18th Workshop on Labour Economics, March 26 - 27, 2026

The workshop offers a venue for researchers to network and to exchange their most recent findings and ideas. We encourage both theoretical and empirically oriented submissions. We welcome contributions on topics and perspectives related to labour and personnel economics, including research in the fields of well-being, pay schemes and labour market institutions, as well as education, health, gender or migration economics. We particularly encourage PhD students to submit their research. A time slot of up to 45 minutes is allotted for each presentation. We aim to assign senior workshop participants as discussants to papers presented by PhD students.

We are happy to announce that this year’s keynote presentation on Coal Phaseout and Jobs will be given by Michel Serafinelli (King's College, London).

There will be special sessions on counterfactual impact evaluation jointly organised with the Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation (CC-ME) of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. To have papers considered for these sessions, researchers should explicitly state their interest when submitting.

Interested researchers are invited to submit electronic versions of extended abstracts or full papers (preferred) no later than January 07th, 2026, here or via mail to wle[at]iaaeu.de. If accepted, full papers must be submitted by March 01st, 2026. A notification of acceptance for presentation will be sent by the beginning of February 2026.

We charge a conference fee of 120 EUR to all participants, covering the costs of lunches, the social event, and the conference dinner.

Local Organisers
Laszlo Goerke & Robert Preuß
For further information, please visit our website at: http://www.iaaeu.de/WLE2026. Information on past workshops can be found here.