IZA Lunch Meeting: Challenges to the Labor Market and International Evidence

  • October 2024

    IZA/ECONtribute Workshop on the Economics of Education

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    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.

IZA Lunch Meeting: Challenges to the Labor Market and International Evidence
November 20, 2014

IZA members Alexander Spermann and Alexander S. Kritikos held a lunch discussion themed around challenges to the labor market and international evidence.

The talk was used as a platform to discuss IZA World of Labor articles by Michael Rosholm, Werner Eichhorst, and Nina Smith.

German Ministers of Labor and Social Affairs and Finance attended, as well as representatives from the Chancellor’s office.

Read more on the papers that were discussed:
Do case workers help the unemployed? By Michael Rosholm
Fixed-term contracts, by Werner Eichhorst
Gender quotas on boards of directors, by Nina Smith 

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