Third International BIBB/IAB/ZEW Conference on "Changing Tasks - Consequences for Inequality"

The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) are pleased to invite you to attend the jointly organized third international TASKS conference. The conference, financed by funds of the research programme SEEK, is concerned with the role of job tasks for labour market outcomes. A special focus of the conference is on the change of job tasks over time and its potential impact on wage inequality. In many industrialized countries the wage distribution has changed significantly in the last decades, which has led to an increased wage inequality. Simultaneously, we observe a changing task structure in those economies. Hence, the conference aims at understanding the relation¬ship between increasing wage and employment inequality on the one hand and the changing task structure on the other hand.

The scientific committee therefore encourages contributions from all areas of labour economics and related fields focusing on the role of tasks in explaining changes in the wage and employment structure. Sociological, pedagogical or cross-disciplinary perspectives utilizing the task framework to address inequalities like unequal access to jobs or occupational positions due to educational or personal backgrounds or further aspects of inequality are expressly welcome. Moreover, the conference invites contributions using the task-based approach for clarification of related research questions, e.g. with regard to technology, changing skill demand, occupational mobility, local labour markets, trade, offshoring, the role of institutions, labour market imperfections, measuring tasks or operationalizing tasks and task groups. Both, empirical and theoretical papers are welcome.

Keynote Speakers

• David Autor (MIT Economics, Cambridge MA, US)
• Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia, CA)
• Michael Handel (Northeastern University Boston, US)
• Uta Schönberg (University College London, UK)

Scientific Committee

• Bernd Fitzenberger (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
• Christian Dustmann (University College London, UK)
• Maarten Goos (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE)
• Alexandra Spitz-Oener (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
• Heike Solga (WZB, Berlin)
• Olaf Struck (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg)
• Reinhold Weiß (BIBB, Bonn)
• Holger Bonin (ZEW, Mannheim, Germany)
• Joachim Möller (IAB, Nuremberg, Germany)

Call for Papers

Call for Papers (as PDF, 282 KB)

Programme

Programme (as PDF, 232 KB)

Paper Submission Procedure

The deadline for submission is December 1, 2013. Please submit electronic versions of extended abstracts (3 pages) or full papers in PDF to tasks@iab.de. You will be notified on acceptance of your paper by January 15, 2014. All presenters will be asked to submit a full paper version until May 1, 2014. Please register no later than May 1, 2014.

SEEK

The key aim of the SEEK programme is to achieve an improved understanding how policy measures should be best conceived to promote innovation, human capital formation, IT adoption, and the responsible stewardship of natural resources, with the ultimate goal of supporting European productivity and competitiveness. This conferences is supported by funds of the SEEK research programme.