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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 conference aims to bring together experiences and research results on different aspects of practice integration.

Including practical work and work-based learning in higher education curricula has become increasingly popular, both to increase graduate employability and to improve the permeability between vocational and university education.

The implementation of practical experience in higher education is country-specific and takes different forms, from internships to integrated curricula as in the “dual-study” model of German universities of cooperative education.

The conference aims to bring together experiences and research results on different aspects of practice integration from various countries. We are particularly interested in:

  • Stocktaking: What forms of practice integration exist in the higher education systems of different countries? What are their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages? Is practice integration increasing, and how do the developments compare between different countries?
  • Student characteristics: Which types of students (e.g., high-achieving; non-academic background) are attracted to practice-oriented study programmes? What are their motives for choosing them?
  • Effects: How does work experience and practice orientation in higher education affect students’ skills, confidence, and motivation? Compared to less practice-oriented study programmes, are there differences in final grades, study-to-work transitions, job prospects, and income?
  • Internationalisation: How can internationalisation be implemented with regard to practice orientation in higher education? What are the special needs of international students?
  • Measurement and recognition of achievements: How can student achievements in practice phases be measured and integrated into the academic system of exams and grades? What are the problems in aligning practical and academic evaluation?
  • Cooperation of stakeholders: How can the cooperation between universities and stakeholders, e.g. vocational schools and companies, be improved? What formal framework is required?

Moreover, the conference offers sessions with a more general perspective on “Higher Education and the Labour Market”, for example on returns to tertiary education, university dropout, graduates’ placement on the labour market, and regional mobility of graduates.

This two-day conference seeks to bring together researchers addressing different aspects of social policy.

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.

This workshop aims to improve the knowledge on welfare and unemployment dynamics and social security under different institutional settings. It is also about the question of how benefit recipients can be helped to leave benefit receipt permanently.

Demographic change, digitalisation and the need to achieve carbon-neutral growth not only have macro-economic consequences, but also have an impact on individual employment prospects and careers. Flexible employment might offer additional employment opportunities, but might also lead to interrupted employment careers with workers being less well protected against social risks and against old-age poverty. Technological change might decrease the labour demand particularly for medium and low-skill occupations. This might affect individual employment stability. Changing working conditions may demand new requirements on employees' qualifications and skills, leading to qualification policies reacting more flexibly to new requirements. The recent crises have also shown that certain population groups have limited access to benefits in existing social security systems. This particularly holds for those with non-standard employment (i.e. solo-self-employed, marginally employed). Conditionality and demanding elements are prevalent in most social security and minimum income systems. It is vital to understand consequences of these principles for the take-up of benefits as well as the employment prospects and social mobility of recipients.

Against this background, this workshop aims to improve the knowledge on welfare and unemployment dynamics and social security under different institutional settings. It is also about the question of how benefit recipients can be helped to leave benefit receipt permanently.

The workshop is open to empirical and policy-oriented single country studies or international comparisons from sociology, economics or political science based on quantitative empirical data. Contributions using different methods, for example sequence data analysis, duration analysis, causal analysis, and methods of policy analyses and microsimulation on one or more of the following questions are very welcome:

  • How do the mentioned structural changes (e.g. technological change) affect individual employment prospects and economic situation? What is the impact on social inequality?
  • What are typical labour market trajectories for different groups of unemployed individuals (e.g. vulnerable groups)?
  • What role does atypical employment play? Have atypical employment relationships proved successful? How can upward mobility succeed?
  • What role do education and training play? What are their long-run effects?
  • Which experiences did welfare states make with the strategies of activation and social investment?
  • Is providing a basic income instead of insurance based social security an adequate response to the trends?

During the tour, three excellent job market candidates in Labour Economics, Pauline Carry, Elio Nimier-David and Raoul van Maarseveen will present their job market papers.

The IAB is excited to host one station of the EALE Job Market Tour 2023 on Wednesday, April 19th 2023. The EALE Job Market Tour is an annual event devised to promote research and interaction among young scholars from European institutions. The event takes place after the job market, but the candidates are selected beforehand by a committee based on their paper and participation at the EALE conference.

During the tour, three excellent job market candidates in Labour Economics, Pauline Carry (Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST)), Elio Nimier-David (CREST) and Raoul van Maarseveen (Uppsala University) will present their job market papers. PhD students, junior and senior staff are welcome to attend.

The event also includes a keynote by Wolfgang Dauth (IAB) and a presentation of the IAB data by Dana Müller (IAB). With the event, we aim to foster exchange between the job market candidates and researchers from the IAB as well as local institutions.

