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Automatisierung digitaler Kommunikation, Regulierung neuer Technologien, digitale Teilhabe, Digitalisierungsmythen in der öffentlichen und politischen Debatte – in diesem Jahr widmet sich die „bidt Konferenz“ dem Thema „Digital kommunizieren – Digitales kommunizieren“.
Freuen Sie sich auf ein abwechslungsreiches Programm mit thematischen Sessions, Diskussionsangeboten und Interaktionsmöglichkeiten. Gemeinsam mit Expert:innen beleuchten wir Handlungsfelder der digitalen Kommunikation und gehen der Frage nach, wie digitale Themen in Politik, Medien, Arbeitswelt und breiter Öffentlichkeit kommuniziert werden.

Datum: 11.-12. Oktober 2023
Ort: Gasteig HP8 (Hans-Preißinger-Straße 8, 81379 München)

Für die Teilnahme ist eine Anmeldung erforderlich.

Am 11. Oktober spricht Sascha Lobo (Autor, Podcaster und Internetunternehmer) in seiner Keynote zum Thema „Wie generative KI die Welt verändert“.
Über die gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen von generativer KI und Sprachmodellen diskutieren Lajla Fetic (Bertelsmann Stiftung), Anna Kopp (Microsoft Deutschland GmbH) und Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pfeffer (TU München) mit Prof. Dr. Hannah Schmid-Petri (bidt / Universität Passau).
Am 12. Oktober starten wir mit einem Blick in das bidt Graduate Center, in dem junge Wissenschaftler:innen u.a. zu ChatGPT, Social Media Literacy sowie Öffentlichen Gütern und Digitalisierung forschen.
Außerdem erwarten Sie ein Gespräch zum Stand der digitalen Debattenkultur aus philosophischer und juristischer Sicht sowie zwei Themen-Sessions zu:

• Let's talk about Tech? Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt: Ein kommunikativer Prozess!
• Das Risiko im Risiko: Wie schaffen wir ein positives Digitalisierungsnarrativ?

Mit der Keynote zum Thema „Wie sieht ein Narrativ gelingender Digitalisierung aus?“ schließt Valerie Mocker (Wingwomen) die Konferenz ab.

Informationen zum Programm finden Sie hier.

Weitere Informationen folgen in den nächsten Wochen auf bidt.digital, in unserem Newsletter und über Social Media.

Date: October 4-5, 2023
Place: IAB Nuremberg, Germany

The interdisciplinary IAB/LASER Workshop on "Survey Experiments in Labor Market and Regional Research" is intended to promote the deepening and broadening of survey experiments as a method in labor market and regional research.
The organizing institutions, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), and Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER) at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) aim to bring together frontier research on survey experiments in labor markets and regional research of economists, sociologists and scholars from related fields. It focusses on both methodological issues and applications. The workshop provides a forum that allows scientists to network while fostering the exchange of research ideas and results.

Topics of Interest

The workshop deals with methodically oriented and applied research on survey experiments with a special focus on labor market and regional research. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest is:

• Methodological advances in survey experiments
• Job search, hiring, and matching
• Commuting and location decisions
• Labor market participation and unemployment
• Inequality and discrimination
• Gender and diversity
• Spatial distribution of activities, disparities and inequalities
• Globalization and technological change
• Artificial intelligence in labor and housing markets
• Labor market policy and urban/regional policy

Scientific Committee

• Martin Abraham, LASER and FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Wolfgang Dauth, IAB and University of Bamberg
• Yuliya Kosyakova, IAB and University of Bamberg
• Claus Schnabel, LASER and FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Gesine Stephan, IAB, LASER, and FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Matthias Wrede, LASER and FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Keynote Speakers

• Valentina di Stasio, Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science and ERCOMER, Utrecht University
• Thomas Hinz, Chair of Empirical Social Research with a Focus on Survey Research, University of Konstanz
• Tobias Wolbring, Chair of Empirical Economic Sociology, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Paper Submission

Please submit a full draft paper or extended abstract (about 1200 words) in PDF format to: IAB.survey-experiments@iab.de.
Submission deadline: May 31, 2023.
Notification of acceptance will be given by June 30, 2023.
Presenters will be asked to discuss another paper.

