The theme of the conference and keynote speeches will be "Digitalization and its consequences at the individual and distributional level". We particularly welcome contributions examining the economic, political, psychological, and social consequences of technological change and digitalization at...

The workshop aims to bring together researchers in the fields of quantitative and empirical macroeconomics with a special focus on income dynamics and the family. Topics shall include income dynamics, within-household insurance mechanisms against individual income risk, household formation,...

The conference organizers welcome submissions on any topic related to the general theme of economic behavior and inequality, including but not limited to: - Formation of inequality in various key outcomes and the role of economic behavior; - Role of heterogeneity and biases in behavior and...

Topics: - Theories that can help identify key drivers of the observed joint dynamics of growth and inequality; - Comparative analysis of structural change across developed economies and its consequence for growth and inequality; - The role of policies, such as wage compression, retraining, and...

Sozialstrukturanalyse und empirische Studien zu sozialer Ungleichheit basieren mehrheitlich auf quantitativen Daten und Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung. Angesichts des Einflusses vonKlassen- und Schichtanalysen ist dies wenig erstaunlich, streben diese doch verallgemeinerbare Aussagen...

The SBCA Executive Committee has decided that the SBCA 2022 Annual Conference will be held online March 17-18 and 21-22, 2022. This year's conference theme is “Analyzing Distributional Consequences and Equity in Benefit-Cost Analysis.” Several plenary speakers will focus on the question of...

Arranged around the theme "Policy Options for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth," the conference will assess the global pandemic and economic recovery and the mounting pressures on labor markets, supply chains, and price levels, as well as enduring challenges including economic inequality, fiscal...

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,...

Does income inequality affect banks' credit-risk reallocation when facing financial distress? Using novel branch-level data on Colombian banks I find that facing a large liquidity shock, exposed banks shift more credit towards low-risk borrowers in municipalities with higher income inequality....

We encourage submissions on any aspect of the pandemic including, for example, measuring its effects and the social and economic disruptions that it has and will create: discrimination and a possible sharpening of inequities, and the differential vulnerability or resilience of specific groups...