Wir wollen uns auf dem Herbstforum mit den Schlüsselthemen Arbeitsmarkt, Sozialpolitik und der Rolle der Gewerkschaften auseinandersetzen, um einerseits die Gefahren, die sich auf nationaler wie europäischer Ebene zeigen, deutlich zu benennen, aber andererseits gezielt die neuen und...

Das Ziel des Workshops besteht darin, NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen eine Plattform zu bieten, ihre Forschungsprojekte vorzustellen und zu diskutieren. Dadurch sollen interinstituti-onelle Netzwerke gefördert und den TeilnehmerInnen ein Austausch ermöglicht und gegen-seitiges Feedback über...

We invite submissions of papers from PhD students who focus on the following: the drivers and obstacles to privatisation and marketisation in different national contexts and in different policy fields, including, inter alia, social services and social insurance; the effects these processes have on...

The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for the leading experts in economics and political science to meet and to exchange ideas and research results about redistribution.

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Erich Gundlach (Claussen-Simon-Professor of Economics University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth...

Program: - Cash Transfers and Social Assistance - Climate Change, Poverty and Migration - Education, Informality and Inequality - Education and Discrimination - Education and Labor Markets - Labor Market Programs and Employment - Health, Participation and Remittances - Welfare and Social Effects...

Topics: - Cross-national comparison of welfare state regimes - Comparing social policymaking with QCA or Fuzzy-set Methods - Multi-level analysis of value survey data on welfare state attitudes - Comparing national panel data on social inequality

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together CESifo members to present and dis-cuss their ongoing research, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation between them. All CESifo Research Network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic within the domains of...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Marcel Fafchamps (University of Oxford) The first part of the course discusses contract enforcement mechanisms, with a particular focus on trust, relational contracting, and reputation...

The conference invites papers around the issues which may involve questions around the workings and structure of the International Labour Organisation, the world of work in the current context of global recession, issues surrounding social unrest as linked to rising unemployment, and the future...