The IAAEU and the Chair of Personnel Economics at Trier University are pleased to announce the 17th Workshop on Labour Economics, taking place on April 03 – 04, 2025.

The workshop offers a venue for researchers to network and to exchange their most recent findings and ideas. We encourage both theoretical and empirically oriented submissions. We welcome contributions on topics and perspectives related to labour and personnel economics, including research in the fields of well-being, pay schemes and labour market institutions, as well as education, health or household economics. We particularly encourage PhD students to submit their research. A time slot of up to 45 minutes is allotted for each presentation. We aim to assign senior workshop participants as discussants to papers presented by PhD students.

Interested researchers are invited to submit electronic versions of extended abstracts or full papers (preferred) no later than January 08 th, 2025, here or via mail to wle@iaaeu.de. If accepted, full papers must be submitted by March 10 th , 2025. A notification of acceptance for presentation will be sent by the beginning of February 2025.

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The German Minimum Wage Commission hosts the workshop “Minimum wages in changing labour markets” at Hotel Aquino in Berlin on the 7th and 8th of November 2024:

Fundamental changes are currently taking place in labour markets. Labour shortages and a changing labour supply are increasingly becoming determining factors. These developments can be seen in the labour markets of almost all western industrialized countries. The workshop will address the question of what effects minimum wages have under these changed conditions. Among other things, the effects of minimum wages on the labour supply of certain demographic groups, such as labour market entrants or older employees, and the effects of minimum wages on migration flows and the labour market integration of immigrants will be central themes. The interrelationship between minimum wages and collective bargaining will be another focus. The workshop will present research findings from Germany, other EU member states, the USA and the United Kingdom.

Registration at registration@geschaeftsstelle-mindestlohn.de

Deadline for registration: 9th of October

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The ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin invites PhD students and post-docs to its first masterclass, “Reproducibility in Research – Tools, Tips, and Skills for Day 1, Day T-1, and Anytime in Between.”

Led by Lars Vilhuber, Data Editor of the American Economic Association and an expert in labor economics, data privacy, and transparency in research, this event will equip participants with the essential tools and techniques needed to ensure transparency and reproducibility in their work.

Time: 15 October 2024 – 16 October 2024.

Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Spandauer Straße 1, 10178 Berlin.

Registration: here.

For the full schedule and exact room details, please visit the event page.

The Rockwool Foundation Berlin is organising the first RFBerlin Public Lecture in cooperation with the Humboldt University of Berlin. The guest speaker is Nobel Prize winner David Card, with his lecture ‘Migration and the Minimum Wage – Causes and Effects on the Labour Market.’

Professor Card will explore the transition from economic models to practical policy, focusing on the impact of immigration on the labor market and minimum wages. He will discuss the role of scientific approaches in shaping effective policies and examine how real-world data can lead to better economic decision.

A Q&A session will follow the lecture, providing attendees the chance to engage directly with Professor Card.

Time: 16:00 – 18:00, Thursday 12 September 2024.

Location: Lecture Hall 201 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Spandauer Straße 1, 10178 Berlin

Registration: here.

Please find more information about the event here.

Ausschreibung von Stipendien am Promotionskolleg EQUALFIN: Finanzsystem und Ungleichheit im Kontext von multiplen Krisen.

Aus Mitteln der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung werden zum frühesten Beginn im Juni 2025 bis zu 6 Promotionsstipendien für das Promotionskolleg „EQUALFIN: Finanzsystem und Ungleichheit im Kontext von multiplen Krisen“ (PK 058) vergeben.

Die derzeitigen multiplen Krisen drohen, bestehende soziale und ökonomische Ungleichheiten zu
verschärfen. Der Prozess von Krisen und Reaktion darauf erfolgt im Kontext eines globalen Finanzsystems, das immer weniger seiner klassischen Aufgabe der Investitionsfinanzierung nachkommt, Ungleichheiten verschärft und das zudem durch hierarchisch strukturierte Währungsbeziehungen geprägt ist.

