• Do employees benefit from profit sharing? by Tony Fang
• How much do we work? By Daniel S. Hamermesh
• Does performance-related pay improve productivity? by Claudio Lucifora

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• How to minimize lock-in effects of programs for unemployed workers: Determining the appropriate timing and targeting of these programs can help improve their cost-effectiveness.
• What are the consequences of regularizing undocumented immigrants?
• Where do immigrants retire to? Immigrants’ retirement decision can greatly affect costs of healthcare and social protection.
• The mortality crisis in transition economies: Social disruption, acute psychosocial stress and excessive alcohol consumption raised mortality rates during transition to a market economy.
• Does government spending crowd out voluntary labor and donations? There is little evidence that government spending crowds out charitable donations of time and money. 

• 31st annual Conference of the Italian Association of Labor Economists, 22-23 September. The conference will be hosted by the University of Trento, and the theme for the 2016 conference is the "Economics of Culture" with the keynote lecture delivered by Paola Giuliano (UCLA Anderson School of Management). The program includes invited lecturers, and parallel and poster sessions, as well as providing the opportunity to analyze and discuss issues related to the functioning of the labor market as well as develop research collaborations. View the full conference program here.
• What Works Global Summit, 26-29 September. The Campbell Collaboration, the Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation (Queen's University Belfast), the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), and Sense about Science announce the first What Works Global Summit. Dr Olga Nottmeyer, Managing Editor of IZA World of Labor, presents a session with Nick Drydakis and Sandra McNally on Learning What Works in labour markets at the Council Chamber, BMA House on Monday September 26, 11am.
• Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association annual Congress), 4-7 October. The annual conference consists with a core conference with invited lectures concerning demographic change.
• 6th Joint IZA/IFAU Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation, 6-7 October. This conference, jointly organized by IFAU and IZA, takes place this year at IZA in Bonn. The Program Committee invites submissions for about 15 presentations from academic researchers doing program evaluation research on policy issues related to the labor market. 
• IZA/OECD/World Bank/UCW Workshop on Job Quality in Post-transition, Emerging and Developing Countries, 13-14 October. Theoretical and empirical papers are both welcome for the workshop.
• Counterfactual Methods for Policy Impact Evaluation (COMPIE 2016), 20-21 October. The aim of the conference is to bring together policymakers and researchers to discuss developments in counterfactual methods applied to the impact evaluation of policy interventions, with a focus on EU employment and social policies. 
• IZA/Urania discussion - The economic consequences of Brexit - what the experts say, 28 October. Join the IZA and a high-profile panel for a lively discussion on the economic consequences of Brexit at the Urania, Berlin. Buy tickets here.