Learning goal and objectives: Due to globalization and higher international trade volumes there is an increasing trend in management research to conduct cross-cultural, cross-national and cross-disciplinary studies. Methods and methodology for comparative studies, however, require special...

Topics: - Changes in the demand for long-term care; - Healthcare expenditures associated with long-term care; - Funding systems (including international comparisons); - The consequences of informal care on caregivers (e.g., health and employment); - Policies to cope with the increasing demand for...

Key Topics: Gender and social inclusion; Gender and ICT; Gender and education; Gender and democracy; Gender equality; Gender in the workplace; Women’s empowerment in science and in other areas; Feminist studies; Men and masculinities; Gender and small and medium sized enterprises; Gender and...

RC28 general objectives are to promote high quality research on social stratification and social mobility, and the international exchange of scientific information in this field. We aim to organise the meeting in hybrid model, where participation in both online and in person are possible. We...

Mobility is a key problem in Economic and Social History. Regardless of the period under analysis, people circulate, carrying with them commodities, capital, ideas, languages, traditions. They circulate to survive, to trade, to explore, to conquer, to migrate, and also for leisure. These...

The IWSEA provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of topics related with population ageing, one of the most important social transformations of our times. Research on ageing transcends disciplinary boundaries and this is reflected in the multiple dimensions covered in the workshop....

The UACES Annual Conference in contemporary European Studies offers an important interdisciplinary forum for researchers in Political Science, Economics, Law, Geography, History, Public Policy and Sociology.

Gender as an analytical tool has been increasingly used by historians in the last few decades in a wide range of domains. The aspects of social and economic history where the gender dimension is relevant are numerous: assessment of social functions, different patterns of insertion in the labour...

Original papers subject to high academic standards and preferably with important policy or practical implications are invited, for example, on the following topics, though not restricted to them: - The growth an business cycle effects of shifting demographics - Demographics and the financial...

European countries have transformed. Fiscal consolidation, the 2008 financial collapse, demographic changes, the refugee crisis, social movements, unemployment, and new political forces are all a threat to social dialogue, solidarity and the European project. Social policy has played a key role...