The theme of the conference fits into this debate by placing at its center the reflection on the priorities identified by the NGEU and the NRRP for the design of ‘sustainable’ EU member countries, which can generate added value also in their ability to address issues of inequality and social...

The twelfth ESPAnet Italy annual conference aims to shed light on the complex intertwining of politics and policy, scales, and opening and closures in welfare transformation, that may increase inequalities. La conferenza annuale di ESPAnet Italia intende accendere i riflettori sul complesso...

Topics: 1. Multi‐level finance and public budgeting; fiscal federalism. 2. Public choice, political economy; voting. 3. Theoretical and empirical analyses of taxation and income redistribution; welfare economics; inequality. 4. Asymmetric and private information; mechanism design; games and...

Possible questions to be addressed are: - The relationship between economic inequality and other inequalities in historical or comparative perspective; - The role of multilateral organizations in dealing with global and domestic inequality; - New assessments of inequality trends in specific...

Topics: Fertility; Families and Households; Health, Mortality and Epidemics; Intergenerational Relations and Ageing; Human Capital, Education and Labour Market; Methods, Models, and Innovative Data; Migration, Mobility, and Ethnicity; Development, Environment and History; Inequality and Demography.

Topics: - Financial sustainability and adequacy of social protection systems, – Advocating rights for “invisibles”, – Role, competences, and training of social workers in the face of current emergences, – Globalization and changing labour markets and labour rights, – Social...

Topics: - Public goods, externalities and pro-social behaviour, - Welfare economics without revealed preferences, - Taxation and behavioral economics, - Neo-utilitarianism and happiness research: measures and implications for public intervention, - Social preferences, moral behaviour and...

Conference theme: "Welfare Models and Models of Capitalism. The challenges for socio – economic development in Italy and Europe" Tema della conferenza: "Modelli di welfare e modelli di capitalismo. Le sfide per lo sviluppo socio-economico in Italia e in Europa" Le sessioni previste includono i...

Topics: 1. The measurement of inequality and poverty along different socio-economic dimensions. 2. The relationship between inequality, economic efficiency, individual welfare and social cohesion. 3. The role of globalization in shaping inequality and public policy. 4. The impact of fiscal...

The aim of the 2015 ESPAnet Italy’s eighth conference is to integrate the historical analysis of Italian social policies with the cross-sectional comparison of new welfare systems emerging both in Europe and throughout the world. The idea underlying the conference consists of historically...