Rising costs of living and the lack of affordable housing have brought social inequalities back to the centre of political debates in many countries. Large, high quality survey and register data provide social scientists with a solid foundation to explore topics in inequality research and to...

This interdisciplinary conference aims at bringing together junior and senior researchers to present and discuss their ongoing research on inequalities in outcomes such as education, health, occupation, income, or wealth.

This two-day conference (starting at Thursday noon and ending on Friday afternoon) seeks to bring together researchers addressing different aspects of social policy, e.g. migration and integration, unemployment insurance, welfare system, pension policy, education policy, family policy, and...

Die Tagung wird sowohl Beiträge zum Kernthema enthalten als auch einen offenen Teil mit Sektionen, deren Themen nicht vorgegeben sind. Das Kernthema lautet "Verteilung und Teilhabe: Konflikte in polarisierten Gesellschaften". Die Verteilung knapper Ressourcen geht mit wirtschaftlicher...

European welfare states are at the center of various crises. In contrast to earlier decades, current crises are often not crises of the welfare state, but rather exogenous developments that affect social policy making and/or need to be addressed by social policy measures. These developments...

Die sozialwissenschaftliche Promotionswerkstatt Rhein-Ruhr richtet sich an Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden aus sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen sowie angrenzenden Fächern, die an einer Dissertation mit Bezug zu mindestens einem der folgenden Themenfelder arbeiten: Arbeit, Arbeitsmarkt,...

The workshop provides an opportunity for graduate students to present their ongoing work in the field of theoretical and empirical labor market research and receive feedback from leading scholars in the discipline. Topics: - Labor supply, labor demand and unemployment ; - Evaluation of labor...

Wie könnte aktuell eine zukunftsfähige und geschlechtergerechte soziale Sicherung gestaltet werden? Wie sollten die verschiedenen Säulen der Sozialversicherung ausgestaltet werden, damit sie das Ziel der Zukunftsfähigkeit und Geschlechtergerechtigkeit unterstützen? Welche Umgestaltungen...

The summer school aims at providing an introduction to Keynesian macroeconomics and to the problems of European economic policies to interested graduate students (MA and PhD) and junior researchers. It will consist of overview lectures, a panel discussion, student study groups, an SFC lab, and a...

The theme of the conference and keynote speeches will be "Digitalization and its consequences at the individual and distributional level". We particularly welcome contributions examining the economic, political, psychological, and social consequences of technological change and digitalization at...