RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research in Essen and Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf jointly organize the second “Studi-BUCH Interdisciplinary Text-As-Data Workshop” on May 16 & 17, 2024. The workshop is aimed at researchers from any field who are already investigating or would like to investigate a topic in education and labor market research using text data. The two-day event consists of a workshop with regular presentations complemented by focus sessions in which new research ideas and datasets are presented. Computer scientists and other experts will be present to give feedback, exchange ideas, and provide opportunities to collaborate.

Keynote presentations will be provided by Alessandra Casarico (Bocconi University & SI Lab, Dondena Research Center) and Simon Wiederhold (University of Halle-Wittenberg & Halle Institute for Economic Research).

The Call for Papers is attached. Extended abstracts/papers/data reports can be submitted to Friederike.hertweck@rwi-essen.de. 

Deadline for submissions is March 11, 2024. Submissions from PhD students are highly encouraged! 

More information is available here: https://www.rwi-essen.de/forschung-beratung/kompetenzbereiche/arbeitsmaerkte-bildung-bevoelkerung/studi-buch-interdisciplinary-text-as-data-workshop.

For queries, please contact Friederike Hertweck (Friederike.hertweck@rwi-essen.de).

Please find below a call for up to 12 PhD fellowships at the Graduate School “EQUALFIN: Finance and inequality in times of polycrisis”. The Graduate School is financed by the Hans Böckler Stiftung and co-organized by the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin and HTW Berlin. Successful applicants will receive a stipend of about 1.550 Euro/month for at least three years.

The doctoral program aims to address the interaction between financial systems and socio-economic inequalities at national and global level as well as new conflicts of objectives arising from the financing of the ecological transformation at macro- and micro-economic levels.

Key dates:

Information workshop on April 19, 2024.

Application deadline on May 31, 2024.

Planned starting date for the fellowships: between November 2024 and February 2025.

For more details on the application process, visit https://www.lai.fu-berlin.de/disziplinen/oekonomie/equalfin/formalities_app/index.html

The 6th Forum „Higher Education and the Labour Market“ (HELM) of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW), with a special focus on “The Bologna Process After 25 Years: Continuities, Changes, and Evaluations“ will take place on June 19-20, 2024 in Hanover.

Keynotes will be given by Nikki Shure (UCL) and Stephan Thomsen (University of Hanover), and we welcome contributions from various disciplines, particularly from Economics, Social Sciences, and Educational Sciences!

Please submit a short abstract (max. 500 words) by April 8, 2024 to HELM@dzhw.eu.

For more information, see the full call for papers here.

We want to bring together the broader community of researchers in the Berlin area who work with causal graphs. The focus of the workshop will be on how graphs can help us in applied research in the social sciences, climate science, and beyond. The big question is: How can we transfer methods and solutions for specific problems from one discipline to another? Participants are invited to give a short presentation of their work (about 10 minutes), followed by 10 minutes of discussion. We encourage everyone to present work in progress, new software or implementations, and really anything that makes it easier for applied scientists to harness the power of causal graphs in their research. We also invite each participant to send a picture of the graph that best summarizes their current work, which will be displayed in the conference room to facilitate discussion.

Date: Tuesday, 23rd April 2024
Format: One-day workshop (9am-5:30pm)
Location: Hertie School, Berlin (Alexanderplatz 3, Room 6.207)
Organizers: Silvana Tiedemann (Hertie School, Center for Sustainability), Patrick Klösel (PIK/MCC)
Keynotes: Urmi Ninad (TU Berlin), Will Lowe (Hertie), Vanessa Didelez (BIPS Bremen, tbc)

Deadline to submit your contribution: March 29th, 2024.

There is no participation fee and catering is provided by the Hertie School.

Please forward this Call for Contributions to any of your colleagues who may be interested in participating.

Find more information here.

The Dresden Branch of the ifo Institute and the Technische Universität Dresden invite you to submit your (preliminary) paper to the 13th ifo Dresden Workshop on Labor Economics and Social Policy. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, evaluations of labor market policies and related social programs, minorities and integration measures, behavioral economics, and health and inequality issues. Preference is given to papers estimating causal effects and using novel methods.

We specifically encourage PhD students and post-doctoral researchers to submit their current research. Each paper will be allocated 45 minutes, divided between the presentation, a discussion by an assigned workshop participant and a general discussion.

Deadline: February 1, 2024

Find more information here.

Das Nachwuchsforscher:innen-Netzwerk am IAB wird derzeit von Carina Toussaint und Markus Wolf geleitet. Wir organisieren u.a. ein Brown Bag Seminar, das während der Semesterzeiten ca. alle zwei Wochen montags während der Mittagszeit via ZOOM stattfindet.

Nachwuchsforscher:innen können dort ihre Forschung vorstellen und diskutieren. Dabei soll das Format ein „geschützter Raum“ sein, bei dem man auch sehr frühe Forschungsergebnisse oder -ideen vorstellen und mit anderen Nachwuchsforscher:innen diskutieren kann. Wir fragen zweimal pro Jahr ab, wer in der nächsten Runde präsentieren möchte. Die Seminarreihe ist nicht nur für Forscher:innen am IAB sondern auch von anderen Institutionen offen.

Wer in unseren Verteiler aufgenommen werden möchte um die Einladungen zum Seminar bekommen, kann uns eine Mail an folgende Adresse schicken: IAB.NachwuchsforscherInnen-Netzwerk@iab.de