Thema: "Hart aber fair?" Ungleichheit und Wohlfahrtsstaat. Themenfelder: - Wirkungsweisen und Folgen sozialpolitischer Programme, - Perzeptionen und Präferenzen, - Responsivität und Wohlfahrtsdemokratie, - Neue Herausforderungen. Zur Analyse dieser Ebenen tragen neben der Soziologie auch die...

Der Forschungsschwerpunkt Interdisciplinary Public Policy (IPP) veranstaltet gemeinsam mit dem Mercator Science-Policy Fellowship Programm ein Symposium, dessen Ziel es ist, das Thema „Ungleichheit“ aus verschiedenen Perspektiven zu beleuchten. Zudem ist das Symposium eine Plattform für den...

The focus of the school is on how changes in the occupational structure, the labour market and employment relationships affect the life chances of different socio-economic groups such as youth, women, the working class or migrants. A limited number of doctoral students and young researchers will...

We welcome submissions on all population issues (e.g. population and health, migration, families and the welfare state; population and economic development/institutions, well-being, etc.). We particularly encourage submissions that take a life course perspective and/or address social...

URPE Sessions: - Macroeconomic Studies of Labor Market, - Stabilizing an Unstable International Monetary System- Current and Historical Perspectives, - Empirical and Theoretical Developments in Marxian Political Economy, - Topics in economic development: explorations and evidence from...

WID.world was initially created as the The World Top Incomes Database in January 2011. Thanks to the contribution of over a hundred researchers, the project expanded to include series on income and wealth inequality for more than thirty countries, spanning over most of the 20th and early 21st...

Papers are invited in the following theme areas: - National Accounts; - Productivity; - Poverty and Inequality; - Human Capital and Education; - Regional Integration and Global Value Chains; - Well-being, including Health, Food Security and Hunger; - Labour market, Skills and Jobs; - Structural...

Zugangschancen, wohnortnahe Versorgung und schließlich auch Gesundheit selbst, sind höchst ungleich verteilte Güter. Das zeigt sich beispielsweise im Unterschied der Lebenserwartung. Denn längst ist wissenschaftlich erwiesen: Wer arm oder wenig gebildet ist, wird öfter krank und stirbt...

The aim of the conference is to bring the discussion on recent trends in inequalities in the spotlight of the debate among political circles and policy makers. Topics will provide wider scope to the conference, ranging from the concept of inequality to the potential policies. Specific attention...

The aim of the conference is to present preliminary findings from the research unit “Horizontal Europeanization” to colleagues working on the sociology of Europe in Germany and abroad, and to discuss our empirical results with them. The conference will have the character of a workshop. It...