This conference aims to cover several important dimensions of workforce heterogeneity (nationality, cultural background, skill and occupational dimensions, gender, and age structure), high-lighted from various perspectives and disciplines. The focus will be on the impact of diversity on...

Christopher Wildeman will show how descriptive methods - especially life tables - and several types of tests for individual-level effects can help us understand consequences of social inequality. These descriptive methods are simple yet underutilized. To illustrate this method, he constructs a...

In the 2012 Conference, we plan to address the following topics: - The Euro-Crisis - Restructuring the State: Welfare and Austerity, Parliaments and Executive Decision-making - Economic Democracy - Inequality and Democracy - Crisis Management, Elite Disorientation - International Relations: New...

The socioeconomic gradient in health has been described by some as one of the most intriguing questions for the social sciences. While its universal existence is well known, less is known about the relative roles played by various potential mechanisms in causing it. During this workshop we bring...

The conference will include invited lectures, topic-related invited sessions, parallel sessions and poster sessions. EALE and IZA invite all labor economists to submit papers for presentation at the EALE Conference in Bonn.

The debate about an unconditional basic income has attracted public attention in a number of countries in recent years. Financial, debt, and ecological crises are causing growing numbers of people to look for political alternatives to the existing economy and the way income is distributed within...

Suggestions for Stream Themes: 1. European Union and social policy 2. Comparative methodology 3. Pensions 4. Health care 5. Labour market policy 6. Family policy 7. Social services 8. Poverty and social assistance 9. Inequalities and social policy 10. Political economy of welfare 11. Migration...

Papers are sought in all fields of interest to the IARIW, i.e. all papers that advance knowledge about income and wealth, from both a macro and micro perspective.

This doctoral workshop invites papers dealing theoretically, conceptually and empirically with such pressures and with the ever shifting boundary between the public and the private in contemporary European societies. Papers might explore questions such as: - Business and welfare - State...

The conference provides researchers who use the SOEP with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other researchers familiar with SOEP data. Researchers for all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, geography, political sciences, public health, psychology and sociology) who use...