European welfare states are at the center of various crises. In contrast to earlier decades, current crises are often not crises of the welfare state, but rather exogenous developments that affect social policy making and/or need to be addressed by social policy measures. These developments...

The Research in International Economics and Finance (RIEF) network was created in 2004 in order to strengthen scientific cooperation and contacts between European research centers working on international economics. The RIEF network organizes a yearly doctoral meeting which offers the...

European microdata released by Eurostat are an important basis for comparative social research. More and more researchers use these data for a wide range of economic and social analyses. For many years, researchers have presented results of their work at the bi-annual conferences organised by...

Die Tagung wird 2023 unter dem Motto„Qualität von Gesundheitsleistungen in einer heterogenen Gesellschaft“ stehen. Das Gesundheitswesen steht in einer besonderen Wechselbeziehung mit gesell- schaftlichen Dynamiken. Die Bedeutung einer vielfältigen Gesellschaft für die Qualität von...

Topics: - Crosscutting Theory and Methods ; - Distribution and Equity ; - Education, Training, Labor Force ; - Energy, Natural Resources, Environment, Water ; - Finance, Financial Markets, International Trade ; - Food, Nutrition, Agriculture ; - Health Care System, Health Insurance, Medical...

The aim of the conference is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America. This conference will also launch the new CEPR POE, the New CEPR Research Programme in Political Economy. A limited number of papers will be...

CESifo is inviting the submission of papers (or extended abstracts) for the annual conference of the CESifo Area on Energy and Climate Economics. The scope of relevant topics is broad, ranging from climate mitigation and adaptation to the study of energy and resource markets as well as...

The purpose of the Atlanta Workshop on Public Policy and Child Well-being (PPCW) is to provide a platform for researchers who seek to better understand the factors affecting child well-being, broadly defined. The workshop will include presentations of policy-relevant empirical research—from...

The Covid-19 pandemic has touched everyone in some way, but many of its impacts have been disproportionately felt by women: Job losses and care burdens, for example, have fallen on women relatively more than men. Two years after the pandemic began, and as countries increasingly move toward...

Die sozialwissenschaftliche Promotionswerkstatt Rhein-Ruhr richtet sich an Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden aus sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen sowie angrenzenden Fächern, die an einer Dissertation mit Bezug zu mindestens einem der folgenden Themenfelder arbeiten: Arbeit, Arbeitsmarkt,...