The conference is open to all who are interested in the problems of contemporary welfare state. Stream Themes: - Comparative methodology - Pensions - Health care - Labour market policy - Family policy - Social services and social work - Poverty and social assistance - Education - Inequalities...

The special areas of interest of the conference are: - determinants of migration, - labour migration after EU enlargement and its impact on the labour markets of the sending and the receiving countries, - macroeconomic effects of migration (remittances, balance of payments, economic growth,...