The twelfth ESPAnet Italy annual conference aims to shed light on the complex intertwining of politics and policy, scales, and opening and closures in welfare transformation, that may increase inequalities. La conferenza annuale di ESPAnet Italia intende accendere i riflettori sul complesso...

The relation of poverty and inequality to environmental hazards and changes are complex and important, and this workshop aims to motivate high-quality research on these links. A (non-exhaustive) list of keywords for possible contributions are: - Natural disasters, weather, or climate and the...

The Spring school is targeted to PHD students and post-doc researchers from all over Europe. The activity will improve the exchange of knowledge between leading scholars and your doctoral students who have the opportunity to collect information and new analytical/theoretical/methodological...

Sustainability is often referred to as a major objective to be respected by social policy makers. Yet, what is to be understood by this principle? Is there something as a common understanding of the principle of sustainability, valid across various disciplines, in a cross-national setting and...

Topics: - Financial sustainability and adequacy of social protection systems, – Advocating rights for “invisibles”, – Role, competences, and training of social workers in the face of current emergences, – Globalization and changing labour markets and labour rights, – Social...

The patterns of labour market participation have recently started to diverge across advanced economies, reflecting structural and demographic factors as well as the long term legacies of the Great Recession, whose impact has been felt differently across countries. A full understanding of labour...

The aim of the conference is to bring together policy makers and researchers to discuss developments in counterfactual methods applied to the impact evaluation of policy interventions, with a focus on EU employment and social policies.

The aim of the 2015 ESPAnet Italy’s eighth conference is to integrate the historical analysis of Italian social policies with the cross-sectional comparison of new welfare systems emerging both in Europe and throughout the world. The idea underlying the conference consists of historically...

The aim is to discuss developments in Counterfactual methods applied to the Impact Evaluation of policy interventions, with a focus on employment, social and education policies. This is in line with the emphasis on evidence-based policy-making in the EU 2014-20 programming period. The main...

Among the main questions to be addressed are: - Financing new infrastructures in the international debt and post-financial crisis era - Global comparison of different infrastructure roll-out and maintenance approaches including historical analysis - Analysing regulatory barriers to collaboration...