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New fun­ding: Leib­niz As­so­cia­ti­on ap­pro­ves fun­ding for the se­cond phase of the Leib­niz Sci­ence Cam­pus "SOEP Re­gio­Hub".

New pu­bli­ca­ti­on: E. Damd­in­su­ren, M. Mit­ko­va, A. Za­ha­rie­va "Pa­ren­tal Net­works, Wage Ex­pec­ta­ti­ons, and In­ter­ge­nera­tio­nal Edu­ca­tio­nal Mo­bi­li­ty", Jour­nal of Eco­no­mics Be­ha­vi­or and Or­ga­niza­ti­on, 218, p. 146-​175.

Wel­co­me to the new re­se­arch em­ployee Asi­ma­maw Bele­te, who will be en­rol­led in the RTG 2865 "Co­py­ing with Un­cer­tain­ty in Dy­na­mic Eco­no­mies" and Bie­le­feld Gra­dua­te School of Eco­no­mics and Ma­nage­ment (BIGS­EM).

New pu­bli­ca­ti­on: E. Damd­in­su­ren, A. Za­ha­rie­va (2023) "Ex­pec­ta­ti­on For­ma­ti­on and Lear­ning in the La­bour Mar­ket with On-​the-Job Se­arch and Nash Bar­gai­ning", La­bour Eco­no­mics 81: 102-​311

New pu­bli­ca­ti­on: K. Rick­mei­er (2023) "Na­vi­ga­ting Re­gio­nal Bar­ri­ers to Job Mo­bi­li­ty: The Role of Op­por­tu­ni­ty Struc­tu­res in In­di­vi­du­al Job-​to-JobTransitions, So­cial Sci­en­ces, Spe­cial Issue on Re­gio­nal De­ve­lo­p­ment Dy­na­mics and Their So­cial, Eco­no­mic and Po­li­ti­cal Con­se­quen­ces", 12(5), 295,

Wel­co­me to the new re­se­arch em­ployee Maria Schä­fer, who will be en­rol­led in the Bie­le­feld Gra­dua­te School of Eco­no­mics and Ma­nage­ment (BIGS­EM).

New book pu­bli­ca­ti­on: "In Se­arch of the Glo­bal La­bour Mar­ket", pu­blished by Brill, Lei­den/NL, edi­ted by U. Mense-​Petermann,T. Wels­kopp and A. Za­ha­rie­va

Dr. Er­de­ne­bul­gan Damd­in­su­ren suc­cess­ful­ly de­fen­ded his PhD dis­ser­ta­ti­on on the 5th of April 2022, congra­tu­la­ti­ons!

Wel­co­me to the new re­se­arch em­ployee Ma­ri­ya Afoni­na, who will be en­rol­led in the Bie­le­feld Gra­dua­te School of Eco­no­mics and Ma­nage­ment (BIGS­EM).

Anna Za­ha­rie­va pres­ents her work at the an­nu­al con­gress of the Eu­ropean Eco­no­mic As­so­cia­ti­on (EEA-​ESEM, 23-27 Au­gust), at the anual con­fe­rence of the Eu­ropean As­so­cia­ti­on of La­bour Eco­no­mists (EALE, 16-18 Sep­tem­ber) and at the an­nu­al mee­ting of the Ger­man Eco­no­mic As­so­cia­ti­on (VfS, 26-29 Sep­tem­ber).

Wel­co­me to the new re­se­arch em­ployees Ste­fan Leo­pold and Kat­rin Rick­mei­er, who will work in the frame­work of the Leib­niz Sci­en­ce­Cam­pus SOEP Re­gio­Hub "Stu­dy­ing re­gio­nal de­ve­lo­p­ment dy­na­mics and their po­li­ti­cal con­se­quen­ces"

On the 5th of Fe­bruary 2021 Sevak Ala­ver­dy­an suc­cess­ful­ly de­fen­ded his Dis­ser­ta­ti­on en­tit­led "So­cial Con­tacts and Re­fer­rals in Se­arch and Matching Mo­dels of the La­bour Mar­ket". Congra­tu­la­ti­ons!

On the 26th of Fe­bruary Anna Za­ha­rie­va will give a vir­tu­al se­mi­nar at Heriot-​Watt Uni­ver­si­ty (Edin­burgh, UK) en­tit­led "Im­mi­gra­ti­on, So­cial Net­works and Oc­cu­pa­tio­nal Mis­match".

