The policy summit will focus on housing, inequality, neighborhoods, and labor market issues, with special consideration given to research related to the foreclosure crisis. Topics of particular interest include labor mobility and housing lock-in, wealth and income inequality, housing and human...

In den 1980er Jahren behaupteten Sozialwissenschaftler, der Arbeitsgesellschaft gehe die Arbeit aus. Tatsächlich haben sich Erwerbs- wie Reproduktionsarbeit während der zurückliegenden Jahrzehnte dramatisch verändert. Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsverhältnisse sind auch in den entwickelten...

The purpose of this meeting is to provide an opportunity for the best labor scholars in the Nordic countries to get together and to discuss their work. The meeting will contain both contributed and invited papers.

Foodnews Tomato Forum continues to deliver new opportunities for growth around the world in its 5th biennial event. This year you will access all areas of tomato processing with grouped sessions dedicated to the major market issues and topics: strategic outlook, global market consumption levels,...

ACSEE 2011 will be held alongside ACSS 2011, or the Asian Conference on the Social Sciences. The conference theme is "Facing the Future" and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this question from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration...

Program: - Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa - The School Reentry Decision of Poor Girls. Structural Estimation and Policy Analysis Using PROGRESA Database - Do Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Improve Work and Earnings among its Youth Beneficiaries? Evidence after a...

In addition to the regular sessions in all fields of labor economics, special sessions on Social Protection and Labor Markets will be featured. The previous global recession has demonstrated the importance of social protection and shown that economic growth alone is insufficient to deal with...

Program: - Session I: Wages and Related Issues - Session II: Time and Timing - Session III: Macro Issues - Session IV: Biological and Non-Cognitive Issues - Session V: Migration - Session VI: Peer Effects - Session VII: Sickness and Absenteeism - Session VIII: Education and Human Capital

The objective of the IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics is to bring together a large number of Ph.D. students and senior researchers to study new areas in labor economics.

Conference Themes: - Active citizenship - Care: ideas, practices and policies - Flexibility, security and restructuring the life course - Climate change, communities and sustainable work - Work, family and life integration - Globalization, insecurity and localities - Diversity of families -...