In diesem Jahr möchten wir das 70-jährige Bestehen des Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Instituts der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung im Rahmen des WSI-Herbstforums feierlich begehen. Wir wollen unser Jubiläum dazu nutzen, einen Blick auf die Geschichte des WSI zu werfen. Vor allem möchten...

Themes: - Psychology and Well-being (Cultural perspectives of well-being; Antecedents and indicators of well-being; Measurement of well-being; Positive and negative emotions; Positive psychology interventions; Flourishing), - Communication and Well-being (Cyberwellness; Media and society; Health...

The conference is devoted to the exploration of the interrelationships between socio-economic processes and human beings as biological organisms. Contributions in auxology, anthropometry, biocultural anthropology, demography, development economics, economic history, epidemiology, health...

We are pleased to announce a two-day workshop on the use of subjective survey data for empirical research. The purpose is to bring together international scholars who apply empirical methods to analyse subjective variables as outcomes or determinants in the context of labour market issues....

The topic of the conference is “Social Security and the changing concept of work”. Both pension schemes and most other social security schemes as we know them are financed by contributions that are levied on salary from work, and / or income from self employment. The sustainability of the...

A growing number of people in Europe are no longer capable of financing their everyday expenses, neither from their earned income nor from a public transfer income. In reaction, an also rapidly growing number of new initiatives have been established: like food pantries and clothing distribution...

Topics: - Education, health and welfare policies - Long-run consequences of early investments - Welfare and family arrangements - Unintended consequences of welfare policies - Cognitive and non-cognitive skills - Intergenerational transmission of poverty

Conference Sessions: Session 1: Globalization, Growth and Jobs Session 2: The Great Recession and the Middle Class Session 3: Dealing with Non-Market Services Session 4: Accounting for Natural Resources Session 5: Measurement of Household Wealth Session 6: Economic Change and its Impact on...

In this conference we wish to explore the diverse links between international migration and social inequality, in a Nordic, European and global context. We invite scholars from across disciplinary boundaries to engage in a discussion of how these changes can be conceptualized and studied, from a...

The conference provides researchers who use the SOEP with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other researchers familiar with SOEP data. Researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, geography, political science, public health, psychology and sociology) who use...