The workshop aims to connect INCDIS expertise with knowledge from EDUC and EMPLOY on low skill and FAMNET on within-household employment. In particular, we hope to establish a useful and interesting interaction between researchers from the four themes which all show important overlap with low-wage labour market where women, party-time workers, young workers and students, and low skilled are all strongly overrepresented, where in-work poverty is concentrated, and where welfare state activities and labour-market policies are most relevant – to significantly different degrees across countries. In short, there is much to learn from intertheme and interdisciplinary cooperation as well as international comparison. The call for papers provised suggestions for topics.
Keynotes speakers to inspire this will be:
David Autor, who is a Professor at the Economics Department of MIT, Boston, and as of 1 January 2009 Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/dautor/index.htm His research interests are Human capital and earnings inequality; Labour market impacts of technological change; Contingent and intermediated work arrangements; Health, disability and labour supply; Employment protection and labour market operation. He has made interesting contributions on Job testing of minority workers; Wage inequality including polarization of the earnings distribution and the labour market; Temporary work; Computer technology and skills demand in the labour market; Minimum wage; and Wealth, income and consumption.
Janet Gornick, who is a Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is also the Director of the Luxembourg Income Study, the cross-national research centre and data archive. http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/political_science/jgornick.htm She teaches on public policy, social welfare policy, policy analysis, and policy evaluation. Most of her research concerns the effects of social policies on the economic wellbeing of families and on gender equality in the labour market. She co-authored Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment.
Gøsta Esping-Andersen, an eminent member of Equalsoc, who is a professor of Sociology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona where he directs the DEMOSOC research unit. http://www.esping-andersen.com/ His scientific work centres on life course dynamics, social stratification and comparative social policy. Among his major academic publications are numerous books, including The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism; The Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. He is currently working on a new book, How Women Changed the World.
We encourage anyone interested to come forward with her or his ideas. Participation of interested scholars from outside Equalsoc and policy makers will be encouraged.We intend to get one or more joint journal issues and/or books out of the meeting.
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