We are delighted to announce the 9th IZA Annual Migration Meeting (AM²). We seek high quality academic work that extends, enriches, refines, and challenges our understanding of the broad array of issues related to migration. Researchers are expected to present their best ongoing cutting-edge work.

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...

European Governments made substantial efforts to reform labor market institutions when walking away from the Eurosclerosis of the 1980s. To achieve political viability, the reforms mostly entailed changing the rules only for new hires and introducing a wide array of new flexible, fixed-term,...

The Program Committee invites submissions for about 20 presentations from academic researchers in all areas of labor market policy evaluation and methodological contributions from related fields.

Program: - Session I: Wages and Related Issues - Session II: Time and Timing - Session III: Macro Issues - Session IV: Biological and Non-Cognitive Issues - Session V: Migration - Session VI: Peer Effects - Session VII: Sickness and Absenteeism - Session VIII: Education and Human Capital

Program: Session A: Family Issues Session B: Occupational Adjustment Session C: Employer Attitudes Session D: Remittances Session E: Culture and Identity Session F: Migration Flows Session G: Public Issues Session H: Crime and Culture Session I: Africa 1 Session J: Africa 2 Session K: Rural and...

We seek high quality academic work that extends, enriches, refines, and challenges our understanding of the broad array of issues related to migration. We particularly encourage submissions from junior researchers. Researchers are expected to present their best ongoing cutting-edge work. The 7th...

The philosophy of EDDI is to be an open, inclusive DDI community-building activity. In this spirit, while GESIS and the IDSC of IZA will be running EDDI, with the IDSC of IZA being the regular host, we strongly hope to take EDDI on the road across Europe so that the community converges at a...

The aim of the conference is to highlight the consequences of the minimum wage on the basis of recent theoretical and empirical contributions. Contributions related to the employment and wage effects of the minimum wage, the optimal design of the minimum wage and its interaction with optimal...

Topics: 1. Diagnosis of labor market conditions and vulnerability in middle and low income countries. 2. Links between the business environment, labor demand and poverty reduction. 3. Benefits/costs of structural reforms and globalization for workers 4. Causes and consequences of formality and...