Aims of the conference include: - analyze the theoretical and empirical relationship between social protection, household savings and income drawing from the experiences of various countries.; - analyze the relationship of other related factors such as quality of public governance, demographic...

Contributions are welcomed on the following themes: • Health and welfare at the local and regional scale • Happiness and wellbeing: definitions and indicators • Poverty, exclusion and wellbeing • Social impacts of housing • The personal, social and financial costs of housing •...

Die geplante Konferenz soll daher die Auswirkungen des europäischen Binnenmarktes auf den Wettbewerb in Deutschland zum Gegenstand haben. Welche Auswirkungen sind für die Verbraucher zu beobachten? Schließlich ist zu fragen, wie der Binnenmarkt die Wettbewerbs- und Regulierungsbehörden...

The theme of ACR 2009 is “A World of Knowledge At the Point of Confluence.” Papers dealing with substantive, methodological, or theoretical topics in consumer research are sought for competitive paper sessions.

Contributions from economic, sociology and other sciences are welcome according to the timing, duration, frequency, sequence and impacts of daily life activities. They include all kinds of market and non-market activities with labour market aspects and unpaid work in the formal and informal...

Topics: 1. Migration from and to Central and Eastern Europe—diagnosis and interpretations. 2. The social and cultural contexts, and the consequences of differentiation and marginalisation in Central and Eastern European societies. 3. Is there a (ideal) type of Central and Eastern European...

The aim of the conference is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and research results in the field of labour economics.

Abstracts are welcome on theoretical, empirical and applied housing research but are particularly welcomed from a sociological or social sciences perspective (broadly and not in any way exhaustive: geography, political science, public policy, social policy, economics, finance, management &...

The symposium aims to bring together Economists, Psychologists, Marketing researchers and others who work on Behavioral Decision Making, either in individual or interdependent settings.

We encourage submissions of researchers and educators from diverse fields such as consumer economics, personal finance, economics, psychology, sociology, business administration, education, human development, family studies, and related fields.