The theme of this year's Australian Social Policy Conference addresses these issues and invites papers that may address the following areas: Welfare reform; Income distribution and social inequalities; Identity and diversity; Families, work and care; Disability and mental health; Organisation and...

EU-LFS and EU-SILC are the most important official microdata for comparative social research in Europe. An increasing number of researchers use these data for a wide range of economic and social analyses. Topics addressed include e.g. the impact of the crisis on employment and unemployment,...

Topics: - Causes & depth of crises; policies, institutions & strategies to ameliorate financial crises, deep recession & un(der)employment in short & long-term; - Capital flows, banking & credit systems, financial ‘innovations’, credit markets, institutional regimes of accumulation,...