Conference discussion will be organised around the following themes: Poverty, welfare and social inequality; Communities, families and children; Digital technologies and social policy; Environment and social policy; Disability and rights; Human services; Ageing; Health and social policy;...

The PEGNet conference 2019 will provide a platform for leading development scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to reflect on the determinants, elements, impacts and linkages of effective social protection schemes. In particular, the conference will seek to provide answers to questions such...

The 17th annual ESPAnet conference in Stockholm will increase the interest to bridge research on migration, social protection and European welfare states, thus creating a solid foundation for evidence-based policymaking, not only in Sweden but also internationally. Topics: European refugee...

We invite papers that discuss these developments and related social policy changes. For example, how do we make sense of parallel processes of universalizing social policies in some fields and places, and increasingly exclusionary rhetoric of social protection in others? Given that the...

Topics: - Fiscal implications of alternative retirement income policy designs - Fiscal implications of alternative health policy designs - Implications of retirement age adjustment - Health policy and labour force participation - Life cycle analysis focused on health, ageing and retirement -...

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...

This year’s workshop will focus on challenges to the welfare state and their potential solutions. We invite submissions of theoretical and empirical papers on the evaluation of policies that affect the public sector either on the revenue or on the expenditure side. In particular, the workshop...

INPARR is a collaboration between CEPAR, the Pension Research Council at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (USA) and Netspar at Tilburg University (The Netherlands). INPARR has as its mission the promotion and advancement of high-quality social science research on pensions,...

This conference is dedicated to models and methods that explain/develop different ways to mobilize savings, to invest pension assets, to finance and manage retirement regarding demographic trends, old-age dependency risks and other tools helping a better management of financial and non-financial...

This year’s focus is on the formation of skill supply and skill demand and their consequences for educational and employment biographies. We therefore particularly welcome policy relevant contributions, both theoretical and applied, on topics such as: - Early childhood determinants of skill...