Workshop Registration

Presenters are exempted from the conference fee. The conference fee is 100 €, which includes refreshment and lunch during the workshop.

Contact

Organizing Committee of Spatial-LM Workshop 2022
Institute for Employment Research
Prof. Wolfgang Dauth
Regensburger Str. 104, D-90478 Nuremberg, Germany
e-mail: IAB.survey-experiments@iab.de

Please visit the website https://eveeno.com/IAB-survey-experiments for further information.

Machine learning has attracted huge attention in social sciences and neuroscience, delivering predictions that exceed any insight that a human researcher would be able to obtain with common theory-driven approaches. However, applications are often criticized as being mainly exploratory and inductive, and their utility for theory development is not yet clear. For this reason, we are organizing a free interdisciplinary online workshop with the title:

Machine Learning and Theory Development

taking place from 10 - 12 July 2023 (3 three-hour-sessions),
financed by Jacobs Foundation and CIFAR.

In this workshop, renowned experts from various fields will discuss how machine learning methods can be used to advance theory development. Presentations will be followed by panel discussions on similarities and differences, possibilities and limitations of the approaches. The workshop is targeted at applied researchers in any discipline interested in using machine learning methods to advance their field.

Our wonderful speakers are:

• Dr. Ryota Kanai, founder and CEO of Araya
• Dr. Katharina Dobs, University Giessen
• Prof. Dr. Blake Richards, McGill University Mayank Agrawal (Princeton University)
• Prof. Dr. Filiz Garip (Princeton University)
• Dr. Anna Ivanova (MIT)
• Prof. Dr. Rebecca Johnson, Georgetown University
• Prof. Dr. Caspar van Lissa, Tilburg University
• Prof. Dr. Justin Grimmer, Stanford University

The workshop is free of charge but it is still necessary to register to give us an idea of who will be attending and to enable us to communicate with you more efficiently.

More information, the workshop programme, and the registration link can be found on our website.

We would be honoured to have you join us for another workshop.

The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is pleased to host an international workshop on recent developments in wage determination, distribution, and job skills from 14-15 June.

The traditional human capital model of wage determination fails to explain why wage disparities exist within or between firms, as firms themselves are deemed irrelevant. However, the availability of new data, such as employer-employee matched data sets, makes it possible to better explore issues of wage inequality. Consequently, models examining the sorting of workers across firms with varying productivity levels have gained importance. Our international conference aims to contribute to a better understanding of wage determination, distribution, and job skills.

Our outstanding speakers will address the significant rise in earnings inequality witnessed across numerous countries and the factors contributing to these developments. They will discuss the role of individual determinants of wage inequality, including tenure and job mobility, as well as firm characteristics and labor market institutions, and they will delve into the effects of wage losses following job displacement and the wage elasticity of recruitment.

Please visit the website for further information and the workshop programme.

Interested researchers can register until 7.6.2023 here: https://eveeno.com/recentdevelopments

The workshop is generously supported by funding of the Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER) of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Location: Nuremberg, Germany
Date: 26–27 May 2023

The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) is pleased to announce a workshop on imperfect competition in the labor market. Studies addressing one of the following topics from a theoretical and/or empirical perspective are particularly welcome for presentation at the workshop:

• Models of monopsonistic and oligopsonistic competition
• Quantifying the elasticity of labor supply to the firm
• The role of firms in wage-setting and rent-sharing
• Outside options and wages
• Employment concentration and wages
• Policies to remedy imperfect competition

Please submit full papers or extended abstracts as pdf files to IAB.monopsony@iab.de until 1 March 2023. We plan to send notifications of acceptance by 15 March.

There will be no parallel sessions.

