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...

Das Tagungsthema lautet: „Nachhaltige Ernährungssysteme und Landnutzungswandel".

International agricultural trade is key to improving global food security. It ensures better access to more diversified and nutritious food, especially in low-income countries, and acts as a safety net against food shortages caused by climate risks, crises, political tensions and other shocks....

The workshop aims at fostering an interdisciplinary debate involving economists, political scientists, statisticians, and other social scientists towards a better understanding of inequality. The CISEPS Workshop encourages contributions about new theoretical/methodological approaches and applied...

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,...

It is the objective of this Forum to provide an interdisciplinary and creative discussion environment that generates new ideas for innovative and multidisciplinary research. Its focus is on the analysis of the food system dynamics and interdependencies; the identification of drivers for...

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 focus of the seminar is on concepts, design, adoption and performance of greenhouse gas pricing policies and other market-based instruments in European agriculture and LULUCF. Papers that link experiences from other regions or domains (e.g., the energy sector) to useful lessons for EU...