We have selected events that we think are relevant to policymakers and/or that involve the IZA World of Labor. Also included are a selection of IZA events (further IZA events can be found here)
Events
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April 2021
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May 2021
SOLE's 26th Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, United StatesThe Society of Labor Economists will hold the 26th Annual Meetings on May 14-15, 2021 at the Sonesta Philadelphia, 1800 Market Street Philadelphia, PA, 19103.
17th IZA Annual Migration Meeting
OnlineThe 17th Annual Migration Meeting is following a long and successful tradition of bringing together experienced scholars and talented young economists to discuss cutting-edge work on migration.
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June 2021
8th IZA Workshop: Environment, Health and Labor Markets
OnlineThe aim of the 2021 workshop of IZA's Environment, Health, and Labor Markets program area is to bring together researchers analyzing the impact of environmental factors and health policies on labor market outcomes, human capital outcomes, industrial activity, production decisions and demographic outcomes.
4th IZA/Higher School of Economics Workshop: Thirty Years after the Fall of the Iron Curtain: The Contribution of Labor Market Adjustment to Transition and Convergence
OnlineThis is an updated call for papers as the workshop planned for 2020 was cancelled due the COVID-19 crisis. We still would like to keep the overall theme developed for 2020, but we also intend to include two sessions that deal with the impact of COVID-19 on labor markets in post-transition and emerging economies.
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July 2021
First IZA Workshop: Climate Change and Labor Markets
OnlineDespite efforts to mitigate the extent of climate change, exposure to extreme events such as heatwaves, floods, and hurricanes will become more prevalent for the entire world’s population. In addition to causing damages to the environment and human health, climate change as well as adaptation to global warming pose challenges for the functioning of labor markets. In particular, this raises questions about the implications of climate change for a range of labor market outcomes, among others human capital formation, migration decisions, location decisions of firms, labor supply and productivity of workers, and labor demand across occupations.
20th IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists (TAM)
OnlineKevin Lang (Boston University and IZA), President of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) and Daniel S. Hamermesh (Barnard College and IZA), IZA Network Director will attend the meeting and will share some thoughts with about the 20 years of the IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists. In addition, two participants from the very first IZA/SOLE meeting Petra Todd (University of Pennsylvania and IZA) and Coen Teulings (University of Cambridge and IZA) have agreed to present new work at this year’s meeting again.
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September 2021
IZA/World Bank/NJD/WIDER Jobs and Development Conference: Building Better Jobs for the Post-Covid 19 Era
OnlineA three-day, online conference focusing on expanding the frontiers of global knowledge around jobs and advance the discussion on the most effective policies on technology and the future of work; trade, global value chains and their effect on jobs; migration; the COVID-19 pandemic, living standards and jobs; and women in the labor market.
2nd Joint IZA & Jacobs Center Workshop: Consequences of Covid-19 for Child and Youth Development
OnlineMore than one year into the Covid-19 pandemic, education systems, parents and students worldwide struggle to adapt to the new normal. IZA and the University of Zurich's Jacobs Center for Child and Youth Development present the 2nd joint workshop on the consequences of COVID-19 for Child and Youth Development.
IZA Workshop: Labor Market Institutions
OnlineThe aim of the meeting is to bring together senior and junior researchers to discuss their most recent research related to labor market institutions.
World Employment Conference 2020: Steering a labour market in transformation
Madrid, SpainThe 2020 World Employment Conference originally planned to take place from September 29 to October 1 in Madrid, Spain has been postponed to September 2021.
IZA/University of Sheffield/Econtribute Workshop: Evaluation of Labor Market Policies: New Data and New Approaches
OnlineWe are writing to invite you to participate in the IZA/University of Sheffield/Econtribute Workshop: Evaluation of Labor Market Policies: New Data and New Approaches on September 9-10, 2021.
Call for Applications: IZA/FCDO ONLINE Development Economics Course for Sub-Saharan Africa
OnlineThe IZA/FCDO Program on Gender, Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries (G²LM|LIC) is sponsoring the ONLINE EVENT: "Development Economics Course for Sub-Saharan Africa", September 13 - November 12, 2021. The biggest puzzle in economics is why fundamentally equal humans living in different countries enjoy very different standards of living. The aim of this course is to bring together the very latest research in development economics that tries to answer this puzzle.
Call for Applications: IZA/FCDO ONLINE Short Course on Research Skills for South Asia
OnlineThe course is designed for postgraduate students, faculty members, and early career researchers based in South Asia who would like to develop their academic research skills.
33rd Annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists
Padua, ItalyThe European Association of Labour Economists are pleased to invite all labour economists to submit papers for presentations at the 33rd Annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists, to be held in Padua Italy, 16-18 September 2021.
4th IZA Workshop on Gender and Family Economics: "Women in Leadership"
OnlineThe 4th Annual Workshop on Gender and Family Economics is centered around the theme of this year’s UN International Women’s Day, "Women in Leadership".
6th IZA Workshop: The Economics of Education
OnlineIn the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the IZA Economics of Education Program continues with the 6th IZA Workshop on the Economics of Education on September 22–24, 2021.
16th IZA & 3rd IZA/CREST Conference: Labor Market Policy Evaluation
OnlineThe 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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October 2021
IZA Workshop: Economics of Time Use and Mental Health: Stress, Sleep, Fatigue and Employment
OnlineThis workshop will focus on discussing the effects of health behaviors on labor market, family and household decisions against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic.
4th IDSC of IZA Workshop: Matching Workers and Jobs Online - New Developments and Opportunities for Social Science and Practice
OnlineLike many forms of economic exchange, the process of matching workers to jobs has rapidly migrated online in the last two decades. Thus, understanding how online labor matching mechanisms work; how they affect economic outcomes like employment, wages, and inequality; and learning how to take advantages of the ‘big data’ that are generated by online markets all have important implications for the future of labor.
4th IZA/Higher School of Economics Workshop: Thirty Years after the Fall of the Iron Curtain: The Contribution of Labor Market Adjustment to Transition and Convergence
OnlineThis fourth IZA/Higher School of Economics workshop will bring together labor economists who work on labor market adjustment in the post-Soviet states that emerged from the break-up of the Soviet Union, post-transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as China.
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November 2021
IZA Workshop: The Role of Search and Matching in Macroeconomics: A Retrospective
OnlinePlease read the description to find the full program.
ADAPT Conference - Work and its value: Interdisciplinary Reflections on an Ever-Changing Concept
Bergamo, ItalyADAPT’s International School of Higher Education in Labour Law and Industrial Relations invites professors, researchers, graduate students, professionals and those who have an interest in the conference topics to provide their contribution, so as to examine the ever-changing concept of work from an international and comparative perspective.