For the workshop, we invite PhD-students in sociology and political science to submit abstracts related to the topic of “Ageing Societies and the Welfare State”. The contributions may be qualitative, quantitative, or conceptual. Country-comparative studies are especially welcome.

This conference will focus on policy-oriented theoretical and empirical research which is meant to contribute to this debate, based on a careful analysis of existing constraints and relevant goals. Papers dealing with one or more of the following issues are particularly welcome. - Welfare state...

This year’s topic is “New Challenges to Infrastructure Theory and Policy – Markets and Planning, Development and Sustainability”. The sectoral foci are transport, energy, telecommunication & internet, water, waste, and the health sector.

Unter der Schirmherrschaft des Bundesministers für Wirtschaft und Technologie Michael Glos feiert das Praxisforum für das öffentliche Auftragswesen in Deutschland in diesem Jahr sein zehnjähriges Jubiläum. Am 25. und 26. September 2008 kommen unter dem Stichwort "Auftraggeber treffen...

Longevity risk is an increasingly important risk for pension plan and annuity providers and, indeed, individuals to recognize, quantify and manage. It is not such an immediate or even as large a risk as, say, interest rate or inflation risk, two of the key risks that pension funds are now...

The core of the Conference discusses various dimensions of Demographic Change and Sustainable Development in Europe from different perspectives, country-specific experiences and theoretical as well as empirical approaches. This hopes to contribute in pushing the frontier of knowledge and to...

Aim of the course is introducing students to the origins and developments of social policy, to principles and practices of benefit systems and social services, to European social policy, methods of comparative research, and to available quantitative and qualitative data sets.

The first two days are focused on academic research, with contributed papers and with two keynote speakers: Brigitte Madrian, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, will talk about the behavioral economics of pension savings and Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College, will address saving adequacy as...

Topics: - Strukturen kommen in Bewegung – ist die Einzelpraxis ein Auslaufmodell? Wo geht die Reise hin? - Mehr Wettbewerb durch Einzelverträge? – die Sicht der Bundesregierung! - Das KV-Monopol wankt – wie sehen zukünftige Zuständigkeiten von Körperschaften und Verbänden aus? -...

All CESifo Research Network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic within the domains of employment and social protection. Both domains are to be broadly defined, the former including, in particular, issues of the organisation of labour. The latter domain, in...