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...

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.

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...

The 1st User Conference of the PASS panel survey aims at bringing together researchers from sociology, economics and survey methodology and fostering exchange between data users of the PASS panel survey. Papers should be based on data from the PASS panel survey. They may address research...

Der Workshop hat die Diskussion von Modellansätzen und -ergebnissen zu aktuellen Fragen des Stromsektordesigns zum Ziel. Dabei sollen sowohl konzeptionelle Fragen der Modellierung als auch relevante empirische Probleme (Daten, Ergebnisinterpretationen, etc.) behandelt werden. Zu jedem...

Programm (Überblick): - Finanzierung der Energiewende: Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze - Problemlage aus Sicht der Gewerkschaften - Problemlage aus Sicht der Energiewirtschaft - Umsetzungsbeispiele aus der Praxis - Podiumsdiskussion „Rahmenbedingungen und Finanzierungsmodelle für den...

Datalab2012 ist eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung des Ständigen Ausschusses Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (FDI) des Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD), des Arbeitsbereichs V der Fakultät für Soziologie der Universität Bielefeld und des Sonderforschungsbereich 882 „Von...