An in-person conference, with hybrid access. The current pandemic has brought attention to the need for international cooperation to help mitigate the impact of the pandemic and produce an inclusive recovery. The far-reaching consequences of COVID-19 on local, national, and global economies have...

Family structures in all industrial and post-industrial societies are changing rapidly, as is the economic security that is granted or can be granted within families. Social security systems are challenged to react to these changes, for they shape current developments and also set the course for...

The conference theme is: Inequality over the life course. We also welcome submissions on all relevant areas of sociological research, notably the labour market, education, gender, the family, migration and ethnicity, urban and spatial inequalities, political sociology, health and well-being,...

Universal Child Grants (UCG) are increasingly discussed as a policy instrument to achieve universal social protection and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The conference organisers invite research paper proposals based on evidence from the implementation of cash transfers...

The 16th annual conference of the ESPAnet will be an exciting opportunity to discuss the challenges, problems and future prospect of European welfare systems at the time of great political, economic and environmental uncertainties of the globalized world. For centuries the welfare state in...

The aim of the workshop is to discuss welfare system reforms which have been implemented during the recent financial and economic crisis of 2008/2010 and post-crisis period, and major social problems in the three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). Topics: - social policy reforms; -...

Alp-Pop brings together scholars interested in population issues across several disciplines, including demography, economics, epidemiology, political science, sociology and psychology. We welcome submissions on all population issues (e.g. population and health, migration, families and the...

Die Schweiz beschäftigt sich intensiv mit ihrer Migrationspolitik, wobei heftig über eine allfällige Eingrenzung der Zuwanderung diskutiert wird. Immer wieder werden die Einwandernden für hiesige strukturelle Probleme wie mangelnde Wohnungen, Defizite bei den Sozialversicherungen oder...

The 2012 WDA Forum will address the theme: 2022 – 10 years to shape the demographic shift! The 2012 WDA Forum will take place in a year that is particularly focused on issues related to demography and ageing. In 2012, the United Nations will assess the Madrid International Action Plan on...

We are pleased to invite papers for submission for the 7th European Workshop on ‘Labour Markets and Demographic Change’ in connection with the 8th World Demographic & Ageing Forum, 28-29 August 2012, at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The workshop focuses on economic analysis...