1st IZA/DFID GLM-LIC Research Conference on New Research on Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries

IZA Workshop on Labor Market Institutions

The aim of this year’s meeting is to bring together senior and junior researchers to discuss their most recent research related to labor market institutions.

2nd IDSC of IZA/CAIS Workshop: Matching Workers and Jobs Online

4th IZA Workshop on the Economics of Education

The aim of the workshop is to bring together about 25 researchers working on the economics of education.

3rd IZA/HSE Workshop on Skills and Preferences and Labor Market Outcomes in Post-transition and Emerging Economies

Most empirical research on skills (cognitive and non-cognitive) and preferences has largely relied on data from high-income, industrialized countries. There is, however, a growing literature that extends this line of research to post-transition and emerging economies, which may be of particular scientific interest because it gives the opportunity to study contexts with a much wider variability of conditions.

2019 joint Cedefop and OECD Symposium: The next steps for Apprenticeship

The joint Cedefop/OECD symposium on apprenticeship brings together policy makers, practitioners and researchers from around the world to consider new research exploring the next steps for apprenticeship provision. The symposium organisers would welcome contributions on how apprenticeship provision is changing or would need to change in response to external mega trends, such as socio-demographic and socio-economic changes, new technologies and labour market changes, new forms of work organisation, trends in education and training.

IFS at 50: The future of income in retirement

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is celebrating its 50^th anniversary in 2019, and to mark the occasion they will be holding a series of events throughout the year where they draw on this experience to consider these big issues and discuss what evidence-based analysis can tell us about how to understand and respond to them. Events in this series will feature expert insight from IFS researchers and key commentators on each topic, and there will be plenty of time for discussion and debate.

15th IZA & 2nd IZA/CREST Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation

The Program Committee invites submissions for about 14 presentations from academic researchers doing program evaluation research on policy issues related to the labor market. Papers that include innovative approaches or methodological contributions are of particular interest.

IZA/DFID Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries Call for Proposals 2019

IZA and the UK Government Department for International Development (DFID) run the joint IZA/DFID Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries Programme (GLM|LIC), which aims to improve worldwide knowledge on labour market issues in low-income countries (LICs).

IZA Workshop: Heterogeneity and the Labor Market

The workshop will focus on the causes and effects of heterogeneity among workers, households, or firms on macroeconomic outcomes. 

Call for papers: 'Labour is not a commodity', today: the value of work and its rules between innovation and tradition

ADAPT’s International Conference this year is on the topic of “'Labour is not a commodity', today: the value of work and its rules between innovation and tradition". The X international conference on the new Great Transformation of Work is organized in partnership with the ILO and CIELO Laboral Network and under the auspices of the World Employment Confederation (WEC).