Program: Session A: Wage Setting and Price-Wage Interactions Session B: Labor Market Modeling, Macro-Interactions and Policies Session C: Implications for Monetary Policy Book Launch: Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession Special Session: IZA World of Labor Session D: Labor...

Topics: - Mismatch of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in the labor market; - Cognitive and non-cognitive skills and labor productivity; - The evolution of cognitive and non-cognitive skills over the life cycle; - Policy interventions and the formation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills.

The program encourages interaction between talented PhD students and labor economists located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. On each of the five days of the program a leading labor economist will present his/her frontier research. Students will be given the opportunity to...

ESSLE is designed to bring together economists in the field from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. It provides a unique opportunity for researchers from different universities and countries to discuss their work in a relaxed atmosphere and to develop long-term...

Program: Session A: Employment in Green and Non-Green Sectors Session B: Environmental Policies and Regulation (continues) Session C: Environment and Human Capital

Many individuals, adults, adolescents, and children alike engage in a host of risky behaviors that might have significant present and future ramifications. Broadly defined, these are the type of behaviors that involves a trade-off between short term benefits and long-term costs. Examples of such...