Major Theme: Reconstructing a Full Employment narrative More specific themes: - Reflections on the global financial crisis? Reform agendas etc. - Any research on unemployment - its dimensions, causes, cures. - The labour market and the intergenerational debate. - The policy challenge of emerging...

Die Hans-Böckler-Stiftung beforscht seit mehr als zehn Jahren das komplizierte Wechselverhältnis von Arbeit und Umwelt, von Ökonomie, Ökologie und Sozialem. Es ist uns aber ebenso wichtig, uns an Dialog und Erfahrungsaustausch zu beteiligen, Ideen auf ihre praktische Tauglichkeit zu...

The Conference will consider for adoption revised draft standards of labour force and work statistics, including a set of measures of labour underutilization to supplement the unemployment rate. If adopted, the revised statistical standards will update the resolution of statistics of the...

Topics of interest include but are not limited to evaluation of European and international experience with policy approaches to: 1) labor market policy and reform 2) youth unemployment 3) inequality and poverty 4) informality 5) gender and family issues 6) education. Both single country and...

Conference Program: SESSIONS A.1 Tracking in schooling A.2 Pre-market abilities A.3 Migrations and Networks A.4 Job insecurity and female labor supply A.5 Job satisfaction A.6 Macroeconomics of the labour market B.1 Determinants of schooling performances 1 B.2 Intergenerational mobility and...

The program is part of IZA’s network activities and its objective is to bring outstanding PhD students to Washington, DC. The program encourages interaction between talented PhD students and labor economists located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. On each of the five days of the...

List of Themes: - Family, Marriage and work - Labour Market Discrimination - Retirement - Program and Policy evaluation - Labour supply - Labour demand - Occupational choice and Intergenerational Mobility - Education, Training and Human Capital - Health - Job and Life Satisfaction - Wage...

Paper proposals are invited in any area of labor economics.

Program: - Cash Transfers and Social Assistance - Climate Change, Poverty and Migration - Education, Informality and Inequality - Education and Discrimination - Education and Labor Markets - Labor Market Programs and Employment - Health, Participation and Remittances - Welfare and Social Effects...

The conference focuses on how the rapid changes and transitions in society present challenges and opportunities for families, communities and organisations, with a special focus on work, families and communities in a globalising world. The past decade has seen significant changes in social...