The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is pleased to host a workshop on imperfect competition in the labor market from 26-27 May. Topics that will be covered at the workshop are:

  • Models of monopsonistic and oligopsonistic competition and their empirical assessment
  • Quantifying the elasticities of labor supply, recruits and separations to the firm
  • The role of firms in wage-setting
  • Outside options and wages
  • Employment concentration and wages
  • Rent sharing
  • Policies that may remedy imperfect competition, e.g. minimum wage and collective bargaining

This workshop invites empirical contributions using either the IAB Establishment Panel, one of its derivatives (LPP/LIAB), or other matched employer-employee data.

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the IAB Establishment Panel Survey, this workshop invites empirical contributions using either the IAB Establishment Panel, one of its derivatives (LPP/LIAB), or other matched employer-employee data. Research projects from all areas of labour market research are welcome, including personnel economics, sociology and economics of vocational education and training, industrial relations, or industrial economics. Papers may address research questions in any of these areas as well as methodological questions.

The conference aims to discuss the meaning of gender, gender roles and gender relations in the context of migration and flight and to reflect on possible solutions in practice.

With the war in Ukraine, the topic of migration and gender is (again) present in the public media. Especially at the beginning of the coverage of Russia's war of aggression, images of women with children in need of care dominated, seeking protection in Ukraine's neighboring countries and EU member states, including Germany. The EU's decision to apply the so-called mass influx directive for the first time is associated with new social inequalities in regard to other groups of immigrants, including racial exclusion at border crossings.

Due to the increased relevance of activating integration policy for different immigrant groups, not only in Germany, policies started to focus on labor market integration of female and male refugees and the participation of refugee girls and boys in education and training. The labor market integration of refugees is also associated with the discourse on a shortage of skilled workers, the Skilled Worker Immigration Act that came into force in 2020, and the reform proposals currently being discussed by the German government that may increase the chances of migrant women and men entering the German labor market. For female migrants, integration into the labor market after moving usually takes more time than for male migrants. The visible differences in migration circumstances and integration trajectories of immigrant men and women highlight the need for gender-specific research. In addition to occupational and labor market perspectives, there are multiple research gaps on the relationship between gender and migration.

The conference aims to discuss the meaning of gender, gender roles and gender relations in the context of migration and flight and to reflect on possible solutions in practice. To this end, we bring together researchers from sociology, demography, economics, political science, and law. In particular, we welcome submissions on the following topics, but submissions outside of the focus areas are also welcome:

  • Integration in education and the labor market
  • Legal and institutional framework for participation
  • Linguistic and cultural integration
  • Health and illness
  • Consequences of the COVID-19 crisis
  • Subjective experiences of flight, migration and arrival
  • Queer and non-binary perspectives
  • Intersectional research approaches
  • Power relations in asylum, migration, and labor market regimes 

It is a pleasure for us to announce the program of the 6th User Conference of the IAB-FDZ, which will be held virtually on 21-22 November 2022.
The conference will feature sessions focusing on regional economics, human capital and the family context.

There will also be a special session dedicated to research using the LPP.

We are looking forward to two days of excellent research using IAB data, and we invite you to join us. You can register via Xing.
For more information and registration visit: https://www.xing-events.com/UserConferenceFDZ.html

Jointly organized with DGS

Jointly organized with: Spatial Mobility Working Group of the Urban and Regional Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS)

In the context of the digital transformation driven by COVID-19-induced changes in the labor market, educational system, and society in general, processes of spatial mobility are as relevant as ever. For instance, the widespread use of telework is decoupling individuals’ and households’ decisions about where to live and where to work. COVID-19 and lockdowns changed perceptions of what constitutes desirable and appropriate places to work, study, and live.

The influx of refugees into European countries following 2015 entailed many newcomers whose decisions about where to work and where to live are shaping their host countries in many respects. Research on refugees’ spatial mobility within host countries is therefore indispensable, especially in light of current events following the military conflict in Ukraine.

There have been significant methodological advances in recent years, with new data types being used for spatial mobility research. In particular, small-scale neighborhood-level and geolocated data allow for granulated analysis, while digital trace data from smartphones, sensors, or the Internet provide new and unique information. Combining these data with established survey or administrative data opens up promising new avenues for research.

In addition to these topics, the workshop will focus on a broad range of issues related to research on spatial mobilities, including internal migration, commuting, residential multi-locality, student mobility, virtual mobility, and others. Timely research on changing spatial mobility patterns and their implications for existing and emerging social inequalities is crucial. The workshop aims to bring together current research from sociologists, labor economists, demographers, geographers, and scholars from related fields.

A non-exhaustive list of topics is:

  • Spatial mobility in the labor market and the educational system
  • Mobility decisions of the unemployed
  • Gendered and household mobility patterns
  • Spatial mobility and social networks
  • Spatial mobility in the context of neighborhoods
  • (Im-)mobility patterns and mobility decision-making
  • Applications of innovative data sources, like geo-coded, linked, or digital trace data
  • New methods for analyzing spatial mobility

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