The organizers of the 2021 annual conference invite papers that discuss drivers and challenges of social policies, including but not restricted to social policies related to the COVID-19 crisis. Papers can have a global, world regional, national, subnational, and/or local perspective. Especially...

The Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution (PolEcCon) Summer School 2021 is aimed at young researchers in the early stage of their careers as PhD students and Postdocs, notably in the fields of Economics and Political Science. The School provides research-oriented lectures by senior...

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,...

Speaker: Professor Dr. Thomas Straubhaar , Universität Hamburg, Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen. Prof. Dr. Thomas Straubhaar spricht im Rahmen des IWH Policy Talks über das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen. An seinen Vortrag schließt sich...

The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers from a broad range of economic disciplines to present and discuss ongoing research leveraging data sets made possible through the digitization of economic activity. The conference will have a focus on work at the intersection of...

Family structures in all industrial and post-industrial societies are changing rapidly, as is the economic security that is granted or can be granted within families. Social security systems are challenged to react to these changes, for they shape current developments and also set the course for...

Auf der Konferenz „Kommunales Infrastruktur-Management“ werden wissenschaftliche Arbeiten aus den Bereichen der Ökonomik, der Rechtswissenschaften und der Verwaltungswissenschaften präsentiert, in denen aktuelle Fragestellungen mit Bezug zum kommunalen Infrastruktur-Management untersucht...

The PEGNet conference 2019 will provide a platform for leading development scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to reflect on the determinants, elements, impacts and linkages of effective social protection schemes. In particular, the conference will seek to provide answers to questions such...

We invite papers that discuss these developments and related social policy changes. For example, how do we make sense of parallel processes of universalizing social policies in some fields and places, and increasingly exclusionary rhetoric of social protection in others? Given that the...

This year’s focus is on the formation of skill supply and skill demand and their consequences for educational and employment biographies. We therefore particularly welcome policy relevant contributions, both theoretical and applied, on topics such as: - Early childhood determinants of skill...