The theme for the 2011 conference is “Responding to Global Changes – Water in an Urbanising World". The World Water Week in Stockholm is the annual meeting place for the planet’s most urgent water-related issues.

Topics: - The microeconomics of exchange rate pass through into import prices - The transmission of import prices to prices at the retail level - The globalization of the inflationary process, and the global slack hypothesis - The nature of optimal monetary policy in a more open economy -...

Papers on any risk or insurance related topic are welcome. Specific subject areas include, but are not limited to, finance, economics, risk management, insurance law or regulation, public policy, health care, international issues, retirement, or employee benefits.

Topics: - Health and time use - Parenting and child care - Time poverty - GPS and Tracking - Eating and health - Children's time use - Surveys in Developing Countries - Leisure - Well-being of carers - Travel - Location and Travel - Gendered time use - Health in rural environments - Household...

This workshop will provide a forum for empirical researchers in the fields of health, education, and labor economics or related disciplines to discuss these issues. We are especially interested in the relationships between health and human capital. Health is a crucial determinant of the...

The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey is a household-based panel study which began in 2001. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of research based on the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. Attendance at the...

We invite social scientists to contribute to the conference. Papers should focus on one of the following topics regarding social stratification: - Early childhood and pre-school education - General secondary and tertiary education - Vocational education and lifelong learning - Labour markets and...

The Conference will explore the following: - Fairness at the workplace after the crisis - Decent working conditions: regulation's dispensable ideal? - Wages, inequality and economic growth - Enforcing Decent Work Researchers from all regions and from a range of disciplines including law,...

Der Workshop bietet ein interdisziplinäres Forum zur Präsentation und Diskussion von Befunden zu den Themen: - Sparen und Alterssicherung nach der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise - Soziale Ungleichheit unter Berücksichtigung von Morbidität und Mortalität - Einkommensverteilung, -volatilität...