Suggestions for Stream Themes: 1. European Union and social policy 2. Comparative methodology 3. Pensions 4. Health care 5. Labour market policy 6. Family policy 7. Social services 8. Poverty and social assistance 9. Inequalities and social policy 10. Political economy of welfare 11. Migration...

This doctoral workshop invites papers dealing theoretically, conceptually and empirically with such pressures and with the ever shifting boundary between the public and the private in contemporary European societies. Papers might explore questions such as: - Business and welfare - State...

Social economics, with its focus on social values, social interactions, and ethics, is particularly well suited to provide insightful analyses on the present state of economics as a discipline and on the state of the world economy. The international financial crisis, the European sovereign debt...

The Association for Social Economics announces an exciting Summer School workshop for graduate students and recent Ph.D.s. to be held in conjunction with the World Congress of Social Economics in Glasgow, Scotland. The Summer School brings together a small group of fellows to discuss the central...

Topics: - Health and time use - Parenting and child care - Time poverty - GPS and Tracking - Eating and health - Children's time use - Surveys in Developing Countries - Leisure - Well-being of carers - Travel - Location and Travel - Gendered time use - Health in rural environments - Household...

Abstracts on any topic relating to child indicators would be welcomed. Papers with a comparative content are encouraged. Methodological papers would be received with pleasure. We hope to organise themed parallel sessions on the following subjects during the conference: - National and...