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...

Demokratie muss gelebt werden, um sich entfalten und wirksam werden zu können. In welchem Ausmaß Menschen dies auch tatsächlich tun können und wollen, hängt auch davon ab, unter welchen Bedingungen sie arbeiten und ob in der Erwerbsarbeit selbst Demokratie gelebt wird. Gewerkschaftliche...

The BSE Labor Economics Summer School covers a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, this summer school offers courses that will cover recent developments within the macro-labor and micro-labor contexts. In each course, both theoretical and...

The submission of papers in the following areas is particularly encouraged: - Conditions and effects of green growth vs. de-growth, capitalism without growth; - Globalisation and impact of catching up of the global South; - Macroeconomic modelling and empirics of socio-ecological transition; -...

Labor related issues have been studied in the economics profession from a number of different angles. The Barcelona GSE Labor Economics Summer School covers a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, this summer school offers courses that will cover...

In recent years an exciting economic literature has emerged that seeks to understand disparities in economic development across countries by going far back in history. Distant historical events can often be linked to long-lasting effects on institutions, culture, human capital and technology; in...

We aim at creating a forum of junior and senior experts to discuss cutting-edge research in the fields of economic growth and fluctuations (EGF). We do not want to limit the range of topics, but rather be broad and open to the best type of research conducted in the EGF field.

We encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical papers addressing issues including: - The causes and consequences of the spatial distribution of economic activity. - The evolution of economic geography in response to globalization. - The interaction between trade, geography and growth. -...

The workshop aims to bring together researchers in the fields of quantitative and empirical macroeconomics with a special focus on income dynamics and the family. Topics shall include income dynamics, within-household insurance mechanisms against individual income risk, household formation,...

The workshop will cover research related to how economic or other factors as well as public policy can affect the health, well-being, and human capital formation of infants and children. Examples would include: the effects of early shocks and interventions on child health and development, the...