Previous seminars

Heejung Chung, University of Kent Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, flexible working has become the norm for many workers. However, does flexible w...

This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We f...

Michał Myck, Centre for Economic Analysis The objective of the presentation will be to summarize results of recent research focused on the evolutio...

Between 50% and 70% of changes in the US wage structure over the last four decades are accounted for by the relative wage declines of worker groups...

Karel Neels, University of Antwerp The migrant-native gap in labour market outcomes in Belgium is among the largest of all OECD-countries. Using lo...

Most young Spaniards start their working lives with low wages and highly unstable jobs. Many of them progressively improve their working conditions...

Monika Mynarska, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Centre for Individual and Family Life-Course Studies The decision to become a pare...

Georg Graetz, Uppsala University, Institute of Labor Economics I explore human capital accumulation, signaling, and employer learning under the ass...

We analyze whether an increase in the female share of an occupation causally leads to lower relative wages in that occupation. While the literature...

The pandemic has caused sharp disruptions in work and family patterns and exacerbated chronic and life stressors for individuals and families. Impa...

Families are important sites at which individuals exchange and transmit values and practices associated with social cohesion through day-to-day int...

Katharina Dengler, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) The digital transformation will have large effects on the labour market. Previous studie...

Technological change is leading to an increase in jobs that require non-routine cognitive tasks, i.e., analytic and interactive tasks. At the same ...

A vast amount of research has studied the gendered transition to parenthood, trying to disentangle its causes and consequences. In the GENPARENT pr...

We use data from 14 European countries and provide evidence that the fall in prices of information and communication technologies (ICT) is associat...