The aim of the Conference is to develop the nexus between labour market issues and environmental issues. While the Conference will integrate the various themes to accomodate all interests we will program papers that would be normally applicable to the 11th National Conference on Unemployment/6th...

Recent decades have seen a significant increase in the participation of women in the labor market in a number of European countries. As a result there have been a growing number of papers examining these changes within countries. However, there have been many fewer papers examining the...

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How can universities respond to these major challenges, become more entrepreneurial, stimulate innovation, produce and transfer knowledge to society, and contribute to local and regional socio-economic growth while at the same time be competitive at the global level. Can some respond more easily...

The free market offers almost limitless choices in everything from what we eat, to the books we read, to the vehicles we drive. It's constantly at work, providing ever broadening opportunities for us to increase our happiness and realize our dreams. Yet, when it comes to American elementary and...

The 2004 IMHE General Conference will focus on some of the challenges faced by higher education in today’s' "knowledge society". Higher education institutions must respond to new funding and governance mechanisms, questions of access and equity, an increasing client base, new and developing...

The conference, jointly organized by CESifo and the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) of Harvard University, will focus on the possible equity-efficiency tradeoff in education, with a special focus on the role of school systems for human capital formation in the global economy.