Main theme: “Work and Employment in the Digital Era: Legal Challenges”

Die sozialwissenschaftliche Promotionswerkstatt Rhein-Ruhr richtet sich an Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden aus sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen sowie angrenzenden Fächern, die an einer Dissertation mit Bezug zu mindestens einem der folgenden Themenfelder arbeiten: Arbeit, Arbeitsmarkt,...

The workshop aims to facilitate the networking of young scientists and to promote the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including labour economics and personnel economics, health economics, education economics, demography and migration. Both theoretical and...

Topics: Labor and Employment Relations Issues

The 2020 May RIDGE Forum has been postponed following guidance of public health officials to December. The RIDGE forums aim at the spreading of high quality research in economics by bringing together prestigious researchers working on the frontier of knowledge to local and regional researchers...

The purpose of this Symposium is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between Chinese and international scholars on labor economics. We invite submissions from all areas related to labor economics. Empirical research on or theoretical work with empirical applications to the Chinese labor market...

Empirical research in economics typically focuses on the unbiased estimation of causal effects. In contrast, statistics and computer science place more value on prediction (especially out-of-sample) and data-driven selection of models and variables. So far, only few studies apply these methods...

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of its Cooperatives Unit (COOP), the ILO aims to bring together scholars and practitioners working with governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, as well as cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE) for a two-day international...

Das Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftssystem ist von Erwerbsarbeit und Wachstum abhängig. Um sich davon zu befreien, muss statt bezahlter Arbeit das Tätigsein für sich und andere in den Mittelpunkt rücken. An welche Erfahrungen lässt sich dabei anknüpfen?

The German Summer School for Human Factors is the successor of the Berlin Summer School of Human Factors. It is an annual postgraduate event that is supported by the newly founded Section of Engineering Psychology of the German Psychological Society. The Summer School is intended to be an...