Vorzeitig defekte bzw. nicht mehr voll funktionsfähige Produkte sind ein Ärgernis für Verbraucher. Ausgewiesene Experten aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Verbänden werden das vielschichtige Problem der Obsoleszenz aus dem Blickwinkel unterschiedlicher Disziplinen beleuchten. Ziel des...

UK Data Service Census Support is holding a one-day conference to provide users and data creators with an opportunity to meet and discuss developments in census research. The day will be composed of presentations from census agencies on developments in data and from users who have used the data...

We welcome empirical papers about any aspect of inequality in economic outcomes (household income, consumption, wealth, earnings, employment) in developed societies, and papers that assess how welfare states are responding, or might respond.

The theme for ICAR 2014 is Anti consumption and consumer wellbeing. In the last two decades of the new millennia, we have seen consumer wellbeing affected in two vastly opposing ways. On the one hand, we see an ever increasing conglomeration of corporations, leading to larger, more ubiquitous,...

Researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, geography, political science, public health, psychology and sociology) who use the SOEP or the SOEP part of the Cross-National Equivalent Files (CNEF) are invited to submit an abstract. We encourage in particular submissions of papers...

Die Veranstaltung richtet sich neben den Mitgliedern der Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) auch an alle anderen Studierenden, Doktoranden und Nachwuchswissenschaftler in den Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme sind solide Kenntnisse in...

This conference aims to identify the linkages between social stratification and mobility with social policy and welfare states. It looks for questions and answers that lie at the intersection of stratification and policy. For example: Does social policy enable or inhibit social mobility? Do...

The conference theme of 2014 is: “Neuroscience of Cognition, Communication, Economic Decision Making, and Marketing: Innovation through Collaboration” Manuscripts should combine concepts from neuroscience and/or psychology with problems in economics, business, management, marketing, or...

The symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students and young postdoctoral researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, psychology, sociology, public health, geography) to present empirical research in progress - carried out with panel data (especially SOEP data). Each...

David Craig spent most of his career selling for some of the world’s best and worst management consultancies. After writing two whistleblowing books, Rip-Off and Plundering the Public Sector, about how consultants take millions from businesses and government departments while delivering little...