The conference will assess current welfare statistics and demonstrate the relevance of these figures to existing and future welfare practices and reforms. Topics covered will include ageing and aged care, children, youth and families, welfare expenditure, labour force, housing and homelessness.

The theme of the ACR 2007 conference is “Building Bridges.” Over the past few years, our field has evolved, grown and consequently clustered into different sub-groups based on theoretical paradigms, methodological interests, substantive applications, and geographies. In addition, the number...

The aim of the conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields in Labour Economics.

The objective of the conference is to further our understanding from an empirical perspective of developments in China and other transition economies (e.g. Russia, CIS, Eastern Europe, Vietnam) in the areas of the measurement of growth, productivity and other macroeconomic aggregates, as well as...

This session will focus on the role that families, and modeling households in more detail than what is standard in macroeconomics, play in determining aggregate outcomes. This includes, but is not limited to, issues related to fertility, marriage and divorce, female labor supply, home...

Courses: 1- Topics in Experimental and Behavioral Economics 2- New Development in International Trade and Investment 3- Survival Analysis 4- Simulation and the Bootstrap

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of research based on the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. Attendance at the conference is open to all persons interested in the HILDA Survey and longitudinal survey research.

Topics: Regional effects of globalization • Clustering and agglomeration • Border effects and the role of distance • Locational competition Effects of globalization on households • Consumption volatility and diversification of risk • Wage dispersion and labor market volatility •...

The theme for the 2007 conference is 'Social Policy through the Life Course: Building Community Capacity and Social Resilience'. This theme encapsulates two interrelated issues in social policy. The first concerns life-course transitions, including the diverse challenges and opportunities which...

Topics: labour economics, pensions, and related research areas (including poverty, housing and savings).