This year's focus: Digitalization drives Mobility. The term mobility has different meanings in the following science disciplines. In economics, mobility is the ability of an individual or a group to improve their economic status in relation to income and wealth within their lifetime or between...

Das WSI-Herbstforum 2021 s erörtert, ob und wie Solidarität die Gestaltung der Post-Corona-Gesellschaft prägt: Ist die Gesellschaft durch Corona gleicher oder ungleicher geworden? Welche Faktoren haben die Entwicklungen beeinflusst? Mit welchen sozialstaatlichen Instrumenten soll Arbeit...

Topics: Labor market inequality; Family relations; Gender inequality; Cognitive and noncognitive skills; Educational inequality; Work-life interferences; Well-being; Civic and democratic participation. Research on the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is particularly welcome.

Zahlreiche Nutzungsansprüche auf Agrarflächen – von landwirtschaftlicher Produktion über Artenschutz und Erholung – führen zu Zielkonflikten und betreffen eine Vielzahl von Interessengruppen. Daraus resultieren sowohl agrarpolitische als auch ökologische und soziale Herausforderungen,...

Welcoming are contributions on the pandemic and on the prospects for employment recovery, but not only. In IREC traditions, papers with a comparative or international dimension are prioritised: research presented should be, if not comparative, at least comparable. The main topical clusters...

The Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution (PolEcCon) Summer School 2021 is aimed at young researchers in the early stage of their careers as PhD students and Postdocs, notably in the fields of Economics and Political Science. The School provides research-oriented lectures by senior...

Conference theme: "Lessons from Covid-19. A stronger EU: Staying together in a new policy space" Topics: - Inequality and pandemic; - Global Supply Chains, pandemic and trade - Monetary and fiscal policies in the post Covid-19; - The unequal impact of Covid on workers. Skills, automation and...

Topics: - Opportunities for Biological Innovation and Bioeconomy Transformation; - Polices to Build a Sustainable and Resilient Bioeconomy; - Impacts of Technology Innovations; - The Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Economics and Policies of Goods, Supply Chains and Trade; - Risk Assessment and Regulation; -...

Die sozialwissenschaftliche Promotionswerkstatt Rhein-Ruhr richtet sich an Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden aus sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen sowie angrenzenden Fächern, die an einer Dissertation mit Bezug zu mindestens einem der folgenden Themenfelder arbeiten: Arbeit, Arbeitsmarkt,...

This two-day workshop provides an opportunity for presentations and discussions about research on the design and impact of public policy on economic and social phenomena in an informal and highly interactive environment. This year we especially encourage submission of papers that examine how...