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Mit dem Teilhabechancengesetz wurden zum Jahresbeginn 2019 mit den § 16i und e SGB II neue Möglichkeiten zur Förderung der sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung von Langzeitarbeitslosen eingeführt. Insbesondere der § 16i fand aufgrund der Zuschusshöhe und der Fokussierung auf Menschen, die sehr lange arbeitslos waren, große Aufmerksamkeit. Dies galt umso mehr, als die Soziale Teilhabe explizit als Ziel neben der Vermittlung in Arbeit genannt wurde und vergleichbare Regelinstrumente über Jahre nicht verfügbar waren. Einige Beobachter sprachen bereits von der Schaffung eines „Sozialen Arbeitsmarktes“ oder gar einem „Paradigmenwechsel“ im SGB II.
Das IAB evaluiert die Einführung des §16i. Die Zwischenergebnisse werden im Rahmen der Tagung vorgestellt, kritisch diskutiert und um die Perspektiven der gesellschaftlichen, administrativen und politischen Praxis ergänzt. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit finden dabei die Fragen:

  • Welche Rolle haben die beiden Zielsetzungen Soziale Teilhabe und Arbeitsmarktintegration in der Praxis?
  • Inwiefern wurden die Zielsetzungen erreicht?
  • Wie wurden Coaching und Weiterbildung umgesetzt und ggf. künftig weiter verbessert?
  • In welchem Maße haben Frauen und Männer von dem Instrument profitiert – und warum?
  • Wie wird das Verhältnis beider Instrumente zu anderen Instrumenten im SGB II bestimmt?
  • Wie kann gegebenenfalls die künftige Finanzierung des Instrumentes sichergestellt werden und wie können hierfür die aus ihm resultierenden Einsparungen bei den Leistungen zur Sicherung des Lebensunterhaltes genutzt werden?
  • Ist das Förderinstrumentarium des SGB II ausreichend, um Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit erfolgreich zu begegnen?

Sie sind herzlich eingeladen, sich an der Diskussion dieser Fragen zu beteiligen.

​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.

Job adverts include detailed descriptions of skills, knowledge and behaviours relevant to carry out occupational and professional roles in firms. In addition, they (occasionally) show earnings information, provide firm characteristics and contextualise to local labour markets. Such data, validly extracted from job adverts, are an invaluable resource to inform education and labour market policy about crucial aspects of matching job seekers and vacancies and, together with further data sources, likely returns from skills investment and potential skills shortages affecting different sectors or localities in the economy.

With improving information technologies, online job search engines grew since the 1980s. Since then they created huge amounts of data, which can be used to provide systematic descriptions of job skills at a granular level and to understand changes affecting occupational roles. However, the use of such sources for research in economics, business and education only emerged recently with better availability of off-the-shelves packages for text analytics allowing individual researchers to navigate the complexities of unstructured “big” data and to derive high-quality structured information from millions of vacancies. And finally, the analytical work for descriptions and econometric modelling offers new opportunities and challenges as with many “Big Data” applications.

Our workshop aims at interested researchers working with such data, with a focus on the analysis of knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to jobs. A non-exhaustive list of topics includes:

  • Understanding broader or specific aspects of skills from vacancy data, for example specific to tasks, jobs, sectors or localities
  • Longitudinal studies on changes in occupational profiles and skills requirements
  • Topical research about skills changes, e.g. resulting from decarbonisation or increasing digitalisation of job roles
  • Understanding skills relevant to making transitions into the labour market, for example data used in vocational education institutions and universities from placements
  • Methodological innovations in the work with large data from online vacancies

We study a cross-border commuting reform that granted German workers in the German-Swiss border region access to the high-wage Swiss labour market. This exogenous increase in German workers‘ outside option led to an increase in average wages paid by German establishments in the border region. But this wage increase is not homogenous across worker types. First, high-skilled workers enjoyed a higher wage increase than low-skilled workers, consistent with a stronger increase in Swiss-labor demand for high-skilled German workers. Second, the positive wage effects only accrue to men in the border region, but not women, consistent with gender differences in the willingness to commute. The outside option clearly seems to play an important role in wage negotiations and its wage effects can be heterogeneous.

