This conference will take the form of two inter-related and sequential workshops on Pension Taxation, Population Ageing, and Globalisation, organised jointly by CEPAR and CESifo. The first workshop will be a 2-day event in Sydney on November 17-18 2014, at which first drafts of selected papers...

This conference aims to identify the linkages between social stratification and mobility with social policy and welfare states. It looks for questions and answers that lie at the intersection of stratification and policy. For example: Does social policy enable or inhibit social mobility? Do...