The Social Situation Monitor (SSM) team welcomes researchers, analysts and policy-makers to discuss the issue of social convergence in Europe during a research seminar which will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Brussels, on Monday 26 November (1-5pm). Presentations: “Convergence in living standards: what do we know?” Speaker: Antonio Savoia, Senior Lecturer in Development Economics, University of Manchester “Convergence towards a Dual Earner Model? Contrasting changes in family-related attitudes and family policies across Europe” Speaker: Dirk Hofäcker, Professor for Methods of Quantitative Social Research, University of Duisburg-Essen. “Looking Back to Convergence Trends and Inequality Developments in Central- and Eastern Europe: Almost Three Decades After the Transition” Speaker: Márton Medgyesi, Senior researcher, TARKI Social Research Institute, Budapest “Institutional divergence and the stability of a two-speed Euro area” Speaker: Salvador Pérez-Moreno, Associate Professor of Economic Policy, University of Malaga Information and registration: This event has limited availability. For more information and to request a ticket, please visit: http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=89&newsId=9194&furtherNews=yes ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the EUROPEAN-SOCIAL-POLICY list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=EUROPEAN-SOCIAL-POLICY&A=1