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 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...

This conference aims to cover several important dimensions of workforce heterogeneity (nationality, cultural background, skill and occupational dimensions, gender, and age structure), high-lighted from various perspectives and disciplines. The focus will be on the impact of diversity on...

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...

Christopher Wildeman will show how descriptive methods - especially life tables - and several types of tests for individual-level effects can help us understand consequences of social inequality. These descriptive methods are simple yet underutilized. To illustrate this method, he constructs a...

The workshop invites both conceptual and empirical papers in the areas of International Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management. We are particularly interested in papers that may help us to enhance the dialogue between and integration of these areas.

In the 2012 Conference, we plan to address the following topics: - The Euro-Crisis - Restructuring the State: Welfare and Austerity, Parliaments and Executive Decision-making - Economic Democracy - Inequality and Democracy - Crisis Management, Elite Disorientation - International Relations: New...

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...