Presentation on the annual meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Verein für Socialpolitik, the topic of this year's core conference of the annual meeting was "Growth and the 'sociale Frage'". It was intellectual debates on the 'sociale Frage’ that led to the founding of the association in 1873.

Current work on other topics was also presented at the open conference. Jan Cornelius Peters presented a joint paper with Annekatrin Niebuhr and Duncan Roth from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg entitled "Dynamic agglomeration effects of foreigners and natives - The role of experience in high-quality sectors, tasks and establishments". The authors examine the wage growth of workers over the course of individual employment histories and the observation that wages in rural areas grow more slowly on average than wages in agglomerations. Their findings so far indicate that about half of the slower wage growth in rural areas can be explained by the industries, tasks and establishments in which workers gain their work experience. On average, they offer fewer opportunities to accumulate new knowledge than jobs in metropolitan areas.

Link to Working Paper: https://doi.org/10.48720/IAB.DP.2224