Topics: - Changes in the demand for long-term care; - Healthcare expenditures associated with long-term care; - Funding systems (including international comparisons); - The consequences of informal care on caregivers (e.g., health and employment); - Policies to cope with the increasing demand for...

Key Topics: Gender and social inclusion; Gender and ICT; Gender and education; Gender and democracy; Gender equality; Gender in the workplace; Women’s empowerment in science and in other areas; Feminist studies; Men and masculinities; Gender and small and medium sized enterprises; Gender and...

Mobility is a key problem in Economic and Social History. Regardless of the period under analysis, people circulate, carrying with them commodities, capital, ideas, languages, traditions. They circulate to survive, to trade, to explore, to conquer, to migrate, and also for leisure. These...

The IWSEA provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of topics related with population ageing, one of the most important social transformations of our times. Research on ageing transcends disciplinary boundaries and this is reflected in the multiple dimensions covered in the workshop....

Gender as an analytical tool has been increasingly used by historians in the last few decades in a wide range of domains. The aspects of social and economic history where the gender dimension is relevant are numerous: assessment of social functions, different patterns of insertion in the labour...

European countries have transformed. Fiscal consolidation, the 2008 financial collapse, demographic changes, the refugee crisis, social movements, unemployment, and new political forces are all a threat to social dialogue, solidarity and the European project. Social policy has played a key role...

We are looking for contributions on the economics of migration in the development context. Topics of interest include but are not limited to brain drain vs. brain gain; the effects of financial and immaterial remittances such as political attitudes and social norms; the determinants of migration...

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.

In this workshop we want to consider both the economic dimension and the social dynamics of ageing societies. We welcome submission of theoretical, empirical and policy papers. The suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the relation between population ageing and the...

We invite both theoretical and empirical papers that predominantly, though not exclusively, reflect some of the following issues: - Child Obesity and other Food and Beverages related diseases and what is the role of marketers on the well being of children. - Digital Marketing targeted at kids...