List of Themes: - Family, Marriage and work - Labour Market Discrimination - Retirement - Program and Policy evaluation - Labour supply - Labour demand - Occupational choice and Intergenerational Mobility - Education, Training and Human Capital - Health - Job and Life Satisfaction - Wage...

Topics : - Intra-industry versus inter-industry trade: effects on wages, employment, inequality and migration. - Offshoring, outsourcing and FDI: effects on home and host labour markets - Labour migration, trade flows, and FDI : substitutability versus complementarity - Trade, specialization...

The Italian Association for Population Studies (SIS-AISP), announces a call for abstracts for the Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione 2013 (Population Days 2013). Each contribution to the conference should be submitted in one of the following strands: - Fertility - Migrations - Health and...

The conference is thus meant to stimulate further research and to create an opportunity for discussions of topics such as the following: - objectives of portability and optimal design of portability rules, - conceptual issues arising in different sub-fields, old-age provision and health care in...

The problem of flexibility, in its definition, measures and impact on the performance of the labour market and of the economy as a whole is becoming today of paramount importance both in the theoretical and the political debate. In this field, not only theories, but also empirical evidences...

The aim of the Conference is to present and discuss recent research on cultural traits, beliefs and social norms and how they affect the functioning of institutions and legal systems. Topics: • Economics and Econometrics of Interactions • Cultural diversity and discrimination • Political...

European Governments made substantial efforts to reform labor market institutions when walking away from the Eurosclerosis of the 1980s. To achieve political viability, the reforms mostly entailed changing the rules only for new hires and introducing a wide array of new flexible, fixed-term,...

In an international and comparative perspective, access to the labour market on the part of young people is a complex issue with certain contradictory aspects reflecting the level of development of labour law and industrial relations in the respective countries. In the most advanced economies...

The Conference will be the occasion to present the results of a research project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN 2007). The main themes of the Conference include: 1) Innovation in business services at the firm level and its impact on firms' performance 2)...

We look for contributions on this topic by economists, political scientists and sociologists. We are particularly keen on seeing submissions in the following areas of research: • The historical perspective to migration issues • Circular and return migration • Migration and technology...