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Aims and Topics:
The IAB’s Graduate School (GradAB) and the FAU invites young researchers to its 17th interdisciplinary Ph.D. workshop “Perspectives on (Un-)Employment”. The workshop provides an opportunity for graduate students to present their ongoing work in the field of theoretical and empirical labor market research and receive feedback from leading scholars in the discipline. The workshop will focus on but not be limited to empirical research in the following fields:
- Inequality, poverty, and intergenerational mobility
- Labor supply, labor demand, and unemployment
- Gender, family, and discrimination
- Evaluation of labor market institutions and policies
- Health, labor market integration, and job security
- Globalization, international trade and labor markets
- Education, qualification, and job tasks
- Wage determination and life-cycle earnings
- Migration and international labor markets
- Establishments and the workplace
- Regional labor markets and spatial disparities
- Technological change and digitalization
- The impact of climate change on the labor market
We welcome papers that apply quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods.
Call for Papers:
2507call for paper 2026 onpager.pdf
Date:
22-23 January 2026
Location:
Federal Employment Agency (BA)
Regensburger Strasse 104
D-90478 Nuremberg, Germany
Keynote Speakers:
- Paula England, New York University Abu Dhabi
- David Dorn, University of Zurich
Programme:
Contact:
Organizing Committee of GradAB Workshop 2026
Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Graduate Programme (GradAB)
Regensburger Straße 104
D-90478 Nuremberg, Germany
Email: IAB.PHD-WORKSHOP@iab.de
