This international symposium aims to bring together scholars studying standards, their new content and their new roles, across the substantive areas of: the financial sector (including accountancy), the environment (including climate-related standards), labour, industrial and organizational...

The main objectives of the conference are to improve the understanding of (i) how natural disasters affect household welfare, and (ii) how policy-makers can overcome the behavioral, political, technical, and operative hurdles involved in disaster risk preventive interventions.

We invite papers or research ideas presenting empirical evidence within applied micro economics and program evaluation. Relevant topics include (but are not restricted to): returns to education; the effects of welfare reforms; the efficacy of job training programs; social security and the effect...

The overarching theme of this conference is the "Insecure Perspectives of the Low Skilled".

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