The 35th General Conference is primarily organized around the following theme sessions: - Globalization and Inclusive Growth - Skills, Employment and Productivity – Measurement Analysis. - Measuring Capital and Wealth - Human Capital and Innovation - Is Productivity Growth Slowing Down? - The...

Topics: Emergence of post-consumerist lifestyles; Impact of the decline in wage labor on consumption practices; Role of behavioral economics and related strategies on consumption routines; Social practices research related to sustainable consumption; Sustainability and the transformation of...

On Wednesday, May 30, 1945, Mr John Dedman, Minister for Post-war Reconstruction and Minister in charge of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in the Curtin Labor Government, stood up to present the White Paper on Full Employment to the House of Representatives of the Australian...

This workshop will focus on issues of both measurement and explanation, building on a number of themes where research is currently active, including (but not limited to): - Extending historical national accounts further back in time for the Nordic countries - Providing historical national...

Issues explored by the two-day conference will include budget sustainability, education, infrastructure, trade with Asia, aged care, federalism, the labour market and employment, climate change and energy, social disadvantage and exclusion and the end of the aged of entitlement.

Major Theme: The Unemployment Aftermath of the Crisis While papers in any area of labour market analysis will be of interest, papers will be particularly welcome in the following research and policy areas: - Reflections on the global financial crisis? Reform agendas etc. - Any research on...

Program: Session A: European Union Perspectives Session B: Receiving Countries' Perspectives I Session C: Receiving Countries' Perspectives II Session D: Sending Countries' Perspectives I Session F: Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged E(M)U

Major Theme: The Way Forward - Austerity or Stimulus The Conference will seek to explore the apparent contradictions of the policy stances that are now emerging amidst the global unemployment crisis. More specific themes: - Reflections on the global financial crisis? Reform agendas etc. - Any...

Theme and Topics: Recent work on labor markets has stressed the importance of trading frictions in accounting for the outcomes that we observe in these markets. The focus of this conference, hosted by CAP, is to further our understanding of how frictions in both labor markets and related markets...

The theme for this year's conference is The Aftermath of the Crisis and will thus focus on the challenges facing policy makers in the recovery phase. Participation will enable you to share ideas with some of the best researchers in this field about how we can quickly reduce the labour market...