Project workshop at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (IfZ) on 11/12 June 2008 | Invitation and Programme (PDF, 208 KB)
"Labour Market Development and Labour Market Insitutions", a project financed by the Leibniz Association that Ifo is conducting with IfZ, the Munich Institute for Contemporary History, is in its decisive phase. Preliminary results of the participating historians and economists on the development of unemployment, changes in labour-market policies and the political and public discussion of these trends will be presented (in German) at a workshop at IfZ on 11/12 June 2008. For Ifo, Dr. Martin Werding (SAM department head) and Professor Gebhard Flaig (Ifo research professor) will present empirical observations and results of econometric estimates on the role of labour-market institutions, analyzing OECD data from 1960 to the present. The IfZ researchers will focus on selected EU countries and on shorter time periods, looking in particular at the combating of mass unemployment in Germany and the UK, youth unemployment in Germany and France and long-term unemployment in Germany and Italy. An evening lecture will be given as part of the workshop by Professor Andreas Wirsching (University of Augsburg) on the topic: “Consumption instead of Work? How Individuality has Changed in the Modern Mass Society.”
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