Anna Za­ha­rie­va be­co­mes a mem­ber of the Sci­en­ti­fic Ad­vi­so­ry Board for the Jour­nal of Mi­gra­ti­on Stu­dies (Zeit­schrift für Mi­gra­ti­ons­for­schung)

New Working Paper

Ala­ver­dy­an S. (2021) "Se­arch Chan­nels of Wor­k­ers and Firms over the Busi­ness Cycle" Bie­le­feld Working Pa­pers in Eco­no­mics and Ma­nage­ment No. 03-​2021

New Working Paper

Damd­in­su­ren E. (2021) "So­cial Op­ti­mum, He­te­ro­ge­ne­ous Wor­k­ers and Firms in the La­bour Mar­ket with On-​the-Job Se­arch" Bie­le­feld Working Pa­pers in Eco­no­mics and Ma­nage­ment No. 01-​2021

Call for ap­p­li­ca­ti­ons

7 re­se­arch as­so­cia­te/doc­to­ral po­si­ti­ons at the Leibniz-​ScienceCampus SO­EP­Re­gio­Hub at Bie­le­feld Uni­ver­si­ty (SOEP@UBi) “Stu­dy­ing Re­gio­nal De­ve­lo­p­ment Dy­na­mics and their Po­li­ti­cal Con­se­quen­ces”, more in­for­ma­ti­on is avail­able at www.uni-​bielefeld.de/soep-​regiohub

New pu­bli­ca­ti­on

M. Re­bi­en, M. Stops, A. Za­ha­rie­va "For­mal Se­arch and Re­fer­rals from a Firm's Per­spec­ti­ve", In­ter­na­tio­nal Eco­no­mic Re­view, 2020;61(4): 1679-​1748

In­vi­ted lec­tu­re

On Tu­es­day, 10th of No­vem­ber 2020, Anna Za­ha­rie­va gave a vir­tu­al talk at the In­sti­tu­te for La­bour Law and In­dus­tri­al Re­la­ti­ons (IAAEU) in Trier. The title of the talk was "So­cial Net­works, Pro­mo­ti­ons and the Glass-​Ceiling Ef­fect".

In­vi­ted Talk

on 11th of No­vem­ber Anna Za­ha­rie­va gives an in­vi­ted vir­tu­al lec­tu­re at the In­sti­tu­te for La­bour Law and In­dus­tri­al Re­la­ti­ons, Trier Uni­ver­si­ty, the title of the lec­tu­re is "So­cial Net­works, Pro­mo­ti­ons, and the Glass-​Ceiling Ef­fect".

New Jour­nal Pu­bli­ca­ti­on

Re­bi­en M., Stops M., Za­ha­rie­va A. (2020) "For­mal Se­arch and Re­fer­rals from a Firm's Per­spec­ti­ve", In­ter­na­tio­nal Eco­no­mic Re­view

https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12477

New Leip­niz Re­se­arch Cam­pus

Anna Za­ha­rie­va and Her­bert Dawid are among re­se­ar­chers from Bie­le­feld Uni­ver­si­ty and the DIW Ber­lin, who will study eco­no­mic, po­li­ti­cal and so­cial aspects of re­gio­nal he­te­ro­ge­ni­ty wit­hin the newly es­tab­lished Leip­niz Re­se­arch Cam­pus "SOEP Regio Hub". In their work Za­ha­rie­va and Dawid will com­bi­ne the em­pe­ri­cal ana­ly­sis, main­ly re­ly­ing on SOEP data, with dy­na­mic mo­del­ling ap­proa­ches. Anna Za­ha­rie­va is also Co-​speaker of the Cam­pus which will re­cei­ve fun­ding from the Leip­niz As­so­cia­ti­on till 2024.

New Working Paper

Dawid, H., Mit­ko­va, M., Za­ha­rie­va, A. (2019) Op­ti­mal Pro­mo­ti­ons of Com­pe­ting Firms in a Fric­tio­nal La­bour Mar­ket with Or­ga­niza­tio­nal Hier­ar­chies, Bie­le­feld Working Pa­pers 03-​2019

New Working Paper

Ala­ver­dy­an, S., Za­ha­rie­va, A. (2019) Im­mi­gra­ti­on, So­cial Net­works and Oc­cu­pa­tio­nal Mis­match, Bie­le­feld Workin Pa­pers No. 4-​2019

Clo­sing Con­fe­rence of the ZIF Re­se­arch Group "In Se­arch of the Glo­bal La­bour Mar­ket", 31.01. - 01.02.

