Conference Programme: Plenary A: Growth for jobs or jobs for growth? Plenary B: Is there a trade-off between competitiveness and quality jobs? Plenary C: Is the rise in inequality here to stay? Plenary D: The future of jobs – is unemployment inevitable? Plenary E: Conference closure – is...

Conference streams: 1. Diffusion of Ideas 2. Towards a European Social Policy? 3. Globalization and Social Policy 4. On the Interrelationship of Environmental, Social, and Economic Sustainability 5. Comparative Methodology- Reforms of Social Security Programs as Case 6. Welfare Funding 6a)...

Regional disparities in unemployment and wages are large, often persistent, and presumably not efficient. To what extent is it due to a range of frictions (search-matching frictions, lack of labor mobility,...), imperfect competition or discrimination? Is the functioning of the housing market...

This winter school seeks to address theoretical, empirical and methodological ideas, insights and challenges relating to research on work, care and welfare attitudes.