The SOCIETAS INSTITUTE is an institute that will research, develop and promote new economic models based on socialist thought. Conference Theme: "Socialism Today". We are organizing an international conference, formally inaugurating the institute, focusing on two topics: 1) Aspects of socialism...

The workshop will focus on the realities of Asian societies in terms of ongoing changes in labour market transitions and, more generally, over the life course. It is open to all and has as its overall objective to exchange knowledge and build capacity on policy design for managing transitions in...

How important is a relationship with a bank to a firm’s performance and survival? If firms can easily switch among different sources of credit supply, then the loss of any one source may have little implication for the firms that have borrowed from that source. However, to the extent that...

We encourage submissions on any aspect of the pandemic including, for example, measuring its effects and the social and economic disruptions that it has and will create: discrimination and a possible sharpening of inequities, and the differential vulnerability or resilience of specific groups...

We invite papers that address the changing nature of the Nordic welfare states and other European countries in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic (as an external shock) or in response to other structural and institutional changes. Both quantitative and qualitative investigations and studies...

Gemäß dem neuen Motto „Grenzen überwinden – hybrid lernen und ausbilden“, bieten wir eine große Auswahl an Vorträgen, Workshops, Diskussionsrunden, Exkursionen (real und virtuell) und die Möglichkeit zum Austausch – egal ob im virtuellen Raum, oder vor Ort in Stuttgart.

The aim of the workshop is to examine recent patterns of social mobility, as well as their causes and consequences. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers on these issues. Topics of interest include (but not exclusively): - social mobility and income and wealth inequality, - taxation...

The prospects for economic reactivation both at the world level and in the Ibero-American continent as a whole depend, in the first instance, on the success of the dissemination of scientific advances to immunize the population. Following that, prospects depend on the implementation of economic...

Financial literacy has become a key competence. Individuals face large challenges when it comes to making financial decisions. Long-term trends like demographic change and digitalisation have farreaching implications for old-age provision, savings behaviour, interest rates, and financing...

Topics: - Unemployment, labor supply and labor demand; - Inequality, poverty and discrimination; - Evaluation of labor market institutions and policies; - Wages and productivity; - Occupations; - Education, qualification and job tasks; - Gender and family; - Migration and international labor...