The aim of this conference will be to establish the role and position of Gender Relations in European Labour Markets and Welfare States and consider what achievements have been made and what challenges remain. This should enable discussions about future developments, Europe-wide,...

Distinguished international scholars lecture in thematic sessions on: Religion & the Welfare State, Immigration & the Welfare State, The Service Sector in the Welfare State, as well as Agency & Welfare State Development.

Proposals are invited for papers on any aspect of social policy. We particularly encourage proposals reflecting high quality research or which explore questions of social policy in practice or the teaching of social policy.

Proposed themes include: - The risks inherent in DC schemes. - Methods to share risk, including inter- and intra-generational risk-sharing and other ways to reduce the potential dispersion of retirement outcomes for members - Theory and evidence of risk sharing in which there is no scheme...