The ongoing sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone, with special emphasis for the peripheral countries, threatens the very existence of the European common currency. It is then urgent to reflect on what went wrong in the conception and operation of the euro zone itself and point out ways out of...

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...

Theme of the conference: Social Relations in turbulent times Economic and social crisis in these turbulent times challenges both our sociological skills and our imagination. Since its beginnings as a scientific discipline, sociology has sought answers to the social questions that arise in...

Papers in all areas of Macroeconomics are welcome. There will also be a special session on the Chinese economy.

The organizers welcome submissions on the general theme of Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes. Relevant aspects of globalization include trade in goods and services, foreign direct investment and the operation of multinational enterprises, current account imbalances, real exchange rate...

The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labour economics, public economics, demography, and health economics. Examples of research topics are: human capital investment, gender...

CEF.UP (U. Porto) and NIPE (U. Minho) are jointly organizing a Workshop on recent research developments based on LEED (linked employer-employee data). We aim to promote the interaction of researchers within this community by creating a forum for the discussion of applied and theoretical...

The goal of CTRG is to establish a world-wide research platform on international trade and FDI concerned with China.

Tracks · Financial crises and its impact on SMEs · Competitivenes of SMEs · Women and gender issues · Micro-Financing issues · Entrepreneurship · Electronic commerce, Technology transfer · Human resource management · Government policy · The role of SMEs in economic development and...

Topics: - Is there a bubble in China's property market? - Characteristics of inflation processes in China - Rebalancing of the Chinese economy toward domestic demand - Capital flows and domestic monetary and financial conditions - Financial system soundness and financial market development -...