Keynote speakers

• David Card (University of California, Berkeley)
• Alan Manning (London School of Economics)

Scientific Committee
Martin Friedrich (IAB), Ines Helm (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), Elke Jahn (IAB & University of Bayreuth), Michael Oberfichtner (IAB), Uta Schönberg (University College London & IAB), Todd Sorensen (University of Nevada, Reno & University of California, Merced)

Workshop Fee
There will be no fee for presenters of accepted papers. For all other participants the conference fee will be €80.

Travel Costs
Participants are expected to cover their travel expenses. If their home institution does not cover their travel expenses, presenters can apply for a travel grant. If you wish to apply for a travel grant, please state this and the required amount when submitting your paper.

The 21st EAWOP Congress will be held between the 24th to the 27th May 2023 in the fantastic city of Katowice, Poland.

Submissions have been rolling in every hour, and with so many people adding and updating their work on our Participant Zone, we have decided to EXTEND the submission deadline until the 31st October 2022. The breadth and reach of our discipline are reflected in the range of topics and format you can submit under, so check out the submission guidelines on our website to learn more. You can draft, update and submit your paper(s) by creating an account. In 'Participant Zone' you will be able to draft, update and submit your paper(s) Registration to the Congress will not be required at this stage of the submission process. Visit our website to read our submission guidelines, create your participant zone account, and submit your work!

The extended deadline for submissions is the 31st October 2022.

For more information please visit the EAWOP Congress page.

Vom 18. bis 20. Januar 2023 wird der 14. GradAB Ph.D.-Workshop "Perspectives on (Un-)Employment" am IAB stattfinden. Die Veranstaltung bietet eine exzellente Möglichkeit für Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden, ihre aktuellen Beiträge auf dem Gebiet der Arbeitsmarktforschung zu präsentieren. Die Keynotes geben Jennie E. Brand (University of California, Los Angeles), Uta Schönberg (UCL, London) und Melanie Revilla (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). Die Deadline für Submissions ist der 14. Oktober 2022.

Nähere Informationen finden Sie unter dem folgenden Link.

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

das Zentrum für HochschulBildung der TU Dortmund bietet in diesem Jahr mehrere jeweils zweitätige Methoden-Workshops in Dortmund an. Inhalt der Workshops sind Strukturgleichungsmodelle (SEM) und Mehrebenenanalysen (Multilevel Analysis) mit dem Statistikprogramm R. Die Workshops richten sich primär an Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden. Pandemiebedingt findet der Workshop im Februar digital via Zoom statt.

Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf folgender Website

Termine:

• 19. - 20. Juli 2021, jeweils 9 - 17 Uhr als Präsenzkurs, ggf. online, je nach Corona-Lage
• 07. - 08. Oktober 2021, jeweils 9 - 17 Uhr als Präsenzkurs, ggf. online, je nach Corona-Lage

the abstract submission deadline for the European Group of Process Tracing Studies (EGPROC, online) Annual Meeting has been extended. Please use this link to submit your contribution by April 30.

EGPROC will take place online.

We will host EGPROC 20201 on 18. May 2021, 19. May 2021 and 1. and 2. June 2021.

The conference will feature talks by:

• Susann Fiedler (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
• Martijn Willemsen (TU Eindhoven)
• Jean-Louis van Gelder (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law)
• Mariska Kret (Leiden University)

The event will include talks + time for socializing. We aim to keep zoom fatigue at bay by keeping the meeting times brief and organizing the event in a family-friendly and timezone-friendly way. We plan to schedule events between app. 4pm and 8pm UCT. The final schedule will be available here There is no conference fee.

EGPROC brings together researchers from different disciplines such as behavioral economists, as well as cognitive, economic and social psychologists with a shared interest in process tracing in judgment and decision making. We aim to invite speakers to discuss merits and challenges of different process tracing tools, and the future potential lying in their integration. Current work relating to human decision makers introduced by researchers from diverse backgrounds and career levels will be discussed.

