The theme for the ESPAnet 2015 conference is “The lost and new worlds of welfare”. The conference invites proposals for streams and papers that address issues across the full range of comparative welfare state research, from various disciplinary perspectives. Suggestions for Stream Themes -...

The conference will be organized in sessions. Moreover, in the afternoon of Thursday, 25 September there will be a pre-conference workshop on “METHODOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN NEURO-ECONOMICS” with Antonio Rangel, Chris Frith, and Josh Skewes.

The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers in the field of Personnel Economics who are interested in the organisation of firms and human resource management in a global context. Topics: - Personnel policies in multinational companies - Cross-country differences in incentive...

The organizers welcome proposals for exciting papers that deal with welfare and the welfare state in a broad historical and contemporary perspective from disciplines such as sociology, history, social policy, political science, political philosophy etc. Papers can be both theoretical and...