The IAB’s Graduate School (GradAB) invites young researchers to its 14th 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
Call for Papers
Submission
We invite Ph.D. students to submit an extended abstract (maximum of 500 words) or a full (preliminary) paper in pdf format to IAB.PHD-WORKSHOP@iab.de.
- The submission should include your contact information and CV
- Please use the format lastname_firstname_paper.pdf
- Please name up to five keywords (or JEL classification) at the beginning of your submission to categorize your research
Deadline
The deadline for submission is 14 October 2022. We will notify you about whether your paper has been accepted by 8 November 2022.
Travel costs
For presenters without funding, a limited number of travel grants are available. Please indicate along with your submission whether you would like to apply for a travel grant. We will provide more information about the application with the notifications of acceptance.