EGPROC is supported by the ASPO workshop grant, the IAREP workshop grant, and the DGPs Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie.

We look forward to your submissions and hope to see you online soon!

Aufgrund der allseits bekannten Gründe konnte der ursprüngliche Veranstaltungstermin nicht umgesetzt werden. Deswegen haben wir einen neuen Termin im Februar 2021 gefunden. Der 17. Nachwuchsworkshop der der DGPs-Fachgruppe Fachgruppe Arbeits-, Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie (AOW) wird nun vom 03. bis 05. Februar 2021 an der FernUniversität in Hagen stattfinden. Das Team des Lehrgebiets Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie an der FernUniversität in Hagen freut sich auf die Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftler aus der AOW. Der Workshop bietet DoktorandInnen die Möglichkeit, ihr Dissertationsprojekt zu präsentieren, Feedback von MentorInnen und DoktorandInnen außerhalb ihrer eigenen Forschungsgruppe zu erhalten, Kontakte zu knüpfen und neue inhaltliche Impulse zu bekommen.

Bitte leiten Sie diese Ankündigung an interessierte Doktorandinnen udn Doktoranden weiter. Alle weiteren Infos sowie das Anmeldeformular finden Sie unter folgendem Link.

Dear colleagues, since lab experiments with human participants are difficult during the pandemic, one focus of this ZPID workshop held between August 4-7, 2020, will be on conducting web-based experiments. The workshop will also be about creating and analyzing experiments with the open-source software OpenSesame (+ JATOS) and Python. OpenSesame is a program to create experiments for psychology, neuroscience, and experimental economics. It allows you to integrate a range of different devices such as your eye tracker, button box, EEG equipment, and more. The workshop will be held by Sebastiaan Mathôt who developed OpenSesame and is an assistant professor at the University of Groningen. Participation is free but please register as spaces are limited and as it helps us plan. Registration deadline is 20th July 2020. Feel free to forward this message on to your colleagues who may be interested in attending.

When? 4th August till 7th August 2020, 10:00 to 14:15 (CET)

Themes? How to build experiments with OpenSesame, How to manage online experiments with JATOS, How to analyze data with Python

For whom? Everyone who is interested!

Please see the workshop homepage.

Wie es bereits nahezu Tradition ist, findet auch nächstes Jahr in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit vom 17.2. bis 21.02.2014 die ZiLL-Spring School zu Methoden der empirischen Bildungsforschung an der FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg am Campus Regensburger Straße 160 in Nürnberg statt.

Die - auch einzeln belegbaren - Workshops decken verschiedene Aspekte qualitativer empirischer Forschungsmethoden ab und sind Bestandteil des Promotionsprogramms Lehr-Lernforschung.

Die Themen sind:

• Planung, Durchführung und Datenauswertung von Videostudien
• Interviewführung
• Inhaltsanalyse mit MAXQDA - Eine praxisorientierte Einführung
• Auswertung qualitativer Daten mit der dokumentarischen Methode. Nähere Informationen finden Sie hier.

The joint doctoral programme in labour market research of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the School of Business and Economics of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg announces the call for applications for six doctoral scholarships within the GradAB.

Die Tagung wird von einem ZiLL-Mitglied, dem Kollegen Mark Stemmler, organisiert. Sie findet am 6. und 7. Dezember in Erlangen statt. Die Anmeldung für die Tagung erfolgt unter: ifp-methodentagung@fau.de

Mehrere Informationen finden Sie hier.

The Institute for Employment Research (IAB), is announcing (PDF) a new conference taking place between November 15 - 16, 2013. The title is "Dynamics of Low Wage, Low Pay and Transfer Receipt" and it will present international current research on trends and developments in the fields of low wage employment and transfer receipt (e.g., welfare, unemployment or other types of benefits) and the dynamics of these patterns over time. Submissions must occur until June 15th 2013.

For more information please visit the conference page.

Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

das Methodenzentrum der Universität Koblenz-Landau bietet Ende Februar zwei Methoden-Workshops auf dem Campus Landau an, und zwar:

• Einführung in die Analyse von Strukturgleichungsmodellen (structural equation modeling) mit dem R-Paket lavaan (Termin: 26.-27.02.2013; Dozentin: Claudia Crayen [FU Berlin])
• Einführung in die Mehrebenenanalyse (multilevel analysis) (Termin: 28.02.-01.03.2013; Dozentin: Tanja Lischetzke [Landau])

Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier

endeavours to bring together young researchers from different disciplines. This international workshop will provide an opportunity for Ph.D. students to present and discuss their research in a constructive atmosphere, incorporating feedback and advice from a number of experienced researchers. The workshop will focus on, but not be limited to, empirical research in the following fields:

• Labour market institutions and policies
• Inequality and education
• Regional disparities
• Labour mobility and dynamics
• Qualification and skills

For further information please see the attached pdf.

Date: November 19-20, 2012
Location: Institute for Employment Research, 90478 Nuremberg, Germany.

Workshop am 11. Mai 2012 in der Zentrale der BA, Sitzungssaal 158

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Freunde des ZiLL,

wegen Erkrankung unserer Referentin musste der Termin für den Workshop "Einführung in hierarchische lineare Modelle mit HLM" der diesjährigen Spring School verschoben werden.

Der neue Termin für den Workshop HLM ist Mittwoch, der 28.3.2012, und Donnerstag, der 29.3.2012, jeweils von 9.00 bis 18.00 Uhr im Raum 1.028 (Multimedia-Labor) am Campus Regensburger Straße in Nürnberg.

Gerne nehmen wir noch Anmeldungen für diesen Workshop entgegen, da auf Grund der Verschiebung einige Teilnehmer ihre Anmeldung storniert haben.

Herzliche Grüße vom Team der ZiLL-Geschäftsstelle

Stephan Kröner, Eva Fritzsche, Regina Staudenmaier, Elisabeth Schöller und Claudia Reinerth

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, wir freuen uns, auch in diesem Jahr einen Nachwuchsfürderworkshop anbieten zu können. Unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Thomas Ellwart und Prof. Dr. Conny Antoni findet dieser vom 05.-07. März in Trier statt. Mit Unterstützung von 12 Mentoren soll in drei Tagen viel Austausch und Feedback für insgesamt 42 Promovenden ermöglicht werden. Informationen zum geplanten Ablauf, der Anmeldung und den Kosten entnehmen Sie bitte dem angehängten Dokument. Eine Anmeldung wird bis Ende November möglich sein und soll ausschließlich online erfolgen. Hier geht es direkt zur Online-Anmeldung.

Der 2-tägige Workshop hat eine Einführung in die Missing-Data-Analyse zum Inhalt. Er richtet sich an empirisch arbeitende Forscher der Wirtschafts-, Erziehungs-, Verhaltens- und Sozialwissenschaften sowie der Biomedizin, die regelmäßig mit unvollständigen Datensätzen konfrontiert sind.

Zeitpunkt: 15, 16. Dezember, 2011. Ort: Welcome Hotel Darmstadt, Karolinenplatz 4, 64289 Darmstadt

hiermit lade ich Sie im Namen des Vorstands zur ordentlichen Mitgliederversammlung von LASER ein, die am Mittwoch den 29.06.2011 im WiSo-Gebäude Lange Gasse 20 in Nürnberg im Raum 2.429 stattfinden wird.

Wie in den Vorjahren besteht die Veranstaltung aus zwei Teilen:

Wir fangen um 18:15 Uhr mit einem Vortrag samt anschließenden Diskussion an. Herr Dr. Steffen Müller hat sich dankenswerter Weise bereit erklärt, einen Vortrag über "Teacher Experience and the Class Size Effect - Experimental Evidence" zu halten.

