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UK’s Welfare Reform – Conditionality measures and the flexibility of the UK Labour Market

  • December 2023
    December 15, 2023 TO
    December 16, 2023

    G²LM|LIC & BREAD Conference on Development Economics

    Nairobi, Kenya

    The IZA/FCDO Gender, Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries Programme (G²LM|LIC) and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) are pleased to announce a joint Conference on Development Economics .The conference will consist of presentations of advanced stage research by senior or junior researchers, and presentations of early stage research by junior researchers.

  • January 2024
    January 15, 2024 TO
    March 18, 2024

    IZA/FCDO ONLINE Development Economics Course

    Online

    This course addresses the question of why fundamentally equal humans living in different countries enjoy very different standards of living. The aim of this course is to make the very latest research in economics on these issues accessible to anyone who is sufficiently curious about it. It is modeled after the award-winning undergraduate development course at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and, like its model, it is entirely based on research articles.

UK’s Welfare Reform – Conditionality measures and the flexibility of the UK Labour Market
June 03, 2014

This event coincided with widespread welfare reforms in the United Kingdom, aimed at improving the flexibility of the labor market and lowering the unemployment rate. Discussions focused on welfare migration, and migrant access to benefits.

The conference opened with a speech by UK Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP. This preceded a presentation from IZA World of Labor Editor-in-Chief Klaus F. Zimmermann, who commented on the UK reforms from a German and EU perspective.

Read more about the event here.

Related articles:
Circular migration, by Klaus F Zimmermann
The welfare magnet hypothesis and the welfare take-up of migrants, by Corrado Giulietti

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