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4th Forum „Higher Education and the Labour Market“ (HELM)

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.

Megatrends in times of Covid

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)

Qualifizierung und Arbeitskräfteknappheit in Zeiten des Wandels

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

TASKS VI: The Digital and Ecological Transformation of the Labour Market

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?

European Meeting of the International Microsimulation Association 2022

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)

Total Global? Strategien für eine geschlechtergerechte Internationalisierung der Wissenschaft

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 German Labor Market in a Globalized World: Trade, Technology, and Demographics

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.

Labour markets during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

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.

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

Short-time work in economic crises

The Covid crisis revived the interest in the topic of short-time work (sometimes also known as furlough schemes or work sharing). In many countries, the schemes were utilised in unprecendented ways. The Institute for Employment Research organises a one-day online workshop on May 13, 2022 that focuses on current research on short-time work. Contributions may address the Covid crisis or previous economic crises. Both theoretical and applied papers with both micro- and macroeconomic approaches are welcome.

The workshop provides the opportunity for timely exchange on cutting-edge research on a specific topic. Presentations and discussions should spur the debate on usage, effects and design of a crucial labour market instrument.

Zukunft der Arbeit (Teil I) „The new normal“: Die Arbeit der Zukunft ist jetzt!

Die großen Transformationen der Arbeitswelt sind nicht nur voll im Gange, die „Zukunft der Arbeit“ ist bereits in der Gegenwart angekommen. Die Corona-Pandemie hat der Arbeitswelt einen noch nie dagewesenen Digitalisierungsschub verliehen, der aller Voraussicht nach unumkehrbar ist. Wie gehen wir mit den neuen Realitäten um?
Arbeit ist in vielen Bereichen unabhängig von Zeit und Ort geworden. Homeoffice, mobiles Arbeiten oder auch neuartige Formen der Selbständigkeit stehen beispielhaft für die großen Herausforderungen, die sich aus dem digitalen Umbruch der Arbeitswelt für die Gesellschaft ergeben.Von Seiten der Unternehmen eröffnen sich Chancen und zeitgleich Risiken, was Produktivität, Engagement und Mitarbeiterbindung angeht. Welche Anreize müssen geschaffen werden, um den Betrieb als sozialen Ort zu erhalten? Flexible Arbeitszeitregelungen und -modelle bergen neues Konfliktpotential zwischen Personal und Leitung, aber auch innerhalb der Belegschaft angesichts der Heterogenität der Aufgabenfelder. Welche Konsequenzen hat dies auf Vergütungsmodelle? Wie verändert sich die Interessensvertretung in den Betrieben? Was sind die Implikationen des hybriden Arbeitens für das Arbeitsrecht? Diesen und weiteren Fragen gehen international renommierte Experten aus Wissenschaft, Politik und der unternehmerischen Praxis in der Akademie am Starnberger See nach. Sie sind herzlich dazu eingeladen, mit zu diskutieren.