The workshop aims to gather the most recent research concerning advances in the measurement of expectations, empirical testing of expectation formation process, especially the degree of their forward-lookingness, as well as the relevance of direct measures of expectations and empirical...

With unemployment rising and potential growth faltering, labor market reform has become more necessary than ever in OECD countries. Divergences remain however vivid regarding the direction of reforms: Which labor contracts? What role for labor taxation? Which minimum wages? What role for labor...

The special theme of this year’s conference is Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship. The thematic sessions include: - The design of social assistance and social insurance policies and their role in promoting human capital investment and improving labor market outcomes especially among...

Program: Session A: Welfare Reforms Session B: Higher Education Session C: Treatment Evaluation with Observational Data Session D: Unemployment Insurance & Firms Session E: Issues in the Evaluation of Field Experiments Session F: Field Experiments on Job Search Session G: Older Unemployed Workers

Celebrating the 20th birthday of the IAB Establishment Panel Survey, this workshop invites empirical contributions on the basis of the IAB Establishment Panel and the Linked-Employer-Employee data of the IAB from all areas of labour market research, and from related fields such as personnel...

Program: Session A: European Union Perspectives Session B: Receiving Countries' Perspectives I Session C: Receiving Countries' Perspectives II Session D: Sending Countries' Perspectives I Session F: Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged E(M)U

The 1st User Conference of the PASS panel survey aims at bringing together researchers from sociology, economics and survey methodology and fostering exchange between data users of the PASS panel survey. Papers should be based on data from the PASS panel survey. They may address research...

Program: Session A: Fertility in Russia Session B: Migrants and their Behavior in Central Asia and Russia Session C: Retirement and Consumption Session D: Invited Policy Lecture Session E: Informality and Self-Employment Session F: Minimum Wages in Russia Session G: Education and Labor Market...

The demographic development of many industrialized countries has motivated a tightening in public pension benefits and eligibility rules; confronted with less generous social security systems, senior citizens are asked to take active and complex decisions in order to guarantee their living...

The aim of this workshop is to provide a critical assessment of current research in the economics of structural change from a theoretical, institutional and policy perspective and in the light of Pasinetti’s contribution to the theory of structural economic dynamics. Paper proposals are...