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6th Joint IZA/IFAU Conference on 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.

6th Joint IZA/IFAU Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation
October 06, 2016 - October 07, 2016

This conference is jointly organized by IFAU (Uppsala) and IZA (Bonn) in a bi-annual rhythm, taking place this year at IZA, in Bonn, on October 6-7, 2016.
The keynote lecture will be delivered by Jeffrey A. Smith (University of Michigan and IZA).

The Program Committee invites submissions for about 15 presentations from academic researchers doing program evaluation research on policy issues related to the labor market. Papers that include innovative approaches, structural modeling or methodological contributions are of particular interest.

Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Innovative methods for policy evaluation (e.g. field experiments)
- Labor market policies for low-skilled, youth and other disadvantaged unemployed groups
- The effects of labor market policies on inequality (in wages, occupations, job tasks etc.)
- Relationship between labor market policies and health outcomes
- The effects of minimum wages
- Interaction between labor market and education policies
- Policies to integrate refugees and migrants into the labor market

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