The conference organizers welcome submissions on any topic related to the general theme of economic behavior and inequality, including but not limited to: - Formation of inequality in various key outcomes and the role of economic behavior; - Role of heterogeneity and biases in behavior and...

This workshop will be framed around how we should fundamentally understand welfare theory, in the wake of findings from behavioural and experimental microeconomics, as an enterprise intended to be relevant to policy and mechanism design. It is structured so as to have three elements in...

We welcome empirical papers about any aspect of inequality in economic outcomes (household income, consumption, wealth, earnings, employment) in developed societies, and papers that assess how welfare states are responding, or might respond.

The ESRC and British Academy (BA) are co-hosting a unique scoping workshop designed to explore issues around sustainable prosperity. This interactive event aims to bring a diverse range of people and perspectives together to discuss novel ideas and fresh approaches to the issue of building an...

This doctoral workshop invites papers dealing theoretically, conceptually and empirically with such pressures and with the ever shifting boundary between the public and the private in contemporary European societies. Papers might explore questions such as: - Business and welfare - State...

The aim of this Ph.d. workshop is to illuminate what the “post-crisis post-Lisbon” period comprises in terms of economic and then social policy development. A brief retrospective analysis of European governance transformation, since 1999, points out the spillover from monetary and financial...

This Colloquium is in conjunction with our partner event, the International Conference on Business and Management Education. ICBM 2011 is intended as a forum for academics and practitioners to meet and discuss the diverse realities of business and management around the world. We thus invite...

The purpose of this Ph.d.-course is to shed light on the concept and measurements of welfare. The course focuses on the following questions: Has the transition from the industrial to the post-industrial society changed our ideas and conceptions about welfare? What is the relationship between...

The objective of this interdisciplinary workshop is to bring experts from different social sciences and policy backgrounds to discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of this second approach to poverty persistence.