Topics: - Household savings behaviour; - Occupational pension schemes; - The role of housing and home equity release products; - Risk-management and investment strategies of pension funds and insurance companies; - Bank business models, bank funding and lending; - Low interest rates and...

The first session deals with the role of direct democracy and the implications of women in politics. The second and third session focus on the persistence of elite structures after democratic transitions as well as the role of perceptions of public and religious organizations. The last set of...

Netspar stimulates innovative academic research in all disciplines in the social sciences related to aging and retirement. Topics of interest related to aging and retirement are: - Wellbeing and Welfare of Older age groups - Communication and choice - Labor market performance of older age...

Any topic relevant to STEG’s major themes: - Data and measurement related to structural transformation - Firms, frictions and spillovers, and industrial policy - Labour, home production, and structural transformation - Agricultural productivity and sectoral gaps - Trade and spatial frictions -...

Workshop Program: Session 1: International Macro and Uncertainty; Session 2: What is happening to the Phillips curve?;

Against this background, the 2020 annual conference of the Research Committee 19 (on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy) of the International Sociological Association (RC19) invites contributions that assess the changing contexts of globalization and its backlash; and analyse the impacts...

The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers from a broad range of economic disciplines to present and discuss ongoing research leveraging data sets made possible through the digitization of economic activity. The conference will have a focus on work at the intersection of...

Abschlusstagung des vom Umweltbundesamt geförderten Forschungsvorhabens „Neue Allianzen für Nachhaltigkeitspolitik: Kooperationsperspektiven umweltpolitischer Akteure mit Gewerkschaften, Sozial- und Wohlfahrtsverbänden“. Über die Veranstaltung Klimaschutz, Biodiversitätserhalt und...

The Netspar Pension day offers new insights that are presented from a large number of Netspar related research projects. This will not only be presented by senior researchers but also young researchers will get a chance to present their project to the attendees. Program: Wellbeing and Welfare;...

Speaker: Professor Dr. Thomas Straubhaar , Universität Hamburg, Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen. Prof. Dr. Thomas Straubhaar spricht im Rahmen des IWH Policy Talks über das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen. An seinen Vortrag schließt sich...