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Dear colleagues, PhD students, social policy researchers and professors,
The 15th edition of the ESPANET annual conference is taking place in the lovely city of Lisbon, next September!
We invite abstract submissions for the following stream:
2017 ESPAnet Conference - Stream 26: Minimum Income Standards and Reference Budgets: national experiences
14th-16th September 2017, Lisbon, Portugal
Income adequacy is one of the aims of social protection in the EU, and to reach minimum resources aiming at human dignity is the objective of the minimum income policies in the EU countries. But human dignity translates into different criteria among countries to be expressed in national currencies. EUROSTAT poverty thresholds have no normative content, just being a statistical driven monetary amount. But most of the EU countries have constructed reference budgets to estimate the minimum adequate income for different household types.
European academics are invited to present and discuss national experiences to construct reference budgets aiming at this purpose, the underlying /implicit concept of human dignity on them, and the use that is made of such budget in the policy formulation and monitoring of social protection ruling in their countries. Case studies are welcome to support a discussion on the contribution of research to open-up new horizon for social policy in Europe and across countries.
Stream conveners:
• Maria Inês AMARO, CIES, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon ([log in to unmask])
• Francisco NUNES, UECE, ISEG-University of Lisbon ([log in to unmask])
Dealine 15 March 2017
Full conference details can be found at: ESPAnet Conference 2017 site:
http://espanetlisbon2017.eu/
We enthusiastically expect for your submissions and kindly ask you to forward this invitation to whom may be interested.
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