An in-person conference, with hybrid access. The current pandemic has brought attention to the need for international cooperation to help mitigate the impact of the pandemic and produce an inclusive recovery. The far-reaching consequences of COVID-19 on local, national, and global economies have...

Family structures in all industrial and post-industrial societies are changing rapidly, as is the economic security that is granted or can be granted within families. Social security systems are challenged to react to these changes, for they shape current developments and also set the course for...

The conference theme is: Inequality over the life course. We also welcome submissions on all relevant areas of sociological research, notably the labour market, education, gender, the family, migration and ethnicity, urban and spatial inequalities, political sociology, health and well-being,...

Universal Child Grants (UCG) are increasingly discussed as a policy instrument to achieve universal social protection and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The conference organisers invite research paper proposals based on evidence from the implementation of cash transfers...

Alp-Pop brings together scholars interested in population issues across several disciplines, including demography, economics, epidemiology, political science, sociology and psychology. We welcome submissions on all population issues (e.g. population and health, migration, families and the...

Die Schweiz beschäftigt sich intensiv mit ihrer Migrationspolitik, wobei heftig über eine allfällige Eingrenzung der Zuwanderung diskutiert wird. Immer wieder werden die Einwandernden für hiesige strukturelle Probleme wie mangelnde Wohnungen, Defizite bei den Sozialversicherungen oder...

The 2012 WDA Forum will address the theme: 2022 – 10 years to shape the demographic shift! The 2012 WDA Forum will take place in a year that is particularly focused on issues related to demography and ageing. In 2012, the United Nations will assess the Madrid International Action Plan on...

We are pleased to invite papers for submission for the 7th European Workshop on ‘Labour Markets and Demographic Change’ in connection with the 8th World Demographic & Ageing Forum, 28-29 August 2012, at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The workshop focuses on economic analysis...

The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labour economics, public economics, demography, and health economics. Examples of research topics are: human capital investment, gender...