Wir wollen uns auf dem Herbstforum mit den Schlüsselthemen Arbeitsmarkt, Sozialpolitik und der Rolle der Gewerkschaften auseinandersetzen, um einerseits die Gefahren, die sich auf nationaler wie europäischer Ebene zeigen, deutlich zu benennen, aber andererseits gezielt die neuen und...

The conference aims at developing empirical quantitative comparative (cross-country and cross-regional) studies in social science. Conference topics: • Social Well-Being and Its Measurement • Social Solidarity and Welfare States • Values, Trust and Happiness • Nationalism, Ethnicity and...

Das Ziel des Workshops besteht darin, NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen eine Plattform zu bieten, ihre Forschungsprojekte vorzustellen und zu diskutieren. Dadurch sollen interinstituti-onelle Netzwerke gefördert und den TeilnehmerInnen ein Austausch ermöglicht und gegen-seitiges Feedback über...

This unique global event is the most important in the ISSA's triennial calendar, and is expected to involve more than one thousand directors and senior managers of social security institutions, ministers and policy-makers, representatives of international organizations and social policy experts...

The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for the leading experts in economics and political science to meet and to exchange ideas and research results about redistribution.

The conference will address cross-sectoral issues and aspects related to sustainable management of sectors like agriculture, industry, energy and transport; as well as the adoption of sustainable life styles reducing individual ecological footprints, equity concerns, and strategies for poverty...

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 list for parallel sessions: - Global and local analyses of food security - Enabling policies for local and global food security - Sustainable intensification of food production systems - Novel ways of feeding 9 billion - Learning from the past to understand the future - Land sparing, land...

The following issues will be addressed: - Agricultural practices that increase the availability of food for poor people, e.g. production for domestic use; land reform, reduction of post-harvest losses; strengthening peri-urban agriculture; sustainable productivity increase, etc. - Policies for...