This Forum will provide a key platform for the sharing of information and discussion of the most important regional social security trends and priority issues in the Asia-Pacific region. A unique networking opportunity, the Forum will bring together social security administrators, policy-makers...

The objective of the conference is to gather the most recent researches upon the changes in inequality within globalized economies, with a special attention devoted to the links between inequalities, labour markets, skills and education. An additional goal is to create and facilitate links...

Social economics, with its focus on social values, social interactions, and ethics, is particularly well suited to provide insightful analyses on the present state of economics as a discipline and on the state of the world economy. The international financial crisis, the European sovereign debt...

This conference brings together innovation management professionals from research, industry, policy and consulting. Submissions from academic, research, consulting, industry, intermediary and policy organisations are encouraged and should focus on the following general themes or Conference Focus...

The Association for Social Economics announces an exciting Summer School workshop for graduate students and recent Ph.D.s. to be held in conjunction with the World Congress of Social Economics in Glasgow, Scotland. The Summer School brings together a small group of fellows to discuss the central...

The Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet are open to all fields of public economics, both applied and theoretical. Are especially (but not exclusively) requested papers in the following categories of topics: - Taxation (including transfers, social security, etc.) - Local Public Economics and...

The organizers welcome proposals for exciting papers that deal with welfare and the welfare state in a broad historical and contemporary perspective from disciplines such as sociology, history, social policy, political science, political philosophy etc. Papers can be both theoretical and...

Topics: - Inequality measurements - Economic growth, inequalities and poverty - Polarization, fragmentation, discrimination and horizontal inequalities - Economic and social mobility - Constitution of the middle classes - Poverty, vulnerability and vertical inequalities - Inequalities of...

Ziel der Tagung ist, neben dem Aspekt knapper öff entlicher Budgets die Bedeutung der öff entlichen Infrastruktur als Grundlage für Wohnen, Mobilität, Bildung, Arbeiten und Wirtschaften zu unterstreichen und genau auf den Anpassungbedarf in der öff entlichen...

The conference seeks to explore ways in which an explicit recognition of class helps to understand the social world in which we live, and ways in which analysis of society can deepen our understanding of class as a social relationship. Presentations should take as their point of reference the...