Diverging demographic developments in Europe and in developing countries create a potential for huge mutual gains from migration. At the same time, the immigration of low-skilled workers and emigration of high-skilled workers pose a challenge to the European social model. How can receiving...

The central questions of the conference therefore are: 1. In what ways do social heterogeneities and social inequalities contribute to social vulnerability to environmental and climate change and the likelihood that some people or groups are more prone to migrate than others? 2. What are the...

The focus of the conference will be on the assessment of green growth strategies. The goal is to clarify the challenges of smart and sustainable growth as well as to provide solutions. There will be an introduction to the green growth debate, given by Ottmar Edenhofer (PIK & MCC), a summary of...

The purpose of the conference is to bring together the members of the CESifo Research Network to present and discuss their ongoing research, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation between them. All CESifo research network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any...

Die nationalstaatlich verfassten Gesellschaften befinden sich spätestens seit den 1970er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts in einem tief greifenden Transformationsprozess, den viele Autoren mit den Begriffen Globalisierung und Transnationalisierung beschrieben haben. Die Veränderungen...

F.O. Licht’s World Ethanol & Biofuels is the No. 1 networking forum for the biofuels industry, attracting a cross-section of the supply chain from all over the world.

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Gene Grossman (Princeton University) Topics: - Offshoring, Outsourcing, and the Organization of Production - The Political Economy of Trade Policy - Non-Homothetic Demand and International...

Christopher Wildeman will show how descriptive methods - especially life tables - and several types of tests for individual-level effects can help us understand consequences of social inequality. These descriptive methods are simple yet underutilized. To illustrate this method, he constructs a...

Family background is an important determinant of child well-being and human capital formation. Family and educational policies play a role both in complementing and substituting for the human capital investments of families and, arguably, affect social gradients in both health and education....

This year's conference theme is "Challenges for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Energy Turnaround, Globalisation and Demography". The forum serves as a platform to discuss new ideas in this field between theory and practice. To serve this purpose, the forum on topics relating to small and...