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16th IZA & 3rd IZA/CREST Conference: Labor Market Policy Evaluation

  • October 2024
    October 10, 2024 TO
    October 11, 2024

    IZA/ECONtribute Workshop on the Economics of Education

    Online

    The 8th IZA/ECONtribute Workshop on the Economics of Education will convene international scholars focusing on the development of skills within both formal and informal educational contexts and their valuation in the labor market. The conference will feature a select group of presenters, alongside a poster session for local researchers from the host institutions. Presentations and the keynote speech will be accessible via Zoom to an external audience.

16th IZA & 3rd IZA/CREST Conference: Labor Market Policy Evaluation
September 30, 2021 - October 01, 2021
The program will include about 12-15 presentations from academic researchers doing program evaluation research on policy issues related to the labor market. 

Topics include:
  • Innovative methods for policy evaluation (e.g. field experiments)
  • Labor market policies for low-skilled, youth and other disadvantaged unemployed groups/welfare recipients
  • Labor market policies that deal with the aftermath of the Covid-pandemic
  • Policies to integrate refugees and migrants into the labor market
  • Relationship between labor market policies and health outcomes
  • The effects of labor market policies on inequality (in wages, occupations, job tasks etc.)
  • Machine learning for policy evaluation
  • Identification of treatment effects
The keynote speaker is Patrick Kline (University of California, Berkeley, and IZA).

For more information, see the conference website.

The 16th IZA & 3rd IZA/CREST Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation is an initiative of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in cooperation with CREST (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics).
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