2nd IWH Senior Workshop on Future Labour Markets (FLAME)

The IWH Senior Workshop on Future Labour Markets (FLAME) brings together leading international scholars to discuss cutting-edge research on labour market transformations. Participation is by invitation only, ensuring a focused and rigorous exchange at the research frontier.

Who

Keynote Lecture: Benjamin Schoefer (University of California, Berkeley)

Where

IWH, conference room

Personal details

Benjamin Schoefer is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD from Harvard University.

Agenda

Impressions of the FLAME workshop
(Photos: IWH)

Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia

Andrea Weber, Central European University

Alexander L.P. Willen, Norwegian School of Economics

Alan Manning, London School of Economics

Katrine Løken, Norwegian School of Economics

Keynote Speaker: Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and IWH

The inaugural FLAME workshop took place in June 2025. Since then, FLAME has been held annually, bringing together researchers from leading institutions in North America and Europe to present and discuss work on key questions in labour economics. Contributions have addressed, among other topics, the effects of minimum wages, unionisation, skill formation, firms’ wage-setting practices, and firms’ adjustment to changing economic conditions. While the workshop is firmly grounded in rigorous frontier research, the discussions also highlight the contribution labour economics can make to addressing some of the most pressing economic and social challenges of our time.