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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 focuses on technology, trade, and demographic changes and the ways they interact with employment, wages, and participation in the labor market, with a particular emphasis on the role of institutions. Understanding these relationships is key in assessing the performance of the labor market and for the design of effective labor market policies.

The conference will also host the 6th user conference of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), bringing together researchers who work with the data provided by the FDZ, and facilitating exchange between researchers and FDZ staff.

Job retention schemes (Kurzarbeit) have been a key policy tools to contain the employment and social fallout of the COVID-19 crisis in a number of OECD countries. By May 2020, job retention schemes supported about 50 million jobs across the OECD, about ten times as many as during the global financial crisis of 2008-09.

The schemes prevented a surge in unemployment, mitigated financial hardship and stabilized demand. However, as the COVID-19 crisis moved into its second wave, deeper structural changes are becoming more likely. Job retention schemes should respond to this new situation, become more targeted and attention should shift towards supporting workers, rather than their jobs.

Based on an OECD policy brief, this online Seminar will give an overview on the use of job retention schemes in OECD countries and discuss in detail the schemes in France, Germany and the Netherlands.

The Institute of Employment Research (IAB), the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), and the Labour and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER) are pleased to announce a workshop on machine learning in economics. Empirical research in economics typically focuses on the unbiased estimation of causal effects. In contrast, statistics and computer science place more value on prediction (especially out-of-sample) and data-driven selection of models and variables. So far, only few studies apply these methods in empirical economic research, but their importance is growing. This holds in particular with the increasing availability of big data for economic research. The two-day workshop seeks to bring together researchers who apply machine learning methods in the following fields: Labor economics, economics of education and health economics.

Aims and Topics

During Germany’s EU Council Presidency in 2020, the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) will host an interdisciplinary labour market conference. This conference will focus on labour market transitions and on the evaluation of policies that governments implement to smooth such transitions.

Collection of abstracts (Abstracts der Vorträge)

Programme highlights

The conference features keynotes by Jutta Allmendinger, President of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of Educational Sociology and Labour Market Research at the Humboldt University Berlin, and Christian Dustmann, Professor of Economics at the University College London and Director of CReAM – Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration. Two other keynotes will be presented by Dennis Radtke, Member of the European Parliament, and Prof László Andor (PhD) of Corvinus University of Budapest and former EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion. The conference also includes a political key note and a panel discussion with Dr Nicola Brandt, Head of OECD Berlin Centre, Christian Dustmann und Bernd Fitzenberger, Director of IAB and Professor of Econometrics at the Humboldt University Berlin about “Vocational Training and labor market transitions: The future model for Europe?”