The 15. Young Economists Conference took place on 17–18 September 2026 at the Chamber of Labour (Arbeiterkammer) in Vienna. Ulugbek Aminjonov presented the paper "The Protecting Hand: Works Councils and the Cost of Motherhood", written jointly with Yue...
On September 18 and 19, 2026, the Herbstworkshop of the Wissenschaftliche Kommission Personal took place at the Free University in Bolzano, Italy. During the autumn workshop, Laszlo Goerke presented joint work with Sven Hartmann and Yue Huang on Workplace...
It was with great pleasure that we welcomed Richard Hajdučik from Charles University in Prague as a visiting researcher at the IAAEU Library from 31 August to 9 September 2026. During his research visit, he focused on analysing illegal employment and...
In a recent article, Lieke Voorintholt (IAAEU and Trier University) , Gerard J. van den Berg, and Adriaan R. Soetevent (both at the University of Groningen) investigate the causal effect of grandparenthood on climate change worries, using British panel data....
This year's SOEP User Conference took place in Berlin from July 8 to 9. Sven Hartmann presented a paper entitled "Works councils and bonus payments", which is joint work with Yue Huang and Laszlo Goerke . The conference was a highly successful event,...
IAAEU researchers Laszlo Goerke and Yue Huang , together with Markus Grabka from the DIW in Berlin and Viola Hilbert from Leipzig University and DIW, have just published a new paper on "Industrial Relations and Working From Home in Germany during the...
The annual conference of the Royal Economic Society (RES) took place on July 6 to July 8 at Newcastle University. Laszlo Goerke presented a paper on "Mandatory Profit-sharing in a Unionised Oligopoly with Endogenous Market Structure" that builds on earlier...
From June 29 to July 3, 2026, Ulugbek Aminjonov participated in the 2026 LIS Summer Introductory Workshop on "Comparative Inequality Measurement using the LIS & LWS Databases" held at the Belval Campus of the University of Luxembourg. The workshop introduced...
Dieter Sadowski, long-serving Director of the IAAEU from 1988 to 2011, celebrated a milestone birthday on June 27. The Institute extends its warmest congratulations and best wishes for the future. Your IAAEU
IAAEU researchers Laszlo Goerke , Sven A. Hartmann and Yue Huang have published a paper titled "Councils of Contentment: Works Councils and Income Perceptions" in the Journal of Population Economics. The study investigates workplace co-determination—a...
