The idea of the conference is to bring together economists who have recently contributed new research on the interlinkages between current account imbalances and financial factors.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to evaluation of European and international experience with policy approaches to: 1) labor market policy and reform 2) youth unemployment 3) inequality and poverty 4) informality 5) gender and family issues 6) education. Both single country and...

Programme: - Keynote Speech: Lower Social Mobility: The Long-run Cost of Higher Inequality; Maurizio Franzini, University of Rome "La Sapienza" - Crisis, Response and Distributional Impact: The Case of Ireland; Tim Callan, ESRI - Inequality in Germany; Gerhard Bosch, University of...

Topics: - Determinants and causes of poverty and its changes - Consequences and impacts of poverty on human capital formation, growth, consumption and so on - Assessment of poverty strategies and policies - The role of government, NGOs and other institutions in poverty reduction - Rural-urban...

The subject of the conference is "Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy." The Great Recession has brought high levels of long-term unemployment and heightened rates of poverty to the United States. In addition, there has been a long-term trend of increasing inequality, characterized by stagnant...

Conference Program: Session I - Transatlantic Macro-Financial Linkages: The Ties that Bind Session II - Macroeconomic Developments and Policy Challenges in the United States and Europe Session III - Transatlantic Dimensions of Financial Reform

For the ASE sessions at the 2013 ASSA meetings we welcome proposals for papers on all aspects of the evolving social nature of exchange. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Going local: Farmers' and other local markets re-personalize exchange - Community investment as a way to...

Chair: Brigitte Preissl, Intereconomics and ZBW Speakers: - Introductory remarks by Felix Roth, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Intereconomics - Torben M. Andersen, University of Aarhus - Anton Hemerijck, VU University Amsterdam - Thomas Leoni, Austrian Institute for Economic...

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 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...