We invite submissions of papers from PhD students who focus on the following: the drivers and obstacles to privatisation and marketisation in different national contexts and in different policy fields, including, inter alia, social services and social insurance; the effects these processes have on...

List of Themes: - Family, Marriage and work - Labour Market Discrimination - Retirement - Program and Policy evaluation - Labour supply - Labour demand - Occupational choice and Intergenerational Mobility - Education, Training and Human Capital - Health - Job and Life Satisfaction - Wage...

THEME: Crisis, Critique and Change Which crisis? Whose critique? What changes? Making the world safe for banks is only one side of the coin. The present crisis is multi-faceted. It is not just a debt crisis, but also a political and a social crisis.

We invite PhD students from different disciplinary backgrounds both within and outside the Nordic countries to participate in the discussion on the development of welfare states, their preconditions, present status and how we ought to study them.

The IAMO Forum 2013 will provide a platform for academic exchange focusing on the development of rural areas in transition economies of Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union, and Asia. We welcome contributions that discuss the consequences of demographic changes in rural areas, the structural...