Gegen 19:00 Uhr beginnen wir dann mit der eigentlichen Mitgliederversammlung gemäß folgender Tagesordnung:

1. Bericht des Vorstands über Aktivitäten seit der letzten Mitgliederversammlung
2. Aufnahme neuer und Statusänderung bestehender Mitglieder
3. Beendigung einer Mitgliedschaft: Satzungsänderung
4. Wahl des Vorstandes
5. Planung künftiger Aktivitäten
6. Sonstiges

Zu Punkt 4 der Tagesordnung kann ich Ihnen mitteilen, dass alle Vorstandsmitglieder ihre grundsätzliche Bereitschaft signalisiert haben, sich zur Wiederwahl zu stellen, dass aber Vorschläge für weitere Kandidaten gerne entgegen genommen werden. Sollten Sie solche Vorschläge oder Vorschläge für zusätzliche Tagungsordnungspunkte haben, so teilen Sie mir diese bitte rechtzeitig vor der Versammlung mit (am besten bis 22.6. per E-Mail). Gleiches gilt für Aufnahmeanträge für neue Fellows oder Associates (formlose Bewerbung der Kandidaten mit Lebenslauf und Schriftenverzeichnis an mich). Über ein reges Erscheinen würde ich mich freuen.

Mit besten Grüßen

Ihr/Euer Claus Schnabel

Sprecher des Vorstandes von LASER

The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg (LASER) are organizing a workshop on Increasing Labor Market Flexibility ‐ Boon or Bane?" The conference will be held at the Congress Centre of the Federal Employment Agency Nuremberg (Germany) on March 18-19, 2011.

The workshop focuses on all aspects of labor market flexibility. We invite empirical and theoretical contributions to this topic from all areas of labor economics and related fields. Micro- and macroeconomic papers arewelcome.

Key-note lectures will be given by Katharine G. Abraham (University of Maryland), Susan N. Houseman (W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research), and Juan J. Dolado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Please see the attached call for papers for more details. You can submit your paper or extended abstract to flexibility@iab.de. The submission deadline is November 15, 2010. Further information can be found at the conference webpage.

Die Jahrestagung der Kommission Organisationspädagogik in der Sektion Erwachsenenbildung der DGfE: hier finden Sie den Programmüberblick und hier den Flyer.

It will take place from November 18th until November 19th at the Congress Centre of the Federal Enployment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit), Regensburger Str. 104 in Nuremberg, Germany, Room 168. The official announcement can be downloaded here.

The IAB Graduate School's 3rd interdisciplinary Ph.D. workshop on Perspectives on (Un-) Employment aims at bringing together young researchers from different disciplines. The workshop will provide an opportunity for Ph.D. students to present and discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. A number of experienced researchers will provide feedback and advice. The workshop will focus on but not be limited to empirical research in the following fields:

• Labour market institutions and policies
• Labour mobility and dynamics
• Inequality and education
• Qualification and skills
• Regional disparities

For further information please visit the IAB page

Workshop of the University Erlangen-Nuremberg, May 20th 2010 Economics Faculty, Room 0.143. The program for the workshop on the effect of global crisis on the youth labour market that will take place on the 29th of May is now available for download.

Aims and topics. The workshop presents international current research on career success from economic and psychological perspectives. We will be concerned with the objective and subjective meaning of career success; with individual differences predicting career success; with organizational strategies aiming at promoting career success; with the determinants and consequences of wages, unemployment, reemployment and occu-pational breaks; and with micro- and macro-economic as well as socio-political systems influencing career success.

For more information please refer to this link.

Aims and topics. The IAB Graduate School's 2nd interdisciplinary Ph.D. workshop on Perspectives on (Un-) Employment aimed at bringing together young researchers from different disciplines. The workshop provided an opportunity for Ph.D. students to present and discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. A number of experienced researchers provided feedback and advice. The workshop focused on empirical research in the following fields:

• Labour market institutions and policies
• Gender inequality

For more information plese refer to this link.

Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty? - A Microsimulation Study for Germany. Nuremberg, Wednesday, May 21th 2009 at 13:15. Volkswirtschaftliches Forschungsseminar, Room LG 2.429

An abstract and more information can be found here.

Thursday, 30.10.2008

This workshop, organized by Lutz Bellmann, Uwe Blien and Martin Abraham, focuses not only on the methodological issues of multi-level analysis but also on applied examples looked at from different scientific perspectives.

Please rememeber that registration is desirable, and you can do so at the following email address. More details and information regarding the time and place as well as the programme can be found here.

Vouchers, contracting-out and performance standards: Market mechanisms in active labor market policy

October 24-25, 2008, Federal Employment Agency, 90478 Nuremberg, Germany

During the last years, market mechanisms have gained importance in the provision of employment services. In Germany, access to further training programs is now granted through vouchers, issued by caseworkers. Also, unemployed persons may ask for a voucher that entitles them to use the services of a private placement agency or may be assigned to private agencies that compete on a quasi-market. Only recently, for older persons also a wage subsidy voucher has been introduced. But does the introduction of market mechanisms into originally public bureaucracies in fact improve efficiency and flexibility of services delivered? The workshop presents international current research on the use of market mechanisms in active labor market policy. The scientific committee encourages in particular contributions on vouchers for active labor market programs, on contracting-out of employment services, but also on performance standards for public bureaucracies as well as for private providers, related to active labor market policies. Theoretical contributions, empirical research using survey evidence or experiments as well as policy-orientated papers are welcome.

The homepage is available here.

October 24-25, 2008, Federal Employment Agency, 90478 Nuremberg, Germany

During the last years, market mechanisms have gained importance in the provision of employment services. In Germany, access to further training programs is now granted through vouchers, issued by caseworkers. Also, unemployed persons may ask for a voucher that entitles them to use the services of a private placement agency or may be assigned to private agencies that compete on a quasi-market. Only recently, for older persons also a wage subsidy voucher has been introduced. But does the introduction of market mechanisms into originally public bureaucracies in fact improve efficiency and flexibility of services delivered? The workshop presents international current research on the use of market mechanisms in active labor market policy. The scientific committee encourages in particular contributions on vouchers for active labor market programs, on contracting-out of employment services, but also on performance standards for public bureaucracies as well as for private providers, related to active labor market policies. Theoretical contributions, empirical research using survey evidence or experiments as well as policy-orientated papers are welcome.

The homepage is available here.

Perspectives on (Un-) Employment, Nuremberg, 5.-6.9.2008

The programme for the workshop is set and you can register for it from now on. The interdisciplinary Ph.D. workshop is intended to bring together Ph.D. students from different countries working on topics related to different perspectives on employment research. The focus of the workshop will be on empirical work from the following fields of employment research:

• Institutions and labour market policies
• Skills and qualification
• Migration

More information here

Here is the full programme

Montag, 14.01.2008, 18.15 Uhr, Raum C 201, Institut für Pädagogik der FAU, BismarckStraße 1, 91054 Erlangen

Nick Boreham ist Professor für "Education and Employment" und Director of Research des Institute of Education der University of Stirling. (für die Ranking-Gläubigen: Sein Institut belegt im Guardian University Guide hinter Cambridge und Kingston Platz 3 der erziehungswissenschaftlichen Institute in Großbritannien.)

Weitere Infos hier.

Gender and Labour Market Policies, Nuremberg, December 7-8, 2007

Incentives in Economics, Nuremberg, November 9-10, 2007

Herr Anton Flossmann (Universität Konstanz / IZA) spricht am Donnerstag, 08. November 2007, um 13:00 Uhr im Sitzungssaal 126a zum Thema "Empirical Bias Bandwidth Choice for Local Polynomial Matching Estimators".

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Meta-Analysis, Nuremberg, October, 11-12 2007

May, 17-18 2007, Nuremberg. International Symposium - Individuals in Temporary Agency Jobs.