Topics: - Social Policy challenging change: radical, resistant, resolute - Welfare reform - Welfare policy and politics - Austerity and Social Policy - Family policy and politics - Devolution, Governance and Citizenship - Race, Ethnicity & Migration - Current Political Landscape and Social...

Conference themes: - The political and economic map of the UK - The future of the European political economy - Shifting economic power in the early 21st century - The growing environmental and climate crisis - The political economy of welfare

The Conference provides a forum for the dissemination of student research relating to issues of Globalisation and Economic Policy from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. These areas include Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, Innovation, Migration, Labour Market Adjustment, the Economic...

The Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (NIBS) is hosting an interdisciplinary international conference on 'Assessing well-being when preferences are incoherent'. Economists have always been concerned not only with description and prediction, but also with the evaluation of alternative...

Alp-Pop brings together scholars interested in population issues across several disciplines, including demography, economics, epidemiology, political science, sociology and psychology. We welcome submissions on all population issues (e.g. population and health, migration, families and the...

Topics: - The causality relationship between health and happiness - Health and happiness in hardship - Interpersonal relationships and health/happiness - Disability, health shocks and happiness - Lifestyle, health and happiness - Social inequalities and their impact on health and happiness - The...

After the financial crash of 2008, much of the world’s population lost their faith in markets and capitalism has been unfairly portrayed as an enemy of the poor. Think will bring together some of the best speakers in the world to explain why this isn’t the case, and to highlight how the...

The 2015 SASE Annual Meeting seeks contributions that explore inequality, its structure, its sources, its ideological legitimations, and its politics. In keeping with SASE’s comparative and international perspective, contributions that examine these issues locally, regionally, nationally, and...

We welcome empirical papers about any aspect of inequality in economic outcomes (household income, consumption, wealth, earnings, employment) in developed societies, and papers that assess how welfare states are responding, or might respond.

The conference organizers welcome submissions of a theoretical or empirical nature. Relevant topics: - The interactions between aggregate demand and the labor market; jobless recoveries; and the macroeconomic implications of long-term unemployment. - Macroeconomic policies in times of a crisis;...