature of work, this paper studies the allocation of time among workers across jobs that vary in their remote intensity. Drawing on the American Time Use Survey between 2019 and 2022, I document three main results. First, time allocated to leisure increased and to work decreased among more remote jobs with no significant change in home production. Second, these changes were concentrated among males, singles, and those without children. Third, these declines in labor supply cannot explain the recent decline in productivity; in contrast, sectors with greater remote work intensity exhibited greater productivity growth. In addition, I will also present results from a complementary paper that draws on employee engagement and labor market data from over 70,000 workers. While there is a positive association between always WFH and satisfaction, it vanishes after controlling for employee compensation, occupation, demographics, and workplace environment characteristics (e.g., feeling appreciated at work). Employees who always WFH also have a higher intention to leave their job than employees who never work from home. In contrast, less frequent WFH arrangements relate to higher satisfaction but no difference in intention to leave, and their impact is limited relative to workplace environment characteristics.

We encourage contributions on these specific topics but also appreciate more general contributions on labor market-related research.

Aims and Topics

The labor market is subject to constant change. To meet the challenges of developments such as technological and ecological transformation, the shortage of skilled workers, or demographic change, education and training are becoming increasingly important. The workshop ‘Training, Education and the Labor Market’ focuses on education and training in the context of such societal challenges. We invite researchers to submit papers that study these developments with respect to educational decisions before and during working life, transitions out of and into education, returns to education, the role of institutional settings, as well as the relationship between occupations and education.
We encourage contributions on these specific topics but also appreciate more general contributions on labor market-related research that deals with the areas of vocational training and education, further training and higher education. While the following list is not exhaustive, we are looking for papers that address any of the following topics from a labor market perspective:


Research perspectives on education and training

  • Regional and national perspectives
  • Individual and firm perspectives

Characteristics of (non-)participants in education and training

  • Gender
  • Migration
  • Social Background
  • Occupations

Educational segments

  • School-to-work transitions
  • Vocational education and training
  • Higher education
  • Further training

The HELM conference combines contributions with a general perspective on ‘Higher Education and the Labour Market’. Deadline for submissions: April 8, 2024

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

This year’s focus topic “The Bologna Process After 25 Years: Continuities, Changes, and Evaluations” commemorates the signing of the Bologna Declaration on June 19, 1999, which initiated one of the most far-reaching reform processes in European Higher Education. The reform was accompanied by e.g. improvements in comparability and mutual recognition of degrees and study credits, easier mobility of students, and the harmonisation of study structures, which for many countries implied the introduction of a two-cycle system (BA/MA). We, therefore, welcome contributions that bring together experiences and research results on different aspects of the Bologna reform process. We are particularly interested in:

  • Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees on the Labour Market: With the introduction of these two degree types that were new in many European countries, an important question is how BA and MA compare on the labour market, e.g., regarding labour market entry, wages, unemployment risk, or career prospects.
  • Continuing and New Inequalities: In many countries, changing from a single-cycle to a two-cycle qualification structure brought new or additional social selection. We welcome contributions that evaluate such (potential) selection at the micro-level, either within or across countries.
  • Student Mobility (Before and) After Bologna: As the Bologna reform included numerous elements that facilitated international mobility of students, we are interested in contributions examining effects of the reform on overall student mobility and (changes in) effects of mobility on educational or labour market outcomes.
  • Differential Impact of the Reform in International Comparison: Given that the elements introduced by the reform, in particular, the two-cycle qualification structure, entailed a different extent of changes to European countries, we welcome papers that provide a comparison of such differential impact of the reform or that analyse the specificities of individual countries.
  • Attainment of Goals of the Reform: For some countries, additional goals were linked to the Bologna reform. In Germany, for example, the reform was expected to increase employability and to substantially reduce the study duration of students. Moreover, it was assumed that after the reform, most students would enter the labour market directly after obtaining their BA. We welcome contributions that evaluate such additional goals at the national or European level.

Using French administrative data we estimate the wage gap distribution between in-house and temporary agency workers.

Using French administrative data we estimate the wage gap distribution between in-house and temporary agency workers working in the same establishment and the same occupation. The average wage gap is about 3%, but the gap is negative in more than 25% of establishment × occupation cells. We develop and estimate a search and matching model which shows that the wage gap depends on the cost of job vacancies, on labor market frictions and on the labor management costs of temporary agencies for temp workers and user firms for in-house workers. Only a portion of the wage gap is efficient. A simple formula allows for estimating the taxes and subsidies that eliminate its inefficient component.

The IAB and the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invite doctoral students to attend the 15th interdisciplinary Ph.D. Workshop.

The workshop took place from January 18th to 19th 2024. Read the complete event report for the PhD Workshop 2024.

The IAB’s Graduate School (GradAB) and the FAU invites young researchers to its 15th 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

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