The 5nd Workshop on Spatial Dimensions of the Labour Market is jointly organized by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and focuses on a broad range of topics related to regional labour markets.

This year, a special focus is on aspects revolving around the Covid19 crisis. COVID-19 is hitting local labour markets at a time when megatrends related to globalisation, digitalisation, technological change, are reshaping the way we live and work. The pandemic causes enormous economic and social disruptions which might affect regional labour markets in various ways in the short and long term.

The two organizing institutions, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), and Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), aim to bring together frontier research of labour economists, regional economists, sociologists, geographers and scholars from related fields. Theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented contributions are very welcome. The workshop provides a forum that allows scientists to network while fostering the exchange of research ideas and results. 

The workshop has a special focus on the spatial dimension of the consequences of the pandemic and changing economic activity. Apart from this interest, a non-exhaustive list of topics is:

  • COVID-19 pandemic, it’s impact on local labour markets
  • Telecommuting
  • Spatial distribution of activities, disparities and inequalities
  • Spatial mismatch, unemployment and spatial job search
  • Mobility of labour and imperfect labour markets
  • Location decisions and urban amenities
  • Neighbourhoods, proximity, and urban density
  • Regional dimensions of wage determination
  • Evaluation of regional labour market policy and urban or regional policy
  • Effects of globalization and technological change
  • Methodological and data-driven innovations (e.g. use of geo-coded data)

Die positive Entwicklung des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes bis zum Frühjahr 2020 wurde jäh durch die Covid-19 Pandemie unterbrochen. Durch umfangreiche Stützungsmaßnahmen, vor allem Kurzarbeit, konnte jedoch ein stärkerer Rückgang der sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung und ein dramatischer Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit verhindert werden. Schon 2021 übertraf die sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung wieder das Vorkrisenniveau. In der Covid-19 Pandemie ist aber auch das Erwerbspersonenpotenzial zurückgegangen. Derzeit gibt es auf breiter Front Fachkräfteengpässe und in vielen Bereichen besteht sogar ein starker Arbeitskräftemangel. Zentrale Ursachen sind die demografische Entwicklung und die Herausforderungen der wirtschaftlichen Transformationsprozesse, wie Digitalisierung und ökologische Transformation. Die Folgen des Ukrainekrieges und eine Umsteuerung in der Energieversorgung verstärken die Anpassungsnotwendigkeiten. Daher sind Maßnahmen zur quantitativen und qualifikatorischen Stärkung des Erwerbspersonenpotenzials und dessen Anpassungsfähigkeit notwendig. Ziel dieser Maßnahmen sollte die Steigerung der Erwerbstätigkeit, die weitere Qualifizierung von Erwerbspersonen und die Stärkung der beruflichen Ausbildung sein. Vor diesem Hintergrund diskutiert der 18. IWH/IAB-Workshop zur Arbeitsmarktpolitik die Auswirkungen von Demografie und Transformationsprozessen auf Betriebe und Erwerbspersonen sowie geeignete politische Maßnahmen, um negativen Folgen dieser Entwicklungen auf das Arbeitskräfteangebot entgegenzuwirken.

Willkommen sind Beiträge insbesondere zu folgenden Aspekten:

  • Arbeitsmarkteffekte von demografischer Entwicklung, technologischem Wandel und ökologischer Transformation
  • Veränderungen in den Qualifikationsanforderungen und (beruflichen) Tätigkeitsstrukturen im Arbeitsmarkt
  • Berufliche Weiterbildung von Beschäftigten oder Arbeitslosen
  • Mismatcharbeitslosigkeit trotz Arbeitskräfteknappheit?
  • Arbeitsplatzmobilität und berufliche Mobilität
  • Krise der dualen Ausbildung, Anpassungen im Ausbildungssystem
  • Arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen zur Stärkung von Qualifizierung und Erwerbstätigkeit und zur Bewältigung der Transformationsprozesse

