As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect lives around the world, it is becoming clear that the pandemic and its economic fallout are having a regressive effect on gender equality. Sociologist Jutta Allmendinger recently claimed the pandemic will set Germany back 30 years in terms of the...

Organized around the theme "Policy Challenges Post COVID," the 37th NABE Economic Policy Conference will focus on the tests for policymakers in the wake of COVID-19, including immediate needs to vaccinate the world’s population, promote economic stability and job growth, and restore global...

The ISA Executive Committee has decided that the IV ISA Forum of Sociology will be held online. Conference theme: "Challenges of the 21st Century: Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality" The ISA Forum will provide sociological analyses of these four global challenges paying...

Conference programme: - Childless Aristocrats. Inheritance and the extensive margin of fertility; - Electricity and Firm Productivity: A General-Equilibrium Approach; - Can Redistribution Lead to Economic Development?

The ONLINE Winter School on ‘Recent advances in poverty and inequality research’, organised by LISER, aims at advancing knowledge and expertise of early career researchers and PhD students in some of the most recent developments in the field of poverty and inequality research. In particular,...

Program: 1. Decolonizing Economics: A Guide to Theory and Practice; 2. Labor Policy & Visions for the Green New Deal; 3. 23rd Annual David Gordon Memorial Lecture; 4. Racialized and Gendered Impacts of COVID-19; 5. The Political Economy of China: Institutions, Policies, and Role in the Global...

The RIDGE forums aim at the spreading of high quality research in economics by bringing together prestigious researchers working on the frontier of knowledge to local and regional researchers and policymakers.

The aim of the course is to give an in-depth overview of the current state and contribution of Responsible Organising research on social inequalities. At the core of Responsible Organising (RO) is research on how different actors are organising for transformative action towards sustainability,...

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...

For this year, the Board has decided to organize a virtual online conference. Theme: Causes and consequences of inequality in the labour market and beyond. Topics: - inequality in the labour market and discrimination across various dimensions: gender, age, geographical residence, ethnicity,...