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Veranstaltungsreihe: Konferenzen und Workshops

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.

Fachkräftemangel – und in vielen Bereichen auch genereller Arbeitskräftemangel – prägt zunehmend die OECD-Arbeitsmärkte. Doch das verschafft nicht allen Erwerbstätigen eine gute Beschäftigung. Die Pandemie könnte sich gerade für Jüngere, Frauen und Eingewanderte nachteilig ausgewirkt haben und die Ungleichheit am Arbeitsmarkt verstärken. Was sind die Ursachen und welche Lösungen gibt es? Der jüngst erschienene OECD-Beschäftigungsausblick verweist auf die Marktmacht einiger Arbeitgeber, wachsende Unterschiede im Hinblick auf Produktivität und Lohnniveaus von Unternehmen und ein Auseinanderfallen zwischen individuellen Kompetenzen und Arbeitsmarkterfordernissen. Er zeigt aber auch auf, dass gut konzipierte Arbeitszeitverkürzungen bei vollem Lohnausgleich dem Wohlergehen und der Beschäftigung dienen können. Die Runde diskutiert, welche politischen Maßnahmen dazu beitragen, gute Arbeit für alle zu schaffen. 

​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.

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed higher education in numerous ways. Not only do faculties face new challenges, but the pandemic also affected various aspects of students' academic and social life. Among these are:

  • University entrance: Study decisions may have changed under pandemic conditions with respect to both take-up of university studies and subject choice. Moreover, starting at the university may involve particular obstacles during a pandemic.
  • Social and academic integration: During times of distance learning, students have fewer opportunities to interact face to face with fellow students and academic staff. The more demanding communication and lack of exchange may hamper integration.
  • Study processes: The participation in courses and learning have become more isolated, which may impede many learning formats such as study groups. Students’ and universities’ strategies to meet these challenges – and their success – are of particular interest.
  • Students’ employment and financial situation: Students were among the first to lose their jobs at the beginning of the pandemic. As many students rely on a job to finance their education, they may suffer consequences for their grades and ultimately for study success.
  • Career counselling: The pandemic may have affected not only career guidance before starting university but also counselling services at universities. Both the administration and format of counselling as well as its contents may have been adjusted.
  • Labour market entry: The prospects for entering the labour market after graduation may have changed. The pandemic may have increased employers’ demand for certain subjects and decreased the demand for others, thus affecting graduates’ labour market prospects.

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.

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) 

Wie kann im Rahmen der Internationalisierungsstrategien von Universitäten und außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter angemessen berücksichtigt werden? Wie können potenzialreiche internationale Wissenschaftlerinnen nach Deutschland geholt und gefördert werden? Wie können gleichzeitig inländische Wissenschaftlerinnen auf den internationalen Markt vorbereitet werden?Das Barcamp hinterfragt die entwickelten Maßnahmen zur Internationalisierung an deutschen Forschungsinstitutionen auf ihre gleichstellungspolitischen Chancen und Risiken hin.

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.