Das Promotionskolleg untersucht die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Finanzsystem und sozioökonomischer Ungleichheit auf nationaler und globaler Ebene und analysiert neue Zielkonflikte durch die Finanzierung der ökologischen Transformation. Die Forschung adressiert die Wechselwirkungen auf makro- und mikroökonomischer Ebene und mit einem methodisch und paradigmatisch pluralistischen Zugang.

Insgesamt stehen vier Themencluster im Mittelpunkt des Kollegs:

1. Finanzsektor und Ungleichheit aus globaler Perspektive
2. Finanzsektor und Ungleichheit im Kontext der ökologischen Transformation
3. Ungleicher Zugang zu Finanzierung auf individueller Ebene
4. Ungleiche Finanzierung und ihre Folgen für Sozialversicherungen, Immobilienmärkte und
   wirtschaftliche Entwicklung.

Ablauf des Bewerbungs- und Auswahlprozesses:
Bewerbungsschluss Stipendien ist der 02.11.2024

Weitere Informationen hier

Workshop on Life-course Inequality Dynamics

Concerns about inequality and questions of social justice and cohesion have re-entered the public arena and animate debate. In his Nobel prize lecture in 2015, Angus Deaton has outlined three imperatives that are key to understanding inequalities and formulating welfare-enhancing policies: (I) Differences in resources across individuals should be measured not only at specific points in time but also across the life course. (II) Direct economic measures of well-being should be developed to assess better socio-economic outcomes. (III) Data should be reconciled with lifecycle models to explain the causal mechanisms behind outcomes. This workshop is an initiative to build on these imperatives and seeks to bring together scholars whose research focuses, from a lifecycle perspective, on inequalities in and fluctuations of economic resources and their drivers.

Time and Place
October 24-25, 2024; DIW Berlin, Elinor Ostrom Hall

Keynote speakers
Prof. Dr. Cecilia García Peñalosa, Aix-Marseille School of Economics
Title: Trends and Inequality in Lifetime Earnings in France

Prof. Dr. Dr. Giacomo Corneo, Freie Universität Berlin
Title: Lifetime income inequality and redistribution

Submission
Submissions that deal with any aspect of inequality dynamics over the lifecycle. There is no participation fee. Travel expenses are not covered. If you would like to participate in the workshop and / or present your own research, please send your application to: LINDY@diw.de

Submission deadline: August 25, 2024

The 5th Edition of the Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research will take place in Trento, Italy, from 23 to 25 October 2024.

The School provides advanced training on key social science research topics using an analytical approach based on sociological, economic, demographic, statistical and computer science perspectives. The School aims to provide a systematic integration of the theoretical, methodological and technical ‘cutting-edge’ aspects of applied quantitative research.

The 5th Edition focuses on Social Policies. The theoretical sessions will range from the conceptualization and measurement of Social Policies to their assessment in an empirical and comparative framework. The methodological sessions provide a specific training on (1) discrete-time event history analysis with the integration of micro and macro data; (2) multilevel regression analysis using micro and macro data in a comparative framework; and (3) causal estimation using semiparametric event study approach and quasi-experimental methods.

The School is addressed to PhD students, post-docs and early-stage researchers of universities, public and private research institutions.

Application deadline: 26 August 2024, 12.00 PM (CET).

Please find more information here.

The German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA) at the University of Mainz welcomes applications for its 3-day Autumn School. The Autumn School provides opportunities to learn how to use the FReDA dataset. Participants will be introduced to FReDA, find out how to access the data, and will have the chance to work with the data through hands-on sessions.

FReDA collects data about living situations of partnerships and families in Germany. A representative sample was drawn from all people aged 18 to 49 living in Germany in 2020. Twice a year, FReDA surveys its participants and their partners.

The course will be held in English. Researchers of all levels are welcome. Participants need to be able to use Stata, R or SPSS.

The Summer School will take place from 30.09 – 02.10, 2024 at the University of Mainz.

Application deadline: July 31, 2024

Please find more information here.