NIESR Staff Seminars

A series of lunchtime seminars by NIESR staff and visiting academics on a wide ranging number of topics covering current research and future areas of study.  Seminars take place over lunchtime from 1-2pm. Details of forthcoming seminars can be found in the link.

Seminar ‘More unequal, but more mobile? Earnings inequality and mobility in OECD countries’

Wednesday June 28th 2017 Alexander Hijzen (OECD will give a presentation titled ‘More unequal, but more mobile? Earnings inequality and mobility in OECD countries’

Subscribe: You can subscribe for  this seminar by sending an email to: secrpool@cpb.nl  Please enter your name, surname and affiliation.

CPB seminars are aimed at researchers and policymakers. During the seminars preliminary research findings are presented for discussion. These preliminary findings are not intended for publicity. If you are a journalist and interested in one of our seminars, please contact Suzanne van Gils: 06 21560776.

Labour Market Matching Processes in the 21st Century

The purpose of the event is to bring together policy makers, academics, and practitioners to engage in a lively discussion on four timely topics related to labour market matching processes:

• Refugee labour market integration,
• Changing nature of jobs,
• Learning Technology Data Modeling, Curating and Analitics, and
• Vacancy mining and analysis

EUROFRAME Conference “Growth and inequality: Challenges for EU economies” – Call for papers

The EUROFRAME group of research institutes (CASE, CPB, DIW, ESRI, ETLA, IfW, NIESR, OFCE, PROMETEIA, WIFO) will hold its fourteenth annual Conference on Economic Policy Issues in the European Union in Berlin on Friday 9 June 2017. The aim of the conference is to provide an economic forum for debate on economic policy issues relevant in the European context.

Submission Procedure

Extended abstracts (2 pages) should be submitted by e-mail until 15 February 2017 to euroframe.conference@ofce.sciences-po.fr. Abstracts should contain: paper’s title, authors’ names and affiliations, and contact details of the corresponding author.

Paper acceptance or rejection will be notified to corresponding authors by email by end-March.

Full papers should be received by 22 May.

Selected papers will be published after a reviewing process in a Conference Proceedings – Special issue of the Revue de l’OFCE.

Is a longer working life for everyone? Exploring emerging inequalities among older workers

Working longer is the fundamental response to the challenges posed by population ageing to European welfare states. FACTAGE (www.factage.eu), a new CEPS-led European Joint Programming Initiative project, explores where and how the extension of working lives could lead to the emergence of socioeconomic inequalities.

A Fiscal Stabilisation Function for the Euro Area

Annual CEPS-Intereconomics Conference: A Fiscal Stabilisation Function for the Euro Area

The Five Presidents’ Report of 2015 has called for a macroeconomic stabiliser at the EMU level that would be capable of dealing with asymmetric shocks. A European unemployment benefits scheme (EUBS) is one potential stabilisation mechanism, although other proposals for devising risk-sharing tools that could be deployed across the Economic and Monetary Union have surfaced over the years. This high-level conference will explore and compare the advantages and disadvantages of the various schemes entertained. Which one is best suited for the member countries of EMU? Which one holds out the greatest promise of reducing the risk of deep recession? Do such schemes inevitably lead to moral hazard or are there practical safeguards that can be built into their provisions to minimise this risk from materialising? Are any of these proposals politically feasible in the near term?