UN/CEFACT supports activities dedicated to improving the ability of business, trade and administrative organizations, from developed, developing and transition economies, to exchange products and relevant services effectively. Its principal focus is on facilitating national and international...

The workshop is intended to bring together economists working on International Trade modeling and Globalization and Economic Development analysis. Of particular interest are works developing general equilibrium models of a static and/or dynamic nature with perfectly and/or imperfectly...

The European Forum for New Ideas is an international conference of business communities, also attended by representatives of the cultural sector, scholars and politicians. Plenary sessions: - How to heal the Old Continent? Ideas and values for overcoming the crisis - Economic architecture for a...

Stream Themes: 1. Welfare State in 'New Eastern Europe'. 2. Welfare state in Central and Eastern Europe in the post-crisis period. 3. Designing comparative social policy analysis. 4. 'New' perspectives on pensions and retirement. 5. The role of public pension systems for the long-term...

This workshop will investigate the determinants and evolution of gender gaps, by focusing on two promising prospects: the institutional design, which –if appropriately set- can allow different outcomes to reflect only differences in abilities rather than in gender, as shown for instance in...

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...