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...

The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is currently collecting its 30th wave of data. We would like to celebrate this milestone with a colloquium on "Happiness Research", which has become one of the central fields of research with the SOEP data over the last ten years. An increasing number...

We aim at bringing together researchers from several disciplines, especially economics, sociology, geography, and anthropology, in this conference. We do not impose any specific definition of well-being but welcome papers using different concepts. All papers should have an empirical focus and...

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.

Activation has become a prominent paradigm with regard to both labour market and social policies in Europe. Not only has it permeated political oratory in a short period of time across a wide range of European countries, but it has also become a crucial reference point for the restructuring of...

Activation has become a prominent paradigm with regard to both labour market and social policies in Europe. Not only has it permeated political oratory in a short period of time across a wide range of European countries, but it has also become a crucial reference point for the restructuring of...

CONFERENCE THEMES: We are interested in high-quality papers that provide new insights into the relationship between growth, equity, and poverty reduction. Papers on the following issues are particularly welcome: - Scaling-up ODA to Africa - Empirical project evaluation - Performance-based aid...