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Sustainable Welfare and Sustainable Growth – Final Conference 3/4 April 2009
As our research programme 'Sustainable Growth and Sustainable Welfare'
funded by the Anglo-German Foundation within their research initiative
'Creating Sustainable Growth in Europe' is coming to an end we would like to
invite you to our final conference on the 3rd and 4th April 2009 in Edinburgh.
Programme:
Friday, 3 April 2009
Introduction
Welfare values
Fairness and Social Provision (Peter Taylor-Gooby & Rose Martin; discussant:
Tania Burchardt)
Challenges of Ethnic Diversity. Results from a qualitative study (Steffen
Mau & Christoph Burkhardt; discussant: Holger Lengfeld)
Pensions
A new social settlement through Personal Pensions? Britain and Germany
compared (Michaela Willert; discussant: Karen Anderson)
Between the market and the state: companies, occupational pensions and
regulatory welfare in Britain and Germany (Traute Meyer & Paul Bridgen;
discussant: John Hills)
Saturday, 4 April 2009
Families
Increasing returns: The new economy of family policy in Britain and Germany
(Ann-Kathrin Jüttner, Anneli Rüling & Sigrid Leitner; discussant: Ute Klammer)
Employers and Family Policies in Advanced Market Economies (Timo
Fleckenstein & Martin Seeleib-Kaiser; discussant: Lisa Warth)
Family Policy – Striving for Sustainability (Mary Daly; discussant: Trudie
Knijn)
Conclusion
There is no conference fee. If you would like to attend please register by
emailing [log in to unmask] by the 15th February 2009. There is a limited
number of rooms available at Ten Hill Place Hotel, Edinburgh on a first come
first served basis. Requests can be sent to [log in to unmask]
until the 20th February quoting 'U of E School of Social and Political
Science, 2-3 April 2009'. For further information please refer to our
website at www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk/swsg
With kind regards
Jochen Clasen and Jannis Johann
(Programme Coordination)
University of Edinburgh
School of Social and Political Science
Chrystal Macmillan Building
15A George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LD
UK
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