All over 2010, the World Social Forum process will take place in a decentralized manner with events and activities across the globe. The main objective of the events will be to sum up, from the analyzes and experiences of global civil society social movements and organizations, proposals to face...

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 Themen der Panels: Panel 1: Nach dem Rheinischen Kapitalismus? Ökonomishce Ressourcen und institutionelle Bedingungen für Teilhabe Panel 2: Sozial ist, was Arbeit schafft? Teilhabemuster im Umbruch und neue Unsicherheiten Panel 3: Bevölkerungspolitik oder Gesellschaftspolitik?...

The conference will be organized around a number of themes on the following broad issues: 1. Innovation, education, health, inequality and development 2. Population dynamics, gender equity, migration and development 3. Agriculture, fishing, biofuel, energy systems, water supply, transport,...

The 2nd International CIRIEC Research Conference will focus on the developments within the theme “The Social Economy in a world facing a global crisis”. During the two conference days, researchers and practitioners from different parts of the world will come together and create new knowledge...

At the IX ISQOLS Conference in Florence, Quality of Life Studies will be seen in terms of Measures and Goals for the Progress of Societies. In this perspective, we would like that the following key questions could guide the discussion and find an answer at the conference. 1. Can we measure...

There will be two tracks, the first focussing on economic theory particularly social choice, decision/utility theory, experimental work and economic theory in philosophy. The second track will cover particularly subfields where human welfare is particularly important including health,...

The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labour economics, public economics, demography, and health economics. Examples of research topics are: human capital investment, gender...

Sessions will be mostly dedicated to topics such as quality of life, inequality and poverty, politics and attitudes, family life, health, labour market and education. There will be additional sessions on methodological issues in survey research and data analysis.

We invite papers or research ideas presenting empirical evidence within applied micro economics and program evaluation. Relevant topics include (but are not restricted to): returns to education; the effects of welfare reforms; the efficacy of job training programs; social security and the effect...