The ZIF Re­se­arch Group "In Se­arch of the Glo­bal La­bour Mar­ket" - which is a joint pro­ject Ur­su­la Mense-​Petermann and Tho­mas Wels­kopp - will hold a large clo­sing con­fe­rence. The con­fe­rence will take place in the ZIF Ple­na­ry Hall, 31.01. - 02.20.2019. The exact pro­gramm is at­ta­ched.

Pos­ter Pro­gram­me

New Working Paper

Damd­in­su­ren, E., Za­ha­rie­va, A. (2018) Ex­pec­ta­ti­on For­ma­ti­on and Lear­ning in the La­bour Mar­ket with On-​the-Job-Search and Nash Bar­gai­ning, Bie­le­feld Working Pa­pers Nr. 10-​2018.

Mas­ter The­sis Award

A mas­ter gra­dua­te in Quan­ti­ta­ti­ve Eco­no­mics -- Le Quynh Nhu Nguy­en -- is awar­ded a Prize of the best Mas­ter the­sis with prac­ti­cal re­le­van­ce by the Erich-​Gutenberg-Gesellschaft (Her­ford). The Mas­ter the­sis was su­per­vi­sed by J.-Prof. Dr. Anna Za­ha­rie­va and Prof. Dr. Her­bert Dawid.

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New Working Paper

Neu­gart, M., Za­ha­rie­va, A. (2018) So­cial Net­works, Pro­mo­ti­ons, and the Glass-​Ceiling-Effect, Cen­ter for Ma­the­ma­ti­cal Eco­no­mics Working Paper No. 601

BA 2025 Ar­beits­markt­po­li­tik in Zei­ten von De­gi­ta­li­sie­rung und Ar­beits­kräf­te­man­gel

A pu­blic lec­tu­re at the ZIF with a topic "BA 2020 Ar­beits­markt­po­li­tik in Zei­ten von De­gi­ta­li­sie­rung und Ar­beits­kräf­te­man­gel" will be given by Mi­cha­el Kös­ter from the Ger­man Fe­deral Em­ploy­ment Agen­cy (Bun­des­agen­tur für Ar­beit) on the 4th of July (18:15). The talk will be in Ger­man. Plea­se see the pos­ter for more de­tails.

Mi­gra­ti­on and Re­fu­gees from a Glo­bal La­bour Mar­ket Per­spec­ti­ve

A work­shop at the ZIF with a title "Mi­gra­ti­on and Re­fu­gees from a Glo­bal La­bour Mar­ket Per­spec­ti­ve" will be held on the 5th-​6th of July. It is an in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry work­shop, but there are sever­al pre­sen­ta­ti­ons by eco­no­mists on the pro­gram.

The re­se­arch ma­ga­zi­ne 'Bi.Re­se­arch' has pu­blished an in­ter­view with Anna Za­ha­rie­va ex­plai­ning the Po­ten­ti­al Con­se­quen­ces of Glo­ba­liza­ti­on.

Anna Za­ha­rie­va gives a talk in the DICE Re­se­arch Se­mi­nar at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Düs­sel­dorf on the 24th of April, paper title "So­cial Net­works, Pro­mo­ti­ons, and the Glass-​Ceiling-Effect", joint work with Mi­cha­el Neu­gart.

New Working Paper Ac­cep­ted

If­tik­har, Z., Za­ha­rie­va, A. (2018) Ge­ne­ral Equi­li­bri­um Ef­fects of Im­mi­gra­ti­on in Ger­ma­ny: Se­arch and Matching Ap­proach. Re­view of Eco­no­mic Dy­na­mics

Anna Za­ha­rie­va (Bie­le­feld Uni­ver­si­ty), Mi­cha­el Neu­gart (Uni­ver­si­ty of Darm­stadt), and Mi­che­le Bat­tis­ti (CE­Si­fo, Mu­nich) are or­ga­ni­sing a work­shop "So­cial Net­works, Re­fer­rals and Neigh­bour­hood Ef­fects in Fric­tio­nal La­bour Mar­kets" on the 16th of April at the ZIF.

