This year's focus: Digitalization drives Mobility. The term mobility has different meanings in the following science disciplines. In economics, mobility is the ability of an individual or a group to improve their economic status in relation to income and wealth within their lifetime or between...

Das WSI-Herbstforum 2021 s erörtert, ob und wie Solidarität die Gestaltung der Post-Corona-Gesellschaft prägt: Ist die Gesellschaft durch Corona gleicher oder ungleicher geworden? Welche Faktoren haben die Entwicklungen beeinflusst? Mit welchen sozialstaatlichen Instrumenten soll Arbeit...

Topics: Labor market inequality; Family relations; Gender inequality; Cognitive and noncognitive skills; Educational inequality; Work-life interferences; Well-being; Civic and democratic participation. Research on the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is particularly welcome.

The Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution (PolEcCon) Summer School 2021 is aimed at young researchers in the early stage of their careers as PhD students and Postdocs, notably in the fields of Economics and Political Science. The School provides research-oriented lectures by senior...

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,...

This conference aims to cover several important dimensions of workforce heterogeneity (nationality, cultural background, skill and occupational dimensions, gender, and age structure), high-lighted from various perspectives and disciplines. The focus will be on the impact of diversity on...

Christopher Wildeman will show how descriptive methods - especially life tables - and several types of tests for individual-level effects can help us understand consequences of social inequality. These descriptive methods are simple yet underutilized. To illustrate this method, he constructs a...

In the 2012 Conference, we plan to address the following topics: - The Euro-Crisis - Restructuring the State: Welfare and Austerity, Parliaments and Executive Decision-making - Economic Democracy - Inequality and Democracy - Crisis Management, Elite Disorientation - International Relations: New...

The conference will include invited lectures, topic-related invited sessions, parallel sessions and poster sessions. EALE and IZA invite all labor economists to submit papers for presentation at the EALE Conference in Bonn.

The debate about an unconditional basic income has attracted public attention in a number of countries in recent years. Financial, debt, and ecological crises are causing growing numbers of people to look for political alternatives to the existing economy and the way income is distributed within...