Topics: Governing Diversity & Inequality; Stability in Multi-Level Governance; Inequality, Diversity & Welfare; Managing Conflicts in Plural Societies; Culture and Inequality; Regional Inequalities & Public Policy; Education, Inequality and Social Policies; Diversity and Social Values; Digital...

Topics of the workshop: - The formation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in early childhood and adolescence; - Measurement of preferences and skills using survey instruments and experiments; - Malleability of preferences and cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and their rank order...

The objective of this special IARIW-HSE conference is to advance our understanding on issues related to national accounts, prices, productivity, income and wealth distribution, poverty, and, economic well-being in the countries of Eastern Europe and of the Commonwealth of Independent States...

This second IZA/Higher School of Economics workshop will bring together labor economists who are working on labor market adjustment in the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Central Asian former Soviet Republics and China. While the main focus of the workshop is on the specified topic,...

Topics: - Trust and Social Well-Being - Trust and Social Solidarity - Trust and Social Capital - Values, Trust and Economic Growth - Trust and Corruption

Special topics of the conference are: - Governance: models, problems, challenges; - Cultural evolution and modernization; - Inequality and Economic Growth; - Varieties of Capitalism.

The conference aims at developing empirical quantitative comparative (cross-country and cross-regional) studies in social science. Conference topics: • Social Well-Being and Its Measurement • Social Solidarity and Welfare States • Values, Trust and Happiness • Nationalism, Ethnicity and...

Program: Session A: Fertility in Russia Session B: Migrants and their Behavior in Central Asia and Russia Session C: Retirement and Consumption Session D: Invited Policy Lecture Session E: Informality and Self-Employment Session F: Minimum Wages in Russia Session G: Education and Labor Market...

The title of the 2011 conference – Innovation, Prosperity, Quality of Life – in many ways reflects the expectations that we currently place on scientific and technological progress. Innovation seems to be on everyone’s lips, but how can it be harnessed to offer greater prosperity and...

Issues for discussion at the Transport Infrastructure in Russia Forum 2010: - Overview of the sector: latest developments and governmental priorities. What lessons have been learned as a result of the last 12 months? - PPP – is it time to introduce more innovative solutions in the field of...