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Aims and Scope
The IAB’s and FAU’s joint graduate programme GradAB is inviting young researchers to its 18th interdisciplinary PhD workshop “Perspectives on (Un-)Employment”.
This event brings together qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods research from the disciplines of economics, sociology as well as statistics and data science. It provides an opportunity for junior researchers to present their ongoing work in the field of theoretical and empirical labor market research, and to receive feedback from leading scholars in the field.
The workshop will focus on, but not be limited to the following subfields:
• Education, Qualification, and Social Mobility
• Inequality and Poverty, Gender, Migration, and Health
• Wages, Firms, and the Workplace
• Labor Market Institutions and Policies
• International Trade, Globalization, and Regional Labor Markets
• Technological Change and Artificial Intelligence
• Climate Change and its Impact on Labor Markets
• Survey Statistics, Survey Methodology and Computational Social Science
Confirmed keynote speakers
- Anders Frederiksen (Aarhus University)
- Frauke Kreuter (LMU Munich/University of Maryland)
- Mara Yerkes (Utrecht University)
Application
Call for Abstracts (including submission proceedings):
Workshop Venue
Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Regensburger Straße 100
90478 Nuremberg, Germany
Contact
Organizing Committee of GradAB Workshop 2026
Institute for Employment Research
Graduate Programme (GradAB)
Regensburger Straße 104
D-90478 Nuremberg, Germany
E-mail: IAB.PHD-WORKSHOP@iab.de
