We invite papers that address the changing nature of the Nordic welfare states and other European countries in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic (as an external shock) or in response to other structural and institutional changes. Both quantitative and qualitative investigations and studies...

The 17th annual ESPAnet conference in Stockholm will increase the interest to bridge research on migration, social protection and European welfare states, thus creating a solid foundation for evidence-based policymaking, not only in Sweden but also internationally. Topics: European refugee...

The theme for the 21st Uddevalla Symposium seeks new perspectives on innovation and entrepreneurship. Topics: - Firm growth and new determinants - Regional growth and regional challenges - Minorities, inclusion and discrimination - Gender issues - Geographies of innovation, resources and...

The conference will provide a robust but relaxed forum for researchers and policy makers to come together and discuss issues related to the design, financing, delivery and impact of social security. Topics. - Child Poverty and Public Policy in Anglo-Saxon Countries: - Intra-Household Allocation...

Conference Topics: - recent developments in heterogeneous-agent modeling; - the empirics of heterogeneity: micro data collection and model testing; - effects of monetary and fiscal policies in heterogeneous-agent economies; - macroeconomic drivers of inequality.

The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics will host an academic conference to bring together researchers from all fields of economics contributing to the debate about inequality, its causes and consequences for society, as well as the implications for policy. Topics: - Inequality in OECD...

The “Nordic model” and Nordic working life is often seen as unitary and grounded in very similar social democratic welfare state models. During the past decades the Nordic states, management and work organizations have encountered challenges and undergone changes. The Nordic working life...

We invite Ph.D. students from different disciplinary backgrounds both within and outside the Nordic countries to participate in discussing the development of the welfare states, their preconditions, present status and how we ought to study them. Ph.D. Students present their papers in parallel...

The seminar will be devoted to the consequences for social security of the financial and economic crisis in a changing world and will address the following questions: How has the social security sector responded? To what extent the crisis is placing an additional burden on systems’ finances?...