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Veranstaltungsreihe: Workshops und Konferenzen (en)

.Das IAB organisiert eigenständig oder in Zusammenarbeit mit externen Partnern nationale und internationale Konferenzen und Workshops zu aktuellen Fragestellungen in der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung. Die Tagungen richten sich vorwiegend an Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, je nach Veranstaltung aber auch an Interessierte aus Politik und Praxis.

The workshop invites paper submissions on the interplay between labor markets and financial markets.

We invite paper submissions on the interplay between labor markets and financial markets. The workshop aims to bring together researchers working at the intersection of labor economics, financial economics, and macroeconomics. We are especially interested in how financial conditions, monetary policy, technological change, and structural transformations shape firms' employment and wage decisions, worker careers, and aggregate labor-market outcomes.

We welcome theoretical, empirical, and quantitative contributions. The workshop will bring together senior researchers with young economists. Submissions from advanced PhD students and post-docs are particularly encouraged.

We welcome submissions addressing issues including (but not limited to):

  • Firm financing and labor outcomes
  • Macroeconomic transmission to the labor market
  • Risk sharing between firms and workers
  • Financing of human capital, skills, and job reallocation
  • Technology, automation, and AI
  • Climate change and the green transition
  • Labor-market institutions and stabilization policies in the presence of financial frictions
  • Firms, workers, and inequality

This event brings together research from the disciplines of economics, sociology as well as statistics and data science.

The IAB’s and FAU’s joint graduate programme GradAB is inviting young researchers to its 18th interdisciplinary PhD workshop “Perspectives on (Un-)Employment”.

This event brings together qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods research from the disciplines of economics, sociology as well as statistics and data science. It provides an opportunity for junior researchers to present their ongoing work in the field of theoretical and empirical labor market research, and to receive feedback from leading scholars in the field.

The workshop will focus on, but not be limited to the following subfields:

  • Education, Qualification, and Social Mobility
  • Inequality and Poverty, Gender, Migration, and Health
  • Wages, Firms, and the Workplace
  • Labor Market Institutions and Policies
  • International Trade, Globalization, and Regional Labor Markets
  • Technological Change and Artificial Intelligence
  • Climate Change and its Impact on Labor Markets
  • Survey Statistics, Survey Methodology and Computational Social Science

The focus is on papers that analyze current transformation processes and examine their heterogeneous effects.

The German economy is going through a period of profound transformation. Technological change, decarbonization and demographic developments are fundamentally changing labor markets – albeit not uniformly, but with significant differences between regions, sectors and groups of workers.

At the same time, structural change is not a new phenomenon. Past transformation processes provide important insights into how labor markets respond to disruptions and the role institutions and policy can play in managing these adaptation processes.

The workshop brings these perspectives together: the focus is on papers that analyze current transformation processes, examine their heterogeneous effects, and/or draw lessons from past transformations for today’s economic policy challenges.

The aim is to exchange up-to-date research that provides new insights into transformation processes and illuminates their economic policy implications.

Special issue of the workshop:
Selected papers from the workshop may be invited for submission for aplanned Special Issue in the Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für
Nationalökonomie und Statistik).
When submitting to the workshop, authors are asked to indicate whether they are interested in submitting to the Special Issue at a later date.
Submission for the Special Issue takes place separately until 31.12.2026 and is subject to the journal’s regular peer review process.

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.

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.

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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