HEIRS 2018 international conference will focus on the unconventional triad of Capabilities, Happiness and Opportunities. We welcome proposals from economics, psychology, philosophy, social sciences and humanities in general. The main purpose is one of deepening our understanding of the...

Sustainability is often referred to as a major objective to be respected by social policy makers. Yet, what is to be understood by this principle? Is there something as a common understanding of the principle of sustainability, valid across various disciplines, in a cross-national setting and...

Topics: - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government, - Publicly Provided Goods • Optimal Taxation • Redistributive Effects, - Asymmetric and Private Information • Economics of Public-Private Contracts • Mechanism Design, - Public Policy Evaluations • Econometrics of Games and...

Topics: - Financial sustainability and adequacy of social protection systems, – Advocating rights for “invisibles”, – Role, competences, and training of social workers in the face of current emergences, – Globalization and changing labour markets and labour rights, – Social...

Topics: - Globalization (Sharing globalization benefits and compensate the losers; Demographic Changes, social inclusiveness and migration; Protectionism and welfare in a globalized world; Declining labor shares and technological change; Skills polarization and wages), - Trade (Trade and...

The Business Systems Laboratory International Symposia aim to address the global economic and social challenges of our times by systemic perspective; shedding the light to the several interactions between natural social and economic systems. The criticalities and the opportunities of our times...

We welcome submissions on all population issues (e.g. population and health, migration, families and the welfare state; population and economic development/institutions, well-being, etc.). We particularly encourage submissions that take a life course perspective and/or address social...