About IWPLMS

The International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation is an annual international meeting of experts specialized in labour market segmentation approach. It is coordinated by an International Steering Committee. Each year the papers are built around a central axis proposed to the participants of the meeting as a guide for submitting projects. The theme of the next annual meeting that will be held in Bamberg is "Education and Training, Skills and the Labour Market"

The Members of the Steering Committee of the IWPLMS are:

Jill Rubery (Manchester Business School), Gerhard Bosch (University of Duisburg-Essen), Peter Brosnan (Griffith University), Iain Campbell (RMIT University), Pilar Conzales (University of Porto), Albert Recio (University of Barcelona), Francois Michon (IRES, Paris), Maria Karamessini (University of Panteion), Pertti Koistinen (Tampere University), Paola Villa (University of Trento), Philippe Mehaut (Université de Provence Aix-Marseille), Samuel Rosenberg (Roosevelt University)

The Members of the Local Organizing Committee of the Conference 2011 are:

Gerhard Bosch (University of Duisburg-Essen), Dorothea Voss-Dahm (University of Duisburg-Essen), Olaf Struck (University of Bamberg), Margrit Seuling (University of Bamberg), Gernot Mühge (University of Duisburg-Essen), Sandra Eder (University of Duisburg-Essen), Dominik Postels (University of Duisburg-Essen), Ute Scharnowski (University of Duisburg-Essen), Monika Spies (University of Duisburg-Essen), Beate Weiss (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Previous Conferences

31st Conference –National Models of Employment and Economic, Environmental and Social Sustainability, Valencia (Spain), 2010.

30th Conference – Social policy as a productive factor, Tampere (Finland), 2009.

29th Conference – Modernising labour market institutions: are current labour market institutions capable of meeting the needs of the twenty-first century? Porto (Portugal), 2008.

28th Conference – Reshaping Employment Systems: Firms Unions and Individual Strategies, Aix-en-Provence (France), 2007.

27th Conference – National Patterns of Labour Market Integration and Social Exclusion over the Life Course, Växjö (Sweden), 2006.

26th Conference – Dynamics of National Models of Employment, Berlin (Germany), 2005.

25th Conference – Intergenerational Change, the Welfare State and the Labour Market, Brisbane (Australia), 2004.

24th Conference - Technical and Organisational Change: The Impact on Employment and Social Equity, Rome (Italy), 2003.

23rd Conference - Job Quality, Spetses (Greece), 2002.