PROGRAMME
OPENING CONFERENCE OF THE ZIF RESEARCH GROUP
In Search of the Global Labour Market
Convenors: Prof. Dr. Ursula Mense-Petermann (Bielefeld) Prof. Dr. Thomas Welskopp (Bielefeld), Jun.-Prof. Dr. Anna Zaharieva (Bielefeld)
16th – 18th October 2017
MONDAY, 16TH OCTOBER 2017
15:00 Arrival / coffee
15:30 Welcome addresses by ZiF and the organisers
16:00 – 17:30 Keynote (Plenary Hall)
Michael J. Piore (MIT, Cambridge)
"Policy paradigms and the challenge to immigration and globalization"
17:30
Reception (ZiF Cafeteria)
TUESDAY, 17TH OCTOBER 2017 (ROUND TABLE ROOM)
Panel 1: Labour, or what is the commodity exchanged on labour markets?
9:30 – 10:10 Thomas Welskopp (Bielefeld)
Free or unfree labour, migration, and the question what constitutes a labour mar The problem from
an historical perspective
10:10 – 10:50 Richard Hyman (London)
Decommodification and recommodification in European labour markets: Another great transformation?
10:50 – 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 – 12:00 Christine Moll-Murata (Bochum)
Foreign engineers in the Qing dynasty and the Republic of China (1850-1950)
12:00 – 12:40 Patrik Aspers (Uppsala)
Sailing together in different shoes: market and inequality on board merchant shi
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch (ZiF Cafeteria)
Panel 2: Where do global labour markets come from?
Market Making and (organised) market actors
14:00 – 14:40 Karen Shire (Duisburg-Essen / Tokyo)
Intermediaries in the creation of a market order in cross-border labour exchange
14:40 – 15:20 Ursula Mense-Petermann (Bielefeld)
Eastern European service sontract workers in the German meat industry – A ca study in market making
and market makers of a transnational labour market
15:20 – 16:00 Peter-Paul Bänziger (Basel)
From the »International Drugs Mafia« to the »Foreign Dealer«. The history of a shadow labor market
in Switzerland, 1960-2010
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:10 Graham Hollinshead (Hertfordshire)
Chinese market-making through outward investment in South East Europe: The case of the Sino-Serbian
‘Bridge of Friendship’
17:10 – 17:50 Friederike Maier (Berlin)
Gender gaps in labour markets in times of changing gender concepts and mark conditions
19:00 Dinner (self pay)
Restaurant Stockbrügger (Turnerstraße 19, Bielefeld)
WEDNESDAY, 18TH OCTOBER 2017 (ROUND TABLE ROOM)
Panel 3: What enables a market to cross national borders?
Role of institutions, networks and conventions
9:00 – 09:40 Sigrid Quack (Duisburg-Essen)
Transnational labour markets as overlapping and multi-layered regulatory fields
9:40 – 10:20 Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick (London)
International actors and international regulation
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 11:30 Sven Kesselring (Nürtingen-Geislingen)
Work mobilities in the age of deep mediatization
11:30 - 12:10 Béla Galgóczi (Brüssel)
Intra-EU labour mobility under stress test – does it contribute to better labour allocation?
12:10 – 12:50 Alexandra Kaasch (Bielefeld)
Social regulation for global labour markets? The role of international actors and factors on the
violation and protection of social and labour rights for migrant wor
12:50 – 14:00 Lunch (ZiF Cafeteria)
Panel 4: The ‘refugee crisis’ in a global labour perspective
14:00 – 14:40 Helen Schwenken (Osnabrück)
Competing logics at work: Refugees’ labour market integration policies and proj contemporary
Germany
14:40 – 15:20 Michele Battisti (München)
The labour market integration of refugees in Germany: evidence from a field experiment
15:20 – 15:50 Coffee break
15:50 – 16:30 Anna Zaharieva (Bielefeld)
Job search and occupational mismatch of immigrants in the German labour mar
16:30 – 17:10 Eleonore Kofman (London)
From global to regional to a post Brexit hybrid? The multiple faces of UK labour migration
governance
17:30 – 18:30 Keynote (Plenary Hall)
Frédéric Docquier (Louvain-la-Neuve)
"The changing structure of immigration to the OECD: what welfare effects on m countries?"
19:30 Dinner (self pay)
Wirtshaus 1802 im Bültmannshof (Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 17A, Bielefeld)