This two-day conference (starting at Thursday noon and ending on Friday afternoon) seeks to bring together researchers addressing different aspects of social policy, e.g. migration and integration, unemployment insurance, welfare system, pension policy, education policy, family policy, and...

Topics: - Spatial mobility in the labor market and the educational system ; - Mobility decisions of the unemployed ; - Gendered and household mobility patterns ; - Spatial mobility and social networks ; - Spatial mobility in the context of neighborhoods ; - (Im-)mobility patterns and mobility...

The workshop provides an opportunity for graduate students to present their ongoing work in the field of theoretical and empirical labor market research and receive feedback from leading scholars in the discipline. Topics: - Labor supply, labor demand and unemployment ; - Evaluation of labor...

The 5th Workshop on Spatial Dimensions of the Labour Market focuses on a broad range of topics related to regional labour markets. This year, a special focus is on aspects revolving around the Covid-19 crisis. Covid-19 is hitting local labour markets at a time when megatrends related to...

Topics: - Unemployment, labor supply and labor demand; - Inequality, poverty and discrimination; - Evaluation of labor market institutions and policies; - Wages and productivity; - Occupations; - Education, qualification and job tasks; - Gender and family; - Migration and international labor...

Climate change is a long term threat to human societies with expected huge impacts on health, economies and welfare. Somehow similar to a pandemic, but with more persistent and irreversible consequences. Even more than the fight against Covid-19, climate change control is a difficult and complex...

Die sozialwissenschaftliche Promotionswerkstatt Rhein-Ruhr richtet sich an Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden aus sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen sowie angrenzenden Fächern, die an einer Dissertation mit Bezug zu mindestens einem der folgenden Themenfelder arbeiten: Arbeit, Arbeitsmarkt,...

The 17th annual ESPAnet conference in Stockholm will increase the interest to bridge research on migration, social protection and European welfare states, thus creating a solid foundation for evidence-based policymaking, not only in Sweden but also internationally. Topics: European refugee...

The 16th annual conference of the ESPAnet will be an exciting opportunity to discuss the challenges, problems and future prospect of European welfare systems at the time of great political, economic and environmental uncertainties of the globalized world. For centuries the welfare state in...

The aim is to bring together social policy experts and practitioners from Baltic States and other European countries, to share latest research, experiences and best practices in the field of social policy analyses and data.