ZIF issue 1/2018 about the ope­ning con­fe­rence of the re­se­arch group "In Se­arch of the Glo­bal La­bour Mar­ket" (Anna Za­ha­rie­va, Tho­mas Wels­kopp, Ur­su­la Mense-​Petermann), http://www.uni-​bielefeld.de/(en)/ZiF/Pu­bli­ka­tio­nen/Mit­tei­lun­gen/Aus­ga­ben/

Anna Za­ha­rie­va par­ti­ci­pa­tes in the ASSA mee­ting in Phil­adel­phia, paper title "For­mal Se­arch and Re­fer­rals from a Firm's Per­spec­ti­ve", 5-7th of Ja­nuary 2018.

Anna Za­ha­rie­va gives a talk at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Darm­stadt "For­mal Se­arch and Re­fer­rals from a Firm's Per­spec­ti­ve", (No­vem­ber 22)

"Im­mi­gra­ti­on: Chan­ges and Chal­len­ges for the Ger­man La­bour Mar­ket"

Anna Za­ha­rie­va gives a key-​note speech at the An­ni­versa­ry Work­shop "Im­mi­gra­ti­on: Chan­ges and Chal­len­ges for the Ger­man La­bour Mar­ket", 21st of Oc­to­ber, Kon­stanz Uni­ver­si­ty

Ope­ning Con­fe­rence of the ZiF Re­se­arch Group "In Se­arch of the Glo­bal La­bour Mar­ket"

Anna Za­ha­rie­va is or­ga­ni­zing an ope­ning con­fe­rence of the ZiF re­se­arch group "In Se­arch of the Glo­bal La­bour Mar­ket" with two key-​note talks by Mi­cha­el J. Piore (MIT, Cam­bridge) "Po­li­cy Pa­ra­digs and the Chal­len­ge to Im­mi­gra­ti­on and Glo­ba­liza­ti­on", 16th of Oc­to­ber at 16:00, Fre­de­ric Doc­quier (Uni­ver­sité Ca­tho­li­que de Lou­vain) "The Chan­ging Struc­tu­re of Im­mi­gra­ti­on to the OECD: what wel­fa­re ef­fects on mem­ber coun­tries?" , 18th of Oc­to­ber at 17:30. Both pre­sen­ta­ti­ons will take place in the ZiF Ple­na­ry Hall.

New DFG Pro­ject

The Ger­man Sci­ence Founda­ti­on has de­ci­ded to pro­vi­de fun­ding for the re­se­arch pro­ject "The Role of Pro­fes­sio­nal Net­works and Firm Hier­ar­chies for In­di­vi­du­al Ca­re­ers and Wage Ine­qua­li­ty" with Anna Za­ha­rie­va and Her­bert Dawid as Co-​Pls. The pro­ject will run for three years and com­bi­nes se­arch and matching theo­ry with agent-​based si­mu­la­ti­ons to ana­ly­se the role of pro­fes­sio­nal net­works and firm hier­ar­chies for in­di­vi­du­al wage dy­na­mics, in­co­me ine­qua­li­ty and in­ter­ge­nera­tio­nal mo­bi­li­ty.

New ZiF Re­se­arch Group

Anna Za­ha­rie­va toge­ther with two col­le­agues, Ur­su­la Mense-​Petermann (Fa­cul­ty of So­cio­lo­gy) and Tho­mas Wels­kopp (Fa­cul­ty of His­to­ry) suc­cess­ful­ly ap­p­lied for an in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry ZiF re­se­arch group "In Se­arch of the Glo­bal La­bour Mar­ket". Du­ring the ZiF re­si­dence pe­ri­od bet­ween Oc­to­ber 2017 and July 2018 more than 25 re­se­arch fel­lows from lea­ding Ger­man and for­eign Uni­ver­si­ties will visit Bie­le­feld in order to join their ef­fort in ana­ly­zing la­bour mar­ket glo­ba­liza­ti­on ten­den­ci­es, in­ter­na­tio­na­liza­ti­on pat­terns and wor­ker mo­bi­li­ty flows across the globe.