The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for the leading experts in economics and political science to meet and to exchange ideas and research results about redistribution.

Programme: - Keynote Speech: Lower Social Mobility: The Long-run Cost of Higher Inequality; Maurizio Franzini, University of Rome "La Sapienza" - Crisis, Response and Distributional Impact: The Case of Ireland; Tim Callan, ESRI - Inequality in Germany; Gerhard Bosch, University of...

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of research based on the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. Attendance at the conference is open to all, but should be of special interest to both users of the HILDA Survey data and persons with an...

A hands-on introductory HILDA Survey training course will be held on 30 September – 2 October 2013 at the University of Melbourne, just before the HILDA Survey Research Conference on 3-4 October 2013. The training will then cover the following topics: - Accessing the data - Finding the right...

Programm: - Stefan Bach, Martin Beznoska, Viktor Steiner (DIW and FU Berlin) "Distributional Effects of Indirect/Direct Tax Reforms“ - Rolf Aaberge “The Distributional Impact of Public Services in European Countries” - Andre Decoster „How much inequality can we explain? The role of...

List of Themes: - Family, Marriage and work - Labour Market Discrimination - Retirement - Program and Policy evaluation - Labour supply - Labour demand - Occupational choice and Intergenerational Mobility - Education, Training and Human Capital - Health - Job and Life Satisfaction - Wage...

UNU-WIDER invites interested participants to submit original research related to the two conference themes below. We are open to contributions that use rigorous research methods from economics, and other social sciences, and welcome papers that hold important implications for policy. - Measuring...

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...

The workshop offers an introduction to the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The SOEP is a survey of the population of Germany that has been conducted annually since 1984 and addresses topics such as household composition, employment and family biography, income trajectories, health, education, life...

Empirical or theoretical papers in the following areas are especially welcome: - Measurement of national income and wellbeing - Income distribution - Inequality (of income, wealth, education or opportunities) - Poverty - Socioeconomic mobility - Definition and measurement of the middle class -...