Digital technologies can be both labour-saving and labour-augmenting, thereby changing the division of labour between humans and machines. While an increasing range of tasks can be automated, new tasks arise at the same time. This digital transformation is likely to interact with the ecological transformation towards a climate-friendly economy, both of which will shape the future of work. On top of that, the Covid-19 pandemic induced fast changes in the organisation and location of work. The aim of this conference is to bring together economists, sociologists and researchers from related fields to discuss frontier research on labour market effects of processes associated with the digital and ecological transformation. Special focus lies on the following questions:

  • How does the division of tasks between workers and machines develop?
  • Do green jobs differ from non-green jobs in terms of skills and human capital?
  • How does the digital and ecological transformation affect labour market, firm and individual outcomes?
  • How do job contents and tasks evolve and how do workers adapt?
  • What is the role of education and training in preparing the workforce for new knowledge and skills requirements?
  • How does the Covid-19 pandemic affect both types of transformations? And what does the pandemic reveal about the interactions between gender, education, work requirements and tasks?
  • How can policy cushion potential negative outcomes related to these transformations?
  • How do we measure the digital and ecological transformation and categorise related tasks?
  • What can we learn from new (big) data sources like job advertisements?

The conference is open to all areas of microsimulation, including static and dynamic microsimulation, agent-based models, behavioural models, and all applied and methodological contributions related to microsimulation. Moreover, there will also be thematic streams during the conference (organised together with partners in brackets):

  • Labour markets and welfare policies (Dr. Kerstin Bruckmeier, Institute for Employment Research IAB)
  • Comparative analysis on taxes and benefits (Salvador Barrios, PhD, Joint Research Centre, European Commission)
  • Dynamic microsimulation (Prof. Ralf Münnich, MikroSim FOR2559)
  • Health (Ieva Skarda, PhD, Centre for Health Economics at the University of York)
  • Agriculture and environment (Prof. Cathal O’Donoghue, National University of Ireland, Galway; University of Maastricht) 

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 and on labor markets during the COVID-19 crisis. Understanding these relationships is key in assessing the performance of the labor market and for the design of effective labor market policies. We invite empirical and theoretical contributions on these topics from all areas of economics and sociology with a focus on labor, education, health, or human resource management.

The conference will be held in-person. It is sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Priority Program 1764 “The German Labor Market in a Globalized World” and will also mark the end of the program.

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With the COVID-19 pandemic in its third year, the question how the former has affected labour markets and economic policies continues to be of prime importance. Has the pandemic led to lasting changes in the organization of work? Which workers, firms or regions will benefit from such changes? Thus far, research has mainly focussed on the pandemic’s initial impact. Much less is known about its effects in the medium run and if early adjustments have turned into permanent changes. As more data is becoming available, it is now possible to assess how individual labour market biographies have been affected; how firms adapted to disruptions in their production processes; how the effects of the pandemic differed between regions, sectors or occupations; and whether certain policies have been changed permanently as a result of the crisis. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers to present and discuss current work on the labour market consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  1. How have individual labour market biographies been affected by the pandemic?
  2. Do pandemic effects differ between groups of individuals and have there been changes in labour market inequality?
  3. Has the pandemic led to labour market scarring?
  4. How have school-to-work transitions, entries into training or transitions from training into employment been affected?
  5. How has the allocation of household or care tasks changed during the pandemic?
  6. Has occupational mobility changed as a result of the pandemic?
  7. How have firms responded to the pandemic?
  8. How has the adoption of working-from-home schemes affected firms’ production processes?
  9. Has the pandemic led to more investment in digital technologies and how has this affected the workers at the firm?
  10. Has occupation- or task-specific labour demand changed during the pandemic?
  11. How has short-term work been used during the pandemic?
  12. Have firms adjusted their (international) supply chains?
  13. Have urban labour markets become less attractive?
  14. Have regional labour market disparities increased as a result of the pandemic?