BIBB/IAB Workshop T.A.S.K.S. (Technology, Assets, Skills, Knowledge, Specialisation)
The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) organised an international workshop on the task-based approach. The workshop had taken place at the Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany, on May 17-18, 2010.
The evolution of skill demand and wage structures in recent decades continues to motivate economic and sociological research. A growing body of the literature acknowledges that traditional labor demand models based on the differentiation between one or two skill-categories are ill-suited to explain recent labor market developments. In contrast, the predictions from task-based approaches typically are much better in line with the empirical evidence. This workshop invited empirical and theoretical contributions using the task-based approach from all areas of labor market research and related fields such as the educational research, industrial economics, international comparisons, or public finance. Keynote and invited speakers were David Autor (MIT Department of Economics), Christian Dustmann (Department of Economics, UCL) and Maarten Goos (Faculty of Business and Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). For more information please see the conference website.
