Diverging demographic developments in Europe and in developing countries create a potential for huge mutual gains from migration. At the same time, the immigration of low-skilled workers and emigration of high-skilled workers pose a challenge to the European social model. How can receiving...

The MESD’12 raises the key question of the role multinational enterprises play, in the dynamic sustainable business environment. Because of the size and scope of their transborder activities, multinationals are global environmental actors and stewards. Their corporate strategies can accelerate...

The central questions of the conference therefore are: 1. In what ways do social heterogeneities and social inequalities contribute to social vulnerability to environmental and climate change and the likelihood that some people or groups are more prone to migrate than others? 2. What are the...

The conference will present a broad selection of papers primarily focussed on the development of business-to-business relationshops and networks in Asia. On this occasion, the theme is Developing Networks in International Marketing and Purchasing.

Die nationalstaatlich verfassten Gesellschaften befinden sich spätestens seit den 1970er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts in einem tief greifenden Transformationsprozess, den viele Autoren mit den Begriffen Globalisierung und Transnationalisierung beschrieben haben. Die Veränderungen...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Gene Grossman (Princeton University) Topics: - Offshoring, Outsourcing, and the Organization of Production - The Political Economy of Trade Policy - Non-Homothetic Demand and International...

Im Zuge des Wiederaufbaus nach 1945, des rasch wachsenden Welthandels und der Entstehung neuer internationaler Institutionen (Bretton Woods/IWF/Weltbank, GATT), der Herausbildung einer multipolaren Weltwirtschaft und zugleich regionaler Integrationsprozesse (EWG, RGW, USA, Asien/pazifischer...

Konferenz im Rahmen der Oder-Partnerschaft in Wissenschaft und Forschung. Die geplante Konferenz soll eine interdisziplinäre Bilanz der Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit nach über einem Jahr ziehen. Die Öffnung des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes für die Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer aus Polen hat...

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Circular and return migration - The role of social networks and Diaspora externalities - Remittances, migration and the pattern of trade/FDI - Brain drain - Migration and institutional change - Immigrant integration - Immigration policies

The conference will include invited lectures, topic-related invited sessions, parallel sessions and poster sessions. EALE and IZA invite all labor economists to submit papers for presentation at the EALE Conference in Bonn.