This workshop explores life-course influences on the different aspects of retirement. Example topics are: - how working careers influence retirement age and pensions, - how childhood living conditions influence health and well-being after retirement, - how cumulative (dis)advantages shape social...

In which ways do labour market flexibilisation and subsequent life-course effects challenge pension provision and how do pension systems respond to such challenges? The one-day conference, organized by the Finnish Centre for Pensions, will bring together top researchers and professionals to...

The aim of this workshop is to bring historians, social scientists and health professionals together to discuss these emerging trends. What’s new about this recent articulation of wellbeing and happiness, if anything at all, and why now? We hope that these openly formulated questions may...

The insights of behavioural economics have begun to be applied to development economics and in particular to the behaviour of poor households in poor economies. Does poverty promote departures from the standard text book model of rational choice? Do such departures in turn promote poverty and...

This ESPAnet Conference in September 2008 thus looks forward into the global future of cross-border influences in social policy, but also analyzes the earlier experience of diffusion of social policy ideas. The conference offers a forum for debating policy learning, and lessons and evidence from...

The programme consists of lectures presented by staff members, presentations by doctoral students and discussion on their research plans.

The themes of the Eleventh Annual Conference are: - Globalization and economies in transition; - Development, poverty and vulnerability; - Energy and environment; and - Wealth, aging and income distribution