Workshops und Konferenzen (en) Archive - IAB - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung

Transformation pressure in the labour market: heterogeneity, adjustment processes, and lessons for economic policy

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.

2nd Workshop on Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market

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

7th Forum „Higher Education and the Labour Market“ (HELM)

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.

Family Policy, Careers and Workplace Technology

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.

17th interdisciplinary PhD-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.

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.

Evaluation of Passive and Active Labour Market Policies

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

Institutions and Frictions in the Labor Market

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

The Economic Impacts of AI on Work and Labor Markets

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.

ELMI Policy Round Table on ‘Immigrant Integration Services’

Discussion about Immigrant Integration Services

We invite you to the next ELMI (Network of European Labour Market Research Institutes) Policy Round Table on 'Immigrant Integration Services'.

International ELMI Conference ‘Securing Skilled Workforces in Europe’

IAB and the Network of European Labour Market Research Institutes (ELMI) organise a policy-oriented conference on `Securing Skilled Workforces in Europe´ in Brussels.

IAB and the Network of European Labour Market Research Institutes (ELMI) organise a policy-oriented conference on 'Securing Skilled Workforces in Europe' in Brussels on October 1st and 2nd, 2024. The event is open to EU policy makers and representatives of the European Commission